Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 551 | Task-level vs. Project-level Thinkers, No Such Thing as an Autopilot Business, and More (A Rob Solo Adventure)


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In episode 551 of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob does another solo adventure to talk about hiring owner-level thinkers, the fallacy of an autopilot passive income software business, and more.

The topics we cover

[1:25] Hiring task-level thinkers, project-level thinkers, and owner-level thinkers

[07:43] The fallacy of an autopilot passive income software business

[15:21] Our bootstrap community

[20:45] Questions you should ask yourself when building/growing a company

Links from the show
  • FE International: Professional M&A Advisor
  • Quiet Light Brokerage
  • MicroAcquire - Startup acquisition marketplace. Free. Private. No middlemen.
  • Empire Flippers - Website Brokers
  • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
  • Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
  • If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you!

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