Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 742 | Normalizing Hard Things, Facing Your Biggest Threat, and Making it Fast (A Rob Solo Adventure)
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In episode 742, Rob Walling goes solo to explore normalizing doing hard things and facing your biggest threats. He also discusses a framework for founders looking to scale without cutting corners – making things work, making them right, and then making them fast.
Exit Strategy Kickstarter ends on December 12!
Topics we cover:
- (2:39) – Normalizing doing hard things
- (6:54) – The “hard things” in your startup
- (10:27) – Walking into the storm
- (16:21) – ”Make it work, make it right, make it fast”
- (22:04) – Building your “Founder Gut”
- (25:42) – Think in years, not months
Links from the Show:
- Exit Strategy: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret
- MicroConf Masterminds Applications Close on December 4th
- Rob Walling (@robwalling) | X
- Dr. Sherry Walling (@sherrywalling) | X
- The Comic Lab Podcast
- The SaaS Playbook
- The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping
- This Took 11 Years to Be An "Overnight Success" - SaaS Exit Strategy
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