Rob Walling

@robwalling

Helping SaaS founders for 16 years via @startupspod. Educating and investing in startups through @microconf and @tinyseedfund. Wrote saasplaybook.com.

Minneapolis, MN

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Rob Walling
@robwalling
Aug 20, 2024
The TinySeed Millionaire Rate is 43%. Definition: Of @tinyseedfund companies no longer in operation (sold OR shut down), 43% of those founders are now millionaires.💰 This % will obviously change over time. It's still early, and the numbers are still small (~2% of companies
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Rob Walling
@robwalling
Sep 4
This.
Bryan Shankman
@BryanShankman
Sep 3
I worked as hard to close the $79 customers as I am now to close the $599 customers.
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Rob Walling
@robwalling
Sep 1
Can you sanity check demand before building a product? How about with a physical, consumer product? That answer, in this week’s episode of @startupspod 👇
Startups For the Rest of Us
@startupspod
Sep 1
Can you validate a product before it even exists? @robwalling breaks down how Liquid Death's founder validated a fake product before ever manufacturing a single can. The same mental models work for bootstrapped software. Ep 848 👇 startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episo…
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Rob Walling
@robwalling
Aug 31
One of the biggest copes I hear from solo technical founders: “I don’t need to validate it. I’m building it for myself, so even if nobody else uses it, it’s still a success.” No. If you want to build something for yourself, great. That’s a project. If you want to build a
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Rob Walling
@robwalling
Aug 24
I frequently abbreviate this sentiment as such: “Being a founder is making hard decisions with incomplete information.”
Hiten Shah
@hnshah
Aug 23
A lot of founder confidence is just making decisions before there is enough information and getting comfortable with never finding out whether the other choice was better.
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