Startups For the Rest of Us Transcripts

Episode 839 | The Journey Growing Help Scout to $35M ARR

Episode 838 | 6 Key Takeaways From a TinySeed Batch Kick-Off

Episode 837 | How Do You Learn Product? and Optimizing Your Trial Funnel (with Ruben Gamez)

Episode 836 | The 5 A.I. Moats Acquirers Value Most

Episode 835 | The Right Way to Use AI in Your Startup Marketing

Episode 834 | Eric Ries Revisits The Lean Startup and Discusses How to Become Incorruptible

Episode 833 | Success Patterns of Nobel Laureates, Developing Expertise, and From Zero to $10k (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Episode 832 | Going Full-time, When to Pivot, Building With Young Kids, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

Episode 831 | Written vs. Verbal Ad Copy, Selling Into a Low-Awareness Market, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

Episode 830 | Breaking Through Plateaus, Zero-Click Marketing, and More from MicroConf 2026 (with Derrick Reimer)

Episode 829 | AI is Bad at Product, Top 5 Startup Success Factors, and the Beastie Boys (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Episode 827 | The Founder's Guide to Selling Your SaaS for What It's Actually Worth

Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Episode 825 | Talking Tailwind CSS and Founder Fitness (with Adam Wathan)

Episode 824 | Crowded Markets, Problem Aware, A Stolen Idea, and More Listener Questions (with Jordan Gal)

Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

Episode 822 | No-code vs. A.I. Coding, SaaS Margins in the A.I. Age, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

Episode 821 | How to Do Founder-Led Marketing (with Jay Clouse)

Episode 820 | When to Quit Your Day Job, A.I. Feasibility Risk, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

Episode 819 | QSBS, Exit Multiples, How to Learn Marketing, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

Episode 818 | What Does It Take to Be Successful? with Russ Walling

Episode 817 | Bootstrapping in the Age of AI with Jason Cohen

Episode 816 | Developing an Editorial Eye, The Right Kind of Stubborn, and The Power of Focus (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Episode 815 | Unexpected Skills Your Day Job Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship (Rob Solo)

Episode 813 | SaaS Predictions for 2026 (+ Reflections on 2025)

Episode 810 | The Best A.I. Coding Stack, Shipping Fast, and More Listener Questions (With Derrick Reimer)

Episode 809 | What I Learned Diving into A.I. for 100 Days (with Craig Hewitt)

Episode 798 | Lessons From 10 Years of SaaS Growth Without a Hockey Stick

Episode 797 | TinySeed Tales s5e5: Should I Raise More Funding?

Episode 796 | Marketing Isn't Easy?, How to Grow Your Company, and Be Careful Who You Listen To (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Episode 790 | From Scrappy to Scalable: Evolving Your Role as a Founder

Episode 789 | TinySeed Tales s5e1: From Agency to SaaS

Episode 788 | Do I Need a Co-founder? And More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

Episode 787 | "We Shut Down a $1.5M Product, and Raised $10M Instead"

Episode 783 | Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to $5M ARR and an 8-Figure Exit

Episode 781 | A Founder's Regret List: 12 Mistakes I’ll Never Make Again

Episode 779 | 10 Myths Most SaaS Founders Believe

Episode 778 | Pricing Pilot Projects, Niching Down, Skipping Stairsteps, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Episode 775 | A.I. Coding Tools, User Experience, Racking Your Own Servers, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

Episode 771 | What Changes As You Grow, AI Agents, Patents, and More Listener Questions (with Craig Hewitt)

Episode 770 | Revenue vs. Profit, Asking for Permission, and Mike Tyson (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Episode 769 | Key Insights from MicroConf 2025 in New Orleans

Episode 768 | Reacting to Controversial Startup Advice

Episode 762 | Doing Great Work, Hierarchy of SaaS Skills, and Public Deadlines (A Rob Solo Adventure)

Episode 761 | TinySeed Tales s4e7: Identifying Pain Points