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ROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
About. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed. I’veinvested in
ESSAYS | ROB WALLING What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade. Previously unpublished material I share from time to time. Updates on critical happenings in the startup ecosystem. Learn tactical advice from a serial entrepreneur on how to grow a non-venture track startup. Receive a 170-page book (PDF and ePub CONTACT | ROB WALLING Primary Sidebar. About Rob Walling. I've helped thousands startup founders through my books, podcasts, conference, and essays. Read more 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition. Start Reading. 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small SoftwareAcquisition.
HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their SECOND MOVER ADVANTAGE The more I thought about it, the more I realized there are a slew of advantages that you gain from being a second mover. Advantage #1: Learning From Their Mistakes. One of the largest advantages is being able to observe your competitors’ successes and failures. HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take. Code, Marketing and Money – Pick Two. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: There are three components to bringing a web startup to market: code, marketing and money. You need at least two of them to succeed. EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP Set aside $50-150/year for toner and paper. Computer – If you’re writing software you’re probably upgrading your PC every 2-3 years. Figure $1,500 for a new laptop, $700 for a desktop, give or take a few hundred. Software – If you’re one of those smart DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA.ROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
About. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed. I’veinvested in
ESSAYS | ROB WALLING What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade. Previously unpublished material I share from time to time. Updates on critical happenings in the startup ecosystem. Learn tactical advice from a serial entrepreneur on how to grow a non-venture track startup. Receive a 170-page book (PDF and ePub CONTACT | ROB WALLING Primary Sidebar. About Rob Walling. I've helped thousands startup founders through my books, podcasts, conference, and essays. Read more 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition. Start Reading. 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small SoftwareAcquisition.
HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their SECOND MOVER ADVANTAGE The more I thought about it, the more I realized there are a slew of advantages that you gain from being a second mover. Advantage #1: Learning From Their Mistakes. One of the largest advantages is being able to observe your competitors’ successes and failures. HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take. Code, Marketing and Money – Pick Two. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: There are three components to bringing a web startup to market: code, marketing and money. You need at least two of them to succeed. EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP Set aside $50-150/year for toner and paper. Computer – If you’re writing software you’re probably upgrading your PC every 2-3 years. Figure $1,500 for a new laptop, $700 for a desktop, give or take a few hundred. Software – If you’re one of those smart DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA.PRESS | ROB WALLING
Growth Hacker TV. Rob Walling, Serial Entrepreneur. Rob Walling and the Drip Pivot. Bootstrapped Web. Rob Walling Shares His Approach to Scaling a Portfolio of Startups. Rob Walling on Drip, Microconf, and the Future of Bootstrapped Startups. Chasing Product. ROADBLOCKS VS. SPEED BUMPS Obviously there are situations where a problem is an actual roadblock. This is a business-ending situation where a platform is shutting down their API or you’re being sued out of existence. While these things happen, they are much, much less common than speed bumps. Speed bumps. The tricky part about speed bumps is they masquerade as roadblocks. TRANSITIONING FROM DEVELOPER TO ENTREPRENEUR If you’ve been writing code for years you’ve likely formed opinions that don’t quite hold true in the world of entrepreneurship. This lesson covers a handful of realizations that you will come to at some point during your transition from developer to entrepreneur. Realization #1: Being a Good Technician is NotEnough.
3 EMAILS EVERY EARLY-STAGE SAAS SHOULD BE SENDING Today I’m going to show you 3 emails that can change the trajectory of your SaaS business. The emails I’m highlighting here are easy to set up and pack a punch – ideal for early-stage products. WHY FREE PLANS DON'T WORK Essays. Why Free Plans Don’t Work. The following is a guest article by Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. Everywhere I looked there were stories of USING TECHNOLOGY TO FIGHT POVERTY Grameen Foundation USA – a nonprofit organization that uses microfinance and innovative technology to fight global poverty and bring opportunities to the world’s poorest people. With tiny loans, financial services and technology, they help the poor, mostly women, start self-sustaining businesses. TELL EVERYONE YOUR STARTUP IDEA This artice is a guest post from Joel Gascoigne. Joel is is the founder of Buffer, a smarter way to share great articles with friends and followers.He Tweets at @joelgascoigne and writes regularly on his blog about startups, life, learning and happiness. I was speaking at an event last week about the lessons I’ve learned along my startup journey, mostly focused on my recent experience of SOFTWARE TRAINING SUCKS: WHY WE NEED TO ROLL IT BACK 1,000 Essays. Software Training Sucks: Why We Need to Roll it Back 1,000 Years. This article is about training, but not the typical “pay $1500 to sit in a stuffy hotel conference room for five days while some guy who hasn’t written software since Elvis reads his PowerPoint slides to you in an effort to keep you awake” training. HOW A SEEMINGLY WELL-PLANNED SERVER MOVE CRASHED, BURNED Photo by hisperati. About 8 months ago I acquired a small startup called HitTail. You can read more about the acquisition here. When the deal closed, the app was in bad shape. WHY GOOD DEVELOPERS ARE PROMOTED INTO UNHAPPINESS These are the same developers who stay late and read software books on the weekend because of their love for programming; that’s why they come through on their projects. Promoting someone who loves to write software into a position where they will write little or no software doesn’t make an ounce of sense.ROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
About. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed. I’veinvested in
ESSAYS | ROB WALLING What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade. Previously unpublished material I share from time to time. Updates on critical happenings in the startup ecosystem. Learn tactical advice from a serial entrepreneur on how to grow a non-venture track startup. Receive a 170-page book (PDF and ePub CONTACT | ROB WALLING Primary Sidebar. About Rob Walling. I've helped thousands startup founders through my books, podcasts, conference, and essays. Read more 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition. Start Reading. 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small SoftwareAcquisition.
HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their SECOND MOVER ADVANTAGE The more I thought about it, the more I realized there are a slew of advantages that you gain from being a second mover. Advantage #1: Learning From Their Mistakes. One of the largest advantages is being able to observe your competitors’ successes and failures. HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take. Code, Marketing and Money – Pick Two. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: There are three components to bringing a web startup to market: code, marketing and money. You need at least two of them to succeed. EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP Set aside $50-150/year for toner and paper. Computer – If you’re writing software you’re probably upgrading your PC every 2-3 years. Figure $1,500 for a new laptop, $700 for a desktop, give or take a few hundred. Software – If you’re one of those smart DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA.ROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
About. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed. I’veinvested in
ESSAYS | ROB WALLING What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade. Previously unpublished material I share from time to time. Updates on critical happenings in the startup ecosystem. Learn tactical advice from a serial entrepreneur on how to grow a non-venture track startup. Receive a 170-page book (PDF and ePub CONTACT | ROB WALLING Primary Sidebar. About Rob Walling. I've helped thousands startup founders through my books, podcasts, conference, and essays. Read more 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition. Start Reading. 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small SoftwareAcquisition.
HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their SECOND MOVER ADVANTAGE The more I thought about it, the more I realized there are a slew of advantages that you gain from being a second mover. Advantage #1: Learning From Their Mistakes. One of the largest advantages is being able to observe your competitors’ successes and failures. HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take. Code, Marketing and Money – Pick Two. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: There are three components to bringing a web startup to market: code, marketing and money. You need at least two of them to succeed. EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP Set aside $50-150/year for toner and paper. Computer – If you’re writing software you’re probably upgrading your PC every 2-3 years. Figure $1,500 for a new laptop, $700 for a desktop, give or take a few hundred. Software – If you’re one of those smart DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA.PRESS | ROB WALLING
Growth Hacker TV. Rob Walling, Serial Entrepreneur. Rob Walling and the Drip Pivot. Bootstrapped Web. Rob Walling Shares His Approach to Scaling a Portfolio of Startups. Rob Walling on Drip, Microconf, and the Future of Bootstrapped Startups. Chasing Product. ROADBLOCKS VS. SPEED BUMPS Obviously there are situations where a problem is an actual roadblock. This is a business-ending situation where a platform is shutting down their API or you’re being sued out of existence. While these things happen, they are much, much less common than speed bumps. Speed bumps. The tricky part about speed bumps is they masquerade as roadblocks. TRANSITIONING FROM DEVELOPER TO ENTREPRENEUR If you’ve been writing code for years you’ve likely formed opinions that don’t quite hold true in the world of entrepreneurship. This lesson covers a handful of realizations that you will come to at some point during your transition from developer to entrepreneur. Realization #1: Being a Good Technician is NotEnough.
3 EMAILS EVERY EARLY-STAGE SAAS SHOULD BE SENDING Today I’m going to show you 3 emails that can change the trajectory of your SaaS business. The emails I’m highlighting here are easy to set up and pack a punch – ideal for early-stage products. WHY FREE PLANS DON'T WORK Essays. Why Free Plans Don’t Work. The following is a guest article by Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. Everywhere I looked there were stories of USING TECHNOLOGY TO FIGHT POVERTY Grameen Foundation USA – a nonprofit organization that uses microfinance and innovative technology to fight global poverty and bring opportunities to the world’s poorest people. With tiny loans, financial services and technology, they help the poor, mostly women, start self-sustaining businesses. TELL EVERYONE YOUR STARTUP IDEA This artice is a guest post from Joel Gascoigne. Joel is is the founder of Buffer, a smarter way to share great articles with friends and followers.He Tweets at @joelgascoigne and writes regularly on his blog about startups, life, learning and happiness. I was speaking at an event last week about the lessons I’ve learned along my startup journey, mostly focused on my recent experience of SOFTWARE TRAINING SUCKS: WHY WE NEED TO ROLL IT BACK 1,000 Essays. Software Training Sucks: Why We Need to Roll it Back 1,000 Years. This article is about training, but not the typical “pay $1500 to sit in a stuffy hotel conference room for five days while some guy who hasn’t written software since Elvis reads his PowerPoint slides to you in an effort to keep you awake” training. HOW A SEEMINGLY WELL-PLANNED SERVER MOVE CRASHED, BURNED Photo by hisperati. About 8 months ago I acquired a small startup called HitTail. You can read more about the acquisition here. When the deal closed, the app was in bad shape. WHY GOOD DEVELOPERS ARE PROMOTED INTO UNHAPPINESS These are the same developers who stay late and read software books on the weekend because of their love for programming; that’s why they come through on their projects. Promoting someone who loves to write software into a position where they will write little or no software doesn’t make an ounce of sense.ROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
About. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed. I’veinvested in
ESSAYS | ROB WALLING What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade. Previously unpublished material I share from time to time. Updates on critical happenings in the startup ecosystem. Learn tactical advice from a serial entrepreneur on how to grow a non-venture track startup. Receive a 170-page book (PDF and ePub CONTACT | ROB WALLING Primary Sidebar. About Rob Walling. I've helped thousands startup founders through my books, podcasts, conference, and essays. Read more 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition. Start Reading. 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small SoftwareAcquisition.
HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their SECOND MOVER ADVANTAGE The more I thought about it, the more I realized there are a slew of advantages that you gain from being a second mover. Advantage #1: Learning From Their Mistakes. One of the largest advantages is being able to observe your competitors’ successes and failures. EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP Set aside $50-150/year for toner and paper. Computer – If you’re writing software you’re probably upgrading your PC every 2-3 years. Figure $1,500 for a new laptop, $700 for a desktop, give or take a few hundred. Software – If you’re one of those smart HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take. Code, Marketing and Money – Pick Two. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: There are three components to bringing a web startup to market: code, marketing and money. You need at least two of them to succeed. DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA.ROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
About. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed. I’veinvested in
ESSAYS | ROB WALLING What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade. Previously unpublished material I share from time to time. Updates on critical happenings in the startup ecosystem. Learn tactical advice from a serial entrepreneur on how to grow a non-venture track startup. Receive a 170-page book (PDF and ePub CONTACT | ROB WALLING Primary Sidebar. About Rob Walling. I've helped thousands startup founders through my books, podcasts, conference, and essays. Read more 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition. Start Reading. 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small SoftwareAcquisition.
HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their SECOND MOVER ADVANTAGE The more I thought about it, the more I realized there are a slew of advantages that you gain from being a second mover. Advantage #1: Learning From Their Mistakes. One of the largest advantages is being able to observe your competitors’ successes and failures. EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP Set aside $50-150/year for toner and paper. Computer – If you’re writing software you’re probably upgrading your PC every 2-3 years. Figure $1,500 for a new laptop, $700 for a desktop, give or take a few hundred. Software – If you’re one of those smart HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take. Code, Marketing and Money – Pick Two. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: There are three components to bringing a web startup to market: code, marketing and money. You need at least two of them to succeed. DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA.PRESS | ROB WALLING
Growth Hacker TV. Rob Walling, Serial Entrepreneur. Rob Walling and the Drip Pivot. Bootstrapped Web. Rob Walling Shares His Approach to Scaling a Portfolio of Startups. Rob Walling on Drip, Microconf, and the Future of Bootstrapped Startups. Chasing Product. WHAT I LEARNED BUYING, GROWING, AND SELLING MY STARTUP Essays. What I Learned Buying, Growing, and Selling My Startup. In early 2011 I was looking for my next thing. Long ago I learned that when I’m not learning I’m not happy. And in early 2011, aside from hosting our first successful MicroConf, I wasn’t doing many things that scared me. Which told me I needed a next thing. My book was ROADBLOCKS VS. SPEED BUMPS Obviously there are situations where a problem is an actual roadblock. This is a business-ending situation where a platform is shutting down their API or you’re being sued out of existence. While these things happen, they are much, much less common than speed bumps. Speed bumps. The tricky part about speed bumps is they masquerade as roadblocks. TRANSITIONING FROM DEVELOPER TO ENTREPRENEUR If you’ve been writing code for years you’ve likely formed opinions that don’t quite hold true in the world of entrepreneurship. This lesson covers a handful of realizations that you will come to at some point during your transition from developer to entrepreneur. Realization #1: Being a Good Technician is NotEnough.
THE FIVE MINUTE GUIDE TO BECOMING A FREELANCE SOFTWARE The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer. I started my .NET consulting firm with a $35 check for a business license and a drive to city hall. I didn’t worry about anything but writing code and meeting deadlines. I can’t say it was a bad way to go. Until you have someone willing to pay money for your services, the DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA. HOW TO FORCE YOURSELF TO SHIP (EVEN WHEN IT'S HARD) It’s been a week and a half since we launched Drip’s biggest feature in 18 months, called Workflows.. Had we not committed to a deadline, in public, 2-weeks prior to the ship date (when we published this post on Drip and emailed a bazillion people), I believe we’d still be adding finishing touches.. It’s scary to ship. 3 EMAILS EVERY EARLY-STAGE SAAS SHOULD BE SENDING Christoph Englehardt talks through 3 emails every early-stage SaaS company should be sending for maximum impact. WHY FREE PLANS DON'T WORK Essays. Why Free Plans Don’t Work. The following is a guest article by Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. Everywhere I looked there were stories of SOFTWARE TRAINING SUCKS: WHY WE NEED TO ROLL IT BACK 1,000 Essays. Software Training Sucks: Why We Need to Roll it Back 1,000 Years. This article is about training, but not the typical “pay $1500 to sit in a stuffy hotel conference room for five days while some guy who hasn’t written software since Elvis reads his PowerPoint slides to you in an effort to keep you awake” training.ROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
About. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed. I’veinvested in
ESSAYS | ROB WALLING What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade. Previously unpublished material I share from time to time. Updates on critical happenings in the startup ecosystem. Learn tactical advice from a serial entrepreneur on how to grow a non-venture track startup. Receive a 170-page book (PDF and ePub CONTACT | ROB WALLING Primary Sidebar. About Rob Walling. I've helped thousands startup founders through my books, podcasts, conference, and essays. Read more 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition. Start Reading. 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small SoftwareAcquisition.
HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their SECOND MOVER ADVANTAGE The more I thought about it, the more I realized there are a slew of advantages that you gain from being a second mover. Advantage #1: Learning From Their Mistakes. One of the largest advantages is being able to observe your competitors’ successes and failures. EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP Set aside $50-150/year for toner and paper. Computer – If you’re writing software you’re probably upgrading your PC every 2-3 years. Figure $1,500 for a new laptop, $700 for a desktop, give or take a few hundred. Software – If you’re one of those smart HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take. Code, Marketing and Money – Pick Two. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: There are three components to bringing a web startup to market: code, marketing and money. You need at least two of them to succeed. DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA.ROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
About. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed. I’veinvested in
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HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their SECOND MOVER ADVANTAGE The more I thought about it, the more I realized there are a slew of advantages that you gain from being a second mover. Advantage #1: Learning From Their Mistakes. One of the largest advantages is being able to observe your competitors’ successes and failures. EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP Set aside $50-150/year for toner and paper. Computer – If you’re writing software you’re probably upgrading your PC every 2-3 years. Figure $1,500 for a new laptop, $700 for a desktop, give or take a few hundred. Software – If you’re one of those smart HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take. Code, Marketing and Money – Pick Two. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: There are three components to bringing a web startup to market: code, marketing and money. You need at least two of them to succeed. DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA.PRESS | ROB WALLING
Growth Hacker TV. Rob Walling, Serial Entrepreneur. Rob Walling and the Drip Pivot. Bootstrapped Web. Rob Walling Shares His Approach to Scaling a Portfolio of Startups. Rob Walling on Drip, Microconf, and the Future of Bootstrapped Startups. Chasing Product. WHAT I LEARNED BUYING, GROWING, AND SELLING MY STARTUP Essays. What I Learned Buying, Growing, and Selling My Startup. In early 2011 I was looking for my next thing. Long ago I learned that when I’m not learning I’m not happy. And in early 2011, aside from hosting our first successful MicroConf, I wasn’t doing many things that scared me. Which told me I needed a next thing. My book was ROADBLOCKS VS. SPEED BUMPS Obviously there are situations where a problem is an actual roadblock. This is a business-ending situation where a platform is shutting down their API or you’re being sued out of existence. While these things happen, they are much, much less common than speed bumps. Speed bumps. The tricky part about speed bumps is they masquerade as roadblocks. TRANSITIONING FROM DEVELOPER TO ENTREPRENEUR If you’ve been writing code for years you’ve likely formed opinions that don’t quite hold true in the world of entrepreneurship. This lesson covers a handful of realizations that you will come to at some point during your transition from developer to entrepreneur. Realization #1: Being a Good Technician is NotEnough.
THE FIVE MINUTE GUIDE TO BECOMING A FREELANCE SOFTWARE The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer. I started my .NET consulting firm with a $35 check for a business license and a drive to city hall. I didn’t worry about anything but writing code and meeting deadlines. I can’t say it was a bad way to go. Until you have someone willing to pay money for your services, the DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA. HOW TO FORCE YOURSELF TO SHIP (EVEN WHEN IT'S HARD) It’s been a week and a half since we launched Drip’s biggest feature in 18 months, called Workflows.. Had we not committed to a deadline, in public, 2-weeks prior to the ship date (when we published this post on Drip and emailed a bazillion people), I believe we’d still be adding finishing touches.. It’s scary to ship. 3 EMAILS EVERY EARLY-STAGE SAAS SHOULD BE SENDING Christoph Englehardt talks through 3 emails every early-stage SaaS company should be sending for maximum impact. WHY FREE PLANS DON'T WORK Essays. Why Free Plans Don’t Work. The following is a guest article by Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. Everywhere I looked there were stories of SOFTWARE TRAINING SUCKS: WHY WE NEED TO ROLL IT BACK 1,000 Essays. Software Training Sucks: Why We Need to Roll it Back 1,000 Years. This article is about training, but not the typical “pay $1500 to sit in a stuffy hotel conference room for five days while some guy who hasn’t written software since Elvis reads his PowerPoint slides to you in an effort to keep you awake” training.ROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
About. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed. I’veinvested in
ESSAYS | ROB WALLING What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade. Previously unpublished material I share from time to time. Updates on critical happenings in the startup ecosystem. Learn tactical advice from a serial entrepreneur on how to grow a non-venture track startup. Receive a 170-page book (PDF and ePub CONTACT | ROB WALLING Primary Sidebar. About Rob Walling. I've helped thousands startup founders through my books, podcasts, conference, and essays. Read more 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition. Start Reading. 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small SoftwareAcquisition.
ROADBLOCKS VS. SPEED BUMPS Obviously there are situations where a problem is an actual roadblock. This is a business-ending situation where a platform is shutting down their API or you’re being sued out of existence. While these things happen, they are much, much less common than speed bumps. Speed bumps. The tricky part about speed bumps is they masquerade as roadblocks. HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take. Code, Marketing and Money – Pick Two. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: There are three components to bringing a web startup to market: code, marketing and money. You need at least two of them to succeed. DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA. EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP Set aside $50-150/year for toner and paper. Computer – If you’re writing software you’re probably upgrading your PC every 2-3 years. Figure $1,500 for a new laptop, $700 for a desktop, give or take a few hundred. Software – If you’re one of those smartROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
About. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed. I’veinvested in
ESSAYS | ROB WALLING What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade. Previously unpublished material I share from time to time. Updates on critical happenings in the startup ecosystem. Learn tactical advice from a serial entrepreneur on how to grow a non-venture track startup. Receive a 170-page book (PDF and ePub CONTACT | ROB WALLING Primary Sidebar. About Rob Walling. I've helped thousands startup founders through my books, podcasts, conference, and essays. Read more 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition. Start Reading. 3 part series. The Inside Story of a Small SoftwareAcquisition.
ROADBLOCKS VS. SPEED BUMPS Obviously there are situations where a problem is an actual roadblock. This is a business-ending situation where a platform is shutting down their API or you’re being sued out of existence. While these things happen, they are much, much less common than speed bumps. Speed bumps. The tricky part about speed bumps is they masquerade as roadblocks. HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take. Code, Marketing and Money – Pick Two. If you take nothing else away from this post, remember this: There are three components to bringing a web startup to market: code, marketing and money. You need at least two of them to succeed. DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA. EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP Set aside $50-150/year for toner and paper. Computer – If you’re writing software you’re probably upgrading your PC every 2-3 years. Figure $1,500 for a new laptop, $700 for a desktop, give or take a few hundred. Software – If you’re one of those smartPRESS | ROB WALLING
Growth Hacker TV. Rob Walling, Serial Entrepreneur. Rob Walling and the Drip Pivot. Bootstrapped Web. Rob Walling Shares His Approach to Scaling a Portfolio of Startups. Rob Walling on Drip, Microconf, and the Future of Bootstrapped Startups. Chasing Product. WHAT I LEARNED BUYING, GROWING, AND SELLING MY STARTUP Essays. What I Learned Buying, Growing, and Selling My Startup. In early 2011 I was looking for my next thing. Long ago I learned that when I’m not learning I’m not happy. And in early 2011, aside from hosting our first successful MicroConf, I wasn’t doing many things that scared me. Which told me I needed a next thing. My book was HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE FIVE MINUTE GUIDE TO BECOMING A FREELANCE SOFTWARE The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer. I started my .NET consulting firm with a $35 check for a business license and a drive to city hall. I didn’t worry about anything but writing code and meeting deadlines. I can’t say it was a bad way to go. Until you have someone willing to pay money for your services, the TRANSITIONING FROM DEVELOPER TO ENTREPRENEUR If you’ve been writing code for years you’ve likely formed opinions that don’t quite hold true in the world of entrepreneurship. This lesson covers a handful of realizations that you will come to at some point during your transition from developer to entrepreneur. Realization #1: Being a Good Technician is NotEnough.
DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL Scenario – Give the candidate a scenario: you’re developing software at an enterprise software shop. You have all the standard tools: an IDE, database, source control, unit testing suite and bug tracker. Ask the candidate to provide every step in the process of creating a “Hello World!” application and getting it into QA. 3 EMAILS EVERY EARLY-STAGE SAAS SHOULD BE SENDING Today I’m going to show you 3 emails that can change the trajectory of your SaaS business. The emails I’m highlighting here are easy to set up and pack a punch – ideal for early-stage products. SOFTWARE TRAINING SUCKS: WHY WE NEED TO ROLL IT BACK 1,000 Essays. Software Training Sucks: Why We Need to Roll it Back 1,000 Years. This article is about training, but not the typical “pay $1500 to sit in a stuffy hotel conference room for five days while some guy who hasn’t written software since Elvis reads his PowerPoint slides to you in an effort to keep you awake” training. WHY FREE PLANS DON'T WORK Essays. Why Free Plans Don’t Work. The following is a guest article by Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. Everywhere I looked there were stories of WHY GOOD DEVELOPERS ARE PROMOTED INTO UNHAPPINESS These are the same developers who stay late and read software books on the weekend because of their love for programming; that’s why they come through on their projects. Promoting someone who loves to write software into a position where they will write little or no software doesn’t make an ounce of sense.ROB WALLING
Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip.. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed.. I’ve invested in 36 startups, but I don’t believe the only way to start a SaaS company is to raise money. ESSAYS | ROB WALLING Rob Walling has written more than 100 essays on how to build, launch and grow startups without raising boatloads of venture capital. CONTACT | ROB WALLING Startup Growth Tactics. What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade; Previously unpublished material I share from time to time ROADBLOCKS VS. SPEED BUMPS Image by Tomi Lattu. I co-host a podcast that focuses on bootstrapping software startups. Last week as my co-host and I dug into some struggles he’s running into getting his product to escape velocity, I started saying a phrase I hadn’t used before: HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Startup Growth Tactics. What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade; Previously unpublished material I share from time to time DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL In Personality Traits of the Best Software Developers we looked at four key personality traits of the best corporate software developers.. One of the comments, posted by Paul Norrie, raised an important question about interviewing: How can we test for attention to detail?. Attention to Detail Someone who pays attention to detail stands less of a chance of forgetting to check their code into EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP The major expenses you don't think of when starting a new business. Most apply to any business, but a few are for software developersonly.
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Rob Walling is the serial entrepreneur behind Drip, MicroConf and TinySeed. He's host of Startups for the Rest of Us and author of "Start Small, Stay Small."ABOUT | ROB WALLING
Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold several startups, most recently Drip.. I’ve been helping non-venture backed startup founders since 2005 and now I run the first startup accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers, called TinySeed.. I’ve invested in 36 startups, but I don’t believe the only way to start a SaaS company is to raise money. ESSAYS | ROB WALLING Rob Walling has written more than 100 essays on how to build, launch and grow startups without raising boatloads of venture capital. CONTACT | ROB WALLING Startup Growth Tactics. What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade; Previously unpublished material I share from time to time ROADBLOCKS VS. SPEED BUMPS Image by Tomi Lattu. I co-host a podcast that focuses on bootstrapping software startups. Last week as my co-host and I dug into some struggles he’s running into getting his product to escape velocity, I started saying a phrase I hadn’t used before: HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE STAIR STEP APPROACH TO BOOTSTRAPPING Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the TinySeed, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). After a while, I started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their HOW TO RECRUIT A DEVELOPER ENTREPRENEUR FOR YOUR STARTUP Startup Growth Tactics. What you get for signing up: A 170-page book collecting my best essays from the past decade; Previously unpublished material I share from time to time DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL In Personality Traits of the Best Software Developers we looked at four key personality traits of the best corporate software developers.. One of the comments, posted by Paul Norrie, raised an important question about interviewing: How can we test for attention to detail?. Attention to Detail Someone who pays attention to detail stands less of a chance of forgetting to check their code into EXPENSES YOU DON'T THINK OF WHEN STARTING A STARTUP The major expenses you don't think of when starting a new business. Most apply to any business, but a few are for software developersonly.
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HOW TO BECOME A PROGRAMMER 6 Amazon.com’s website is a massive, custom piece of software called Obidos that runs on thousands of Amazon web servers all over theworld.
THE FIVE MINUTE GUIDE TO BECOMING A FREELANCE SOFTWARE An intentionally short guide to becoming a solo (freelance) software developer / programmer. Covers business structure, insurance, banking, retirement, and more. WHAT I LEARNED BUYING, GROWING, AND SELLING MY STARTUP In early 2011 I was looking for my next thing. Long ago I learned that when I’m not learning I’m not happy. And in early 2011, aside from hosting our first successful MicroConf, I wasn’t doing many thingsthat scared me.
DEVELOPER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: TESTING ATTENTION TO DETAIL In Personality Traits of the Best Software Developers we looked at four key personality traits of the best corporate software developers.. One of the comments, posted by Paul Norrie, raised an important question about interviewing: How can we test for attention to detail?. Attention to Detail Someone who pays attention to detail stands less of a chance of forgetting to check their code into TRANSITIONING FROM DEVELOPER TO ENTREPRENEUR You’ve probably realized by now that software development and entrepreneurship are two very different things. Software development is a tiny subset of the skills an entrepreneur needs to launch and operate a successful software or web startup. 3 EMAILS EVERY EARLY-STAGE SAAS SHOULD BE SENDING Today I’m going to show you 3 emails that can change the trajectory of your SaaS business. The emails I’m highlighting here are easy to set up and pack a punch – ideal for early-stage products. WHY GOOD DEVELOPERS ARE PROMOTED INTO UNHAPPINESS Rob Walling discusses why good software developers are promoted into management and then find themselves unhappy. SOFTWARE TRAINING SUCKS: WHY WE NEED TO ROLL IT BACK 1,000 This article is about training, but not the typical “pay $1500 to sit in a stuffy hotel conference room for five days while some guy who hasn’t written software since Elvis reads his PowerPoint slides to you in an effort to keep you awake” training. WHY FREE PLANS DON'T WORK The following is a guest article by Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch.. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. * Skip to primary navigation* Skip to content
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