66: TinySeed Updates with Rob Walling
Ben and Derrick are joined by Rob Walling to share updates - their favorite part of most podcasts!
\n\nIt\u2019s been a good week in Tuple marketing land. Thanks to Ben\u2019s tweet announcing the release date for its alpha, his launch list goal was reached. He was surprised by how willing people were to help out when he asked them to do it.
\n\nRob is working on TinySeed, a startup accelerator for bootstrappers.
\n\nDerrick provided a pre-order update on Level and plans to do direct outreach to those who ordered it to determine their level of interest for validation.
\n\nToday\u2019s Topics Include:
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- Managing Mental State: Jubilation followed by fear; developers tend to turn something positive into a negative \n
- Ben\u2019s customized onboarding experience with Superhuman to be set up for success \n
- TinySeed takes a sane approach to work and build stuff that everyone can benefit from \n
- Believing in and making a big commitment to your startup; if it fails, that\u2019ll be a bummer \n
- Frequent Feedback: Know where you\u2019re going \n
- Angel investing has given Rob a specific skill set from how to pick founders/companies to being their advisor \n
- More money doesn\u2019t make you move faster, especially when it comes to SaaS startups \n
- TinySeed follows the dividends/cash for equity approach when milestones are met to align everybody; forced accountability through meetings \n
- Derrick is working on Level\u2019s onboarding flow and laying a foundation for future tutorials for users to embrace a different way of working \n
- Derrick\u2019s addressing the legal side of Level, such as privacy policies/terms of service \n
- Chat is junk food - it\u2019s a bad thing, but you still want it; Level is more like the vegetables and what you actually need \n
Links and resources:
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\n\nDerrick Reimer on Twitter
\n\nBen Orenstein Website
\n\nBen Orenstein on Twitter
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