66: TinySeed Updates with Rob Walling

Ben and Derrick are joined by Rob Walling to share updates - their favorite part of most podcasts! It’s been a good week in Tuple marketing land. Thanks to Ben’s 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. Rob is working on TinySeed, a startup accelerator for bootstrappers. Derrick 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. Today’s Topics Include: Managing Mental State: Jubilation followed by fear; developers tend to turn something positive into a negative Ben’s customized onboarding experience with Superhuman to be set up for success TinySeed takes a sane approach to work and build stuff that everyone can benefit from Believing in and making a big commitment to your startup; if it fails, that’ll be a bummer Frequent Feedback: Know where you’re going Angel investing has given Rob a specific skill set from how to pick founders/companies to being their advisor More money doesn’t make you move faster, especially when it comes to SaaS startups TinySeed follows the dividends/cash for equity approach when milestones are met to align everybody; forced accountability through meetings Derrick is working on Level’s onboarding flow and laying a foundation for future tutorials for users to embrace a different way of working Derrick’s addressing the legal side of Level, such as privacy policies/terms of service Chat is junk food - it’s a bad thing, but you still want it; Level is more like the vegetables and what you actually need Links and resources: Rob Walling Startups for the Rest of Us Drip Brian Casel Chad Fowler Superhuman Business of Software The Product Market Fit Engine Reportive TinySeed MicroConf HubSpot SparkToro Paul Graham Joanna Wiebe Snapterms Stripe Atlas Slack Art of Product on Twitter Derrick Reimer Website Derrick Reimer on Twitter Ben Orenstein Website Ben Orenstein on Twitter Level Tuple