On today's episode of Startups For The Rest Of Us, Rob catches up with guest Derrick Reimer as they discuss shutting down a slack competitor while building and preparing to launch a new calendar SaaS. They discuss topics like user research, defining and validating an idea, choosing a big market, viral loops, and more.

The topics we cover with Derrick Reimer

2:49 Shutting down a Slack competitor
6:32 Building StaticKit to get something in the market
13:16 Developing the next idea
17:03 Validating the Mighty Cal idea
19:07 Potential dangers of going into a big competitive space
23:38 Choosing the specific customer/s to target for Mighty Cal
25:45 Built-in Viral loops

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Episode 506 | Shutting Down and Starting Up with Derrick Reimer

Startups For the Rest of Us