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Rob Walling · Business

Startups For the Rest of Us

The original podcast for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped startups, this show follow the stories of founders as they start, acquire, and grow SaaS companies. Hear when they fail, struggle, succeed, and take you with them through the tumultuous life of a SaaS founder. If you like Mixergy, This Week in Startups, or SaaStr, you’ll enjoy Startup for the Rest of Us.

Episodes

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Episode 795 | TinySeed Tales s5e4: The $20K Milestone

11 Sep 2025
28m
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Episode 794 | From Struggling Side Project to Life-Changing SaaS Exit

09 Sep 2025
56m
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Episode 793 | TinySeed Tales s5e3: Building Momentum

04 Sep 2025
27m
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Episode 792 | Hot Take Tuesday: GPT-5 Struggles, the A.I. Bubble, and the Windsurf Debacle

02 Sep 2025
45m
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Episode 791 | TinySeed Tales s5e2: Growing Pains

28 Aug 2025
29m
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Episode 790 | From Scrappy to Scalable: Evolving Your Role as a Founder

26 Aug 2025
34m
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In this episode of Startups For the Rest of Us, Rob Walling interviews Yaniv Bernstein, a seasoned founder and executive, about the evolving role of a founder as their company scales. Yaniv shares his experiences from Google to early-stage startups, highlighting the critical transitions founders must make as their comp...

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Episode 789 | TinySeed Tales s5e1: From Agency to SaaS

21 Aug 2025
30m
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Episode 788 | Do I Need a Co-founder? And More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

19 Aug 2025
57m
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Episode 787 | "We Shut Down a $1.5M Product, and Raised $10M Instead"

12 Aug 2025
37m
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Episode 786 | Questions About Bootstrapping SaaS to a $90M Exit (with Kevin Wagstaff)

05 Aug 2025
44m
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Episode 785 | Choosing Between AI Products, Building Multiple Apps, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

29 Jul 2025
34m
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Episode 784 | The Wealth Ladder: Six Levels of Financial Freedom

22 Jul 2025
31m
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Episode 783 | Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to $5M ARR and an 8-Figure Exit

15 Jul 2025
40m
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Building and selling ScrapingBee, a bootstrapped web scraping API, culminated in an eight-figure all-cash exit that highlights the efficacy of focused SEO strategies and expert mentorship. Co-founder Pierre de Wulf details the transition from stagnant early growth to rapid scaling, driven by high-quality, developer-foc...

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Episode 782 | Why I Succeeded: My 10 Best Entrepreneurial Decisions

08 Jul 2025
27m
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Episode 781 | A Founder's Regret List: 12 Mistakes I’ll Never Make Again

01 Jul 2025
39m
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Episode 780 | "I'll Never Sell My Company" and Other Myths Founders Tell Themselves

24 Jun 2025
42m
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Episode 779 | 10 Myths Most SaaS Founders Believe

17 Jun 2025
44m
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Episode 778 | Pricing Pilot Projects, Niching Down, Skipping Stairsteps, and More Listener Questions (A Rob Solo Adventure)

10 Jun 2025
39m
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Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entrepreneurs

03 Jun 2025
28m
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Episode 776 | How Bootstrapping Led to a Life-Changing $90M SaaS Exit

27 May 2025
50m
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