MVP & prototyping

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How to validate a SaaS idea in under 30 days

Rob Walling November 7, 2022

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MVP & prototyping 9

Pivoting 6

• Landing page opt-ins — not traffic — are the real validation signal.
• 70 cold calls revealed a wrong idea before a single line of code.
• Combining conversations and a launch list turned Drip's launch into 3,400 sign-ups.

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Unit economics

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B2B vs B2C SaaS: why the economics are not even close

Rob Walling October 31, 2022

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Unit economics 9

Business models 8

Pricing strategy 6

• B2C SaaS requires 165,000 visitors to reach 1,000 customers
• B2B charges 10x more with a fraction of the churn
• A dual prosumer-plus-business funnel combines reach with high revenue per account

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Time management

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Six startup mistakes that killed PricingBot and built ScrapingBee

Rob Walling October 27, 2022

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Time management 9

Productivity & habits 8

• A paying customer is the only real validation — everything else is noise.
• Commit to one acquisition channel long enough to hit the compounding phase.
• Consistency at the wrong thing compounds failure; know when to quit.

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Growth hacking

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Seven underused SaaS marketing strategies beyond the standard five

Rob Walling October 24, 2022

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Growth hacking 9

Content marketing 7

MVP & prototyping 5

• Alternative-to pages rank in Google before you have brand recognition.
• Capterra buyers are near purchase decisions — high cost, higher conversion.
• In-person events pay off when a single deal covers the entire trip cost.

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Customer discovery

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Why most startups fail: building something nobody pays for

Rob Walling October 17, 2022

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Customer discovery 9

Business models 7

• Starting from an idea — not a problem — is why most startups fail
• Consumers are cheap and churny; bootstrap B2B for repeatable success
• The best product rarely wins — marketing and sales beat quality

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Customer discovery

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Seven SaaS ideas worth validating before you build

Rob Walling October 10, 2022

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Customer discovery 8

MVP & prototyping 7

Niche selection 6

• Crowdsourced ideas from founders who wished the product existed
• Privacy-first GDPR alternatives to popular SaaS are a whole category play
• Validate before coding — contact potential customers first

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Automation & tools

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8 lesser-known developer tools worth adding to your stack

Rob Walling October 3, 2022

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Automation & tools 9

• See browser console errors without ever opening DevTools
• One command exposes localhost to the internet for webhook testing
• Hover any element on any site to instantly copy its CSS

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Hiring & recruitment

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Hiring top-tier talent for your startup: five principles

Rob Walling September 26, 2022

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Hiring & recruitment 9

Vision & mission 6

Culture building 5

• Top talent chooses you — so give them reasons Fortune 500 can't.
• Your real advantages: autonomy, impact, low politics, interesting problems.
• Retaining great hires matters more than landing them in the first place.

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Outsourcing & delegation

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Hitting reset: how Laura Roeder restructured MeetEdgar for profitability

Rob Walling September 22, 2022

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Outsourcing & delegation 8

Business models 7

Bootstrapping 6

• Firing your whole team while profitable — and why it worked
• 90% fewer operating hours, same revenue, 7× higher margin
• Headcount signals seriousness; it doesn't create SaaS value

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Cash flow management

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11 ways early-stage startups waste money

Rob Walling September 19, 2022

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Cash flow management 9

Long-term planning 7

Processes & SOPs 6

• Hire before product-market fit and you'll burn runway fast
• Prestige offices, senior titles, and over-hiring signal status, not growth
• Brand marketing before direct-response is money into a void

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Equity & cap tables

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How to distribute startup equity fairly among founders

Rob Walling September 12, 2022

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Equity & cap tables 9

Unit economics 6

• Equal founder splits are the default — and usually wrong.
• The TOC framework turns time, salary, and cash into a fair split.
• Vesting protects the cap table if a founder walks early.

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Pricing strategy

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SaaS pricing fundamentals: expansion revenue, ARPC, and raising prices

Rob Walling September 8, 2022

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Pricing strategy 9

Pricing psychology 7

Business models 5

• Higher-paying customers churn at a fraction of the rate of low-paying ones.
• ARPC beats LTV for bootstrappers — you can't wait 8 years for payback.
• A pre-announced price increase with clear justification drives more trials, not fewer.

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Retention & loyalty

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What churn is and how to reduce it in your SaaS startup

Rob Walling September 6, 2022

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Retention & loyalty 10

Unit economics 7

Product-market fit 5

• Net negative churn lets your business grow with zero new customers
• Before product-market fit, no retention tactic will fix high churn
• Revenue churn beats customer count as your core SaaS health metric

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Fundraising & VC

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Seed funding for startups: what founders need to know

Rob Walling August 29, 2022

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Fundraising & VC 9

Business models 6

• 90% of startups should bootstrap — not raise any funding
• Investor type determines the exit you're allowed to want
• Giving up 40% early can permanently destroy your cap table

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Niche selection

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How Veed.io grew from zero to $5M ARR in two years

Rob Walling August 25, 2022

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Niche selection 9

SEO 8

Case studies 7

• Stop building features — obsessive growth beats polished product
• Build for what people already search for: demand and distribution in one
• First dollar took two years; growth then compounded every few months

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