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What does it take to make a lifetime deal work?
In this listener questions episode, Rob Walling revisits the lifetime pricing debate with new context from Davis Baer of Youform. He also tackles why building is rarely the hard part, how bootstrappers get shut out of startup discount programs, what to watch for when signing customer agreements ahead of an acquisition,...
What does it take to build a seven figure SaaS in a market almost no one thinks about?
In this episode, Rob Walling sits down with Brian Henderson, co-founder of Wash-Dry-Fold POS, to walk through the 10-year arc of building it in one of the most overlooked markets there is: laundromats. From selling other people's hardware as a scrappy reseller, to teaching himself...
Are you building systems for your team, or are you still the system?
In this episode, Rob Walling talks with Julien Marzouk, a former SaaS founder and coach who has worked with hundreds of seven and eight figure founders over the past decade. Julien breaks down six recurring patterns he sees in founders who scale past a million, from the identity shift of moving fr...
Is SaaS dead now that AI can build an app in a weekend?
In this solo episode, Rob Walling gives his most definitive answer yet to the question flooding the internet: what's the future of SaaS now that AI makes it easier than ever to build and copy a product? He breaks down the four most common claims that AI will kill Saas, and explains why the real SaaS apocalypse ...
Should you keep pouring time into a business that will probably never be huge?
In this episode, Rob Walling answers listener questions about whether to keep growing a "step two" B2C business despite platform risk, when one-time payments make sense versus subscriptions, and how to price and position a Shopify app that needs custom implementation work.
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