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Episode 849 | Legal Threats, AI as Platform Risk, Building Confid...
- ▶ 21:47 Rob Walling It's the, it's the only way that I'm able to say nice things about the stuff we do at MicroConf, Tiny Seed, on my YouTube channel, or my books, or this podcast, frankly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:17 Rob Walling We do not fund companies at TinySeed if the founder is not willing to go full time.
Episode 848 | What Liquid Death Can Teach Us About B2B SaaS (Rob...
- ▶ 11:50 Rob Walling My books, MicroConf, multiple SaaS ideas, TinySeed, and in addition to me, and I talked about this a couple episodes ago, most of the second-time founders and third-time founders, the serial entrepreneurs I see, they do more research and…
- ▶ 16:29 Rob Walling It's what I've used to build software companies, launch books, start MicroConf, start TinySeed, and it's, it's what I talk about in the SaaS playbook, and it's what the lean startup talks about.
Episode 803 | 8 Key Takeaways from MicroConf Europe 2025
- ▶ 0:19 Rob Walling As I said, Laura runs Rootable, which is a tiny seed company.
- ▶ 7:03 Rob Walling You know, it's like an extension of like the tiny seats lack is right, where it's like everybody
- ▶ 11:03 Laura Sprinkle And I'm actually going to book a call with him as part of the tiny seed mentorship, because I'm like, I want to implement life cycle marketing and it's so hard to, you know,
Episode 802 | Marketing Not Scaling, Where to Publish Content, an...
- ▶ 9:23 Rob Walling It's a, for example, it's a tiny C company.
- ▶ 28:52 Rob Walling Me slash MicroConf, TinyC, like the whole, my whole ecosystem, if we tried to monetize this with ads, we wouldn't even be able to afford my house payment.
Episode 801 | Competing Against Incumbents, Technical Co-Founders...
- ▶ 11:17 Rob Walling All that said, I've seen exactly what you said happened too with their, we had a tiny seed company, there was a competitor, that competitor raised like ten million in venture, and they did just drop their prices to a third 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:15 Rob Walling We have seen tiny seed applicants that we were unable to fund because a co-founder walked away with 30 to 50% of the company, and it's like, it's unfundable now.
- ▶ 41:17 Rob Walling I mean, within TinySeed, if I were to guess, it's two percent of companies, or five percent, like, it's a minuscule, minuscule number.
Episode 800 | The 12 Commandments of Startups for the Rest of Us
- ▶ 0:45 Rob Walling And the mission of this show, plus my books, plus MicroConf, TinySeed, and everything else that I do is to multiply the world's population of independent self-sustaining startups.
- ▶ 5:51 Rob Walling And, and I've disproven that with TinySeed, that the funding is actually founder-friendly, and every founder you hear talk about TinySeed says, wow, funding, it's not evil. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:15 Rob Walling Ruben and I recorded an entire episode about, well, there are exceptions, and there are some tiny seed companies that have convinced me that they should, in fact, build a second product.
- ▶ 14:40 Rob Walling You saw on and on and on, probably every tiny seed, or frankly, every founder that I've interviewed on Startups for the Rest of Us, almost without exception, either, at a minimum, had the problem themselves, and I would say, if you have…
- ▶ 36:09 Rob Walling Through this podcast, my books, my blog, MicroConf, Tiny Seed, and on and on.
Episode 799 | TinySeed Tales s5e6: $500k ARR!
- ▶ 0:12 Rob Walling If you're interested in investing in founders like Harris and diversifying your portfolio away from public markets or wherever you might have that money parked, you can join Tiny Seed Fund Three to invest in early stage bootstrapped B to B… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 Harris Kenny Which, I don't know if I ever talked about this on the show, but we talked, we talked about it a lot in the TinySeed Founders Slack.
- ▶ 23:39 Rob Walling TinySeed markets itself as the accelerator for ambitious bootstrappers, and I was curious how Harris's relationship with that ambition had evolved since he'd first applied more than a year ago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:40 Rob Walling If you've ever wondered what it's really like inside Tiny Seed and want to hear a raw, candid coaching conversation between Harris and I, we've put together something special for you at tinyseed.com slash bonus. 2 times in the scene
Episode 798 | Lessons From 10 Years of SaaS Growth Without a Hock...
- ▶ 1:03 Rob Walling If you'd like to diversify your portfolio out of public markets and index across dozens, if not more than a hundred early stage B-to-B SaaS companies, reach out to my partner, Einar Volset, at e-i-n-a-r at tinyc.com. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:25 Rob Walling That's the entire thesis of Tiny Seed, of course, is to get people to focus and not, you know, we don't allow folks in who, who are going to bring in multiple products, unless the products are an ecosystem, right, are highly related to…
- ▶ 20:40 Rob Walling Including several tiny seed companies.
- ▶ 20:56 Rob Walling So, as we bounce through into twenty-twenty-one, January twenty-twenty-one, you're at seven K of MRR, and then by fall of 22, you're at 25 K MRR, and you applied to TinySeed, and you got in to TinySeed. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:56 Rob Walling Was that based on our, our Tiny Seed, uh, urging? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:23 Rob Walling And, you know, when you join TinySeed, your pricing was, I'll say, relatively low.
Episode 797 | TinySeed Tales s5e5: Should I Raise More Funding?
- ▶ 0:15 Rob Walling During his time at Tiny Seed, Harris has had to work through some tough decisions, and he's relied on the mentorship, support, and community that the Tiny Seed Accelerator offers to early stage founders. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37 Rob Walling I'm your host, Rob Walling, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the startup accelerator for ambitious SaaS bootstrappers.
- ▶ 6:26 Harris Kenny My timeline was right, so I joined Tiny Seed, spring 24 batch, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:21 Rob Walling He and I had a few conversations, one of which we recorded and released it as a secret episode if you go to tinyseed.com slash bonus. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:39 Harris Kenny He's worked with multiple TinySeed founders.
- ▶ 30:19 Rob Walling If you've ever wondered what it's really like inside Tiny Seed and want to hear a raw, candid coaching conversation between Harris and I, we put together something special for you at tinyseed.com slash bonus.
Episode 796 | Marketing Isn't Easy?, How to Grow Your Company, an...
- ▶ 7:49 Rob Walling At TinySeed and across MicroConf and startups for the rest of us, we do see solo 2 times in the scene
Episode 795 | TinySeed Tales s5e4: The $20K Milestone
- ▶ 0:00 Rob Walling Welcome back to a special Thursday episode of Startups for the Rest of Us, where we continue on with Tiny Seed Tales Season Five, as we follow Harris Kenney on his journey to grow Outbound Sync. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10 Rob Walling I'm your host, Rob Walling, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the startup accelerator for ambitious SaaS bootstrappers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:00 Harris Kenny And I think because it was like externally like validated of like, yeah, like this is like a new, I mean, the tidy seat is vested in whatever, like a hundred or two, I don't know how many companies at this point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:42 Harris Kenny I mean, maybe at this point, there would be somebody who'd be willing to write the kind of check that Tiny Seed wrote for us a year ago, but
- ▶ 28:12 Rob Walling If you've ever wondered what it's really like inside Tiny Seed, and want to hear a raw, candid coaching conversation between Harris and I, we've put together something special for you at tinyseed.com slash bonus. 2 times in the scene
Episode 794 | From Struggling Side Project to Life-Changing SaaS...
- ▶ 2:54 Rob Walling Before we dive in to Zamir's incredible journey, applications for TinySeed, my B to B SaaS accelerator, close today, September ninth. 4 times in the scene
Episode 793 | TinySeed Tales s5e3: Building Momentum
- ▶ 0:07 Rob Walling Before we dive into the episode, I wanted to let you know that Tiny Seed applications are open for our fall 20 25 batch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08 Rob Walling I'm your host, Rob Walling, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the startup accelerator for ambitious SaaS bootstrappers.
- ▶ 3:11 Harris Kenny We, I mean, there was a few things that happened at once when we got at a tiny seed and, you know, I was spending a lot of time shutting down my old agency, which now I can say officially we have no clients left.
- ▶ 9:52 Rob Walling But you have just on this particular instance, you know, I'm sure there are other ones where you take the opposite tack, but that's, and that's what we see within TinySeed.
- ▶ 11:21 Harris Kenny And this wasn't like a tiny seed requirement. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:29 Harris Kenny Yeah, I, I believe so, and I will say, I think this, to me, this is why, like, well, Tiny Seed is different, it is still fundamentally a venture endeavor.
- ▶ 27:00 Rob Walling If you've ever wondered what it's really like inside Tiny Seed, and want to hear a raw, candid coaching conversation between Harris and I, we've put together something special for you at tinyseed.com slash bonus.
Episode 792 | Hot Take Tuesday: GPT-5 Struggles, the A.I. Bubble,...
- ▶ 0:20 Rob Walling Before we dive into the episode, I wanted to let you know that TinySeed applications are open for the fall 20 25 batch. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54 Rob Walling First, I'd like to introduce my panelists, the head of product for TinySeed and MicroConf. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:24 Rob Walling TinySeed, our startup accelerator for ambitious BtoB SaaS founders, has returned fund one, meaning we have returned more capital to our investors, our LPs, than they invested. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:44 Einar Vollset Hey, Zach, if you're listening to this, I would totally, I would totally leave behind Tiny Seed for a hundred million dollar package.
- ▶ 34:49 Rob Walling And we, of course, see this with tiny seed companies, where it's easiest thing to do is if you are a Bootstrap founder, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:28 Rob Walling His, his opinions do not reflect that of Tracy, I, or of Tiny Seed.
Episode 791 | TinySeed Tales s5e2: Growing Pains
- ▶ 0:04 Rob Walling Before we jump back in with Harris, I wanted to let you know that if you're a founder who's looking for the right amount of funding, a community of like-minded founders, and a world-class network of mentors, you should apply for Tiny Seed. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49 Rob Walling I'm your host, Rob Walling, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers.
- ▶ 25:53 Rob Walling So you wrote me a note and the note said, I realized we weren't really spending the tiny seed money yet.
- ▶ 29:01 Rob Walling If you've ever wondered what it's really like inside Tiny Seed and want to hear a raw, candid coaching conversation between Harris and I, we've put together something special for you at tinyseed.com slash bonus. 2 times in the scene
Episode 790 | From Scrappy to Scalable: Evolving Your Role as a F...
- ▶ 9:11 Rob Walling People who were unmotivated and bad hires, and I couldn't pick who I wanted to, and if I actually hire amazing people, we do need a little bit of mission, vision, values, not too much, but as long as we're living up to it, like I say, my…
- ▶ 19:46 Rob Walling And it's something that I encountered at, well, I guess it was a little bit after selling drip where I started managing managers, but even more with tiny seed as I pro I promoted folks who became managers. 2 times in the scene
Episode 789 | TinySeed Tales s5e1: From Agency to SaaS
- ▶ 0:42 Rob Walling If you're new to TinySeed, it's the startup accelerator I run for ambitious, bootstrapped SaaS founders, and it's the first accelerator of its kind. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54 Rob Walling I'm your host, Rob Walling, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:36 Rob Walling And I'm curious, you know, if you evaluated those, or, or for you, like, why TinySeed over the alternatives? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:41 Harris Kenny But also, like, I'm having much better ideas, and I'm having, we can talk about, like, the go-to-market stuff, but, like, that is starting to really, really accelerate, and I'm also seeing with my team, like, our developer, he was…
- ▶ 14:04 Rob Walling That's what I told Harris when he applied to be part of TinySeed, and he was skeptical at first, but ultimately, he came around. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:20 Harris Kenny I think the first thing I would say that I feel is that where I am right now is that this is kind of the getting into tiny seed, went on the agency, starting this ass is kind of the end of the beginning.
- ▶ 24:04 Rob Walling And that we see this with the most successful tiny seed founders. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:11 Harris Kenny Like, I have some pretty hard-coded things around money and how I spend my time that I'm trying to rewire now to, like, grow into someone who, like, apparently has a company that was backed by an investor, and not just an investor, but…
- ▶ 30:40 Rob Walling If you've ever wondered what it's really like inside Tiny Seed, and want to hear a raw, candid coaching conversation between Harris and I, we put together something special for you at tinyseed.com slash bonus.
Episode 788 | Do I Need a Co-founder? And More Listener Questions...
- ▶ 2:37 Thomas Parker A friend told me about Tiny Seed when I was starting my project Prism, which you can find at prism.guide last fall, and I've gotten a lot from the podcast since then. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Rob Walling We have several within MicroConf and TinySeed that were built by non-technical people who just kind of figured it out.
- ▶ 20:09 Rob Walling This is the, like, the longest answer ever to a question, but second thing we didn't address was, like, just having a co-founder in general, and he asked specifically around tiny seed funding, so we have funded gobs of single founder… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:46 Derrick Reimer Yeah, I think, so some of this is for my own stuff, some of this is just from talking to other TinySeed founders who have been sort of dealing with this lately. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:03 Rob Walling Like, the TinySeed MicroConf team feels a sense of urgency. 2 times in the scene
Episode 787 | "We Shut Down a $1.5M Product, and Raised $10M Inst...
- ▶ 2:37 Rob Walling And we talked about how your, uh, SaaS app called Stratosphere, how you went from bootstrapped to taking money from TinySeed, so we said mostly bootstrapped, to then going venture backed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:30 Rob Walling Something I'm really happy with is that when Anar and I sat down to figure out the tiny seed investment terms, and this was seven years ago, 2018, 19, and we were just trying to figure out, because there's all these terms, there was… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:33 Rob Walling and I remember saying something like, if we start funding, I don't even think TinySeed existed, but I was like, if I was going to invest in Bootstrappers, it would be one round 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:15 Rob Walling So last question for me today is regarding Tiny Seed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:19 Rob Walling When this episode goes live, Tiny Seed applications will open like a week or two later, right, for our next batch, our 16th batch or something like that, September one. 4 times in the scene
Episode 786 | Questions About Bootstrapping SaaS to a $90M Exit (...
- ▶ 43:40 Rob Walling There's a bunch of tiny seed founders who, a bunch of founders I know who are super successful that I don't think played any, played sports as a kid.
Episode 785 | Choosing Between AI Products, Building Multiple App...
- ▶ 4:25 Rob Walling We, in fact, get tiny seed applicants that are growing super fast and are doing 10, 15, 20,000 MRR, and I will tell them in the interview, if you had pitched me this idea, I would have said, this will never work. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:18 Rob Walling In addition, most makers, most developers, and most early-stage founders undercharge for their product, and so that's kind of the rule of thumb that we see, you know, coming into TinySeed, for example, which is something that I've tracked… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:40 Rob Walling And any Zap that we've ever built, or like, tool, because we had to do this with Drip, and there's a bunch of TinySeed companies that have to go through this, and they come into the TinySeed Slack 3 times in the scene
Episode 784 | The Wealth Ladder: Six Levels of Financial Freedom
- ▶ 1:27 Rob Walling Our investment thesis at Tiny Seed is starting to prove out. 3 times in the scene
Episode 783 | Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to $5M ARR and an 8-Figur...
- ▶ 3:12 Rob Walling Last time that you were public about Scraping B's revenue, and Scraping B was mostly bootstrapped, effectively bootstrapped, the only money you took was from Tiny Seed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:05 Pierre DeWulf A bit anticlimactic in a sense that, so the whole closing day was done remotely, so we had lawyers in the U.S., investors in the U.S., so TinySeed, we had the buyer in Lithuania, and us in South of France, so you do all those docusign, you…
- ▶ 12:20 Rob Walling Because that was, I remember when we interviewed you for Tiny C, because you were early, you were like, one KMRR maybe, which is, which is like right on the edge for us. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:23 Pierre DeWulf And then, so thanks to TinyC money, of course, and also to a few advice that made us focus on what works. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:51 Rob Walling What's interesting is that there's a good chunk of tiny seed companies that take the money and they say, you know, the money's great, but I didn't actually need it. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:29 Rob Walling He's come, he comes on for Hot Take Tuesdays, and my co-founder with TinySeed.
- ▶ 28:53 Rob Walling And what I tell TinySeed founders, because I believe we talked about it, but it's like across 200 and, how many do we have now? 2 times in the scene
Episode 782 | Why I Succeeded: My 10 Best Entrepreneurial Decisio...
- ▶ 6:19 Rob Walling Back in the early days, like, this still happens today as we are launching new marketing efforts or audience building efforts with MicroConf and TinySeed.
- ▶ 9:36 Rob Walling When they launched, they still don't, and they're still wildly successful, and there's dozens of seven and eight figure SaaS companies in TinySeed. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:30 Rob Walling But instead, I continued to build on what I had already created, from the blog, to the book, to the early membership website, to microconf, to the podcast, to Tiny Seed, YouTube channel, everything else.
Episode 751 | TinySeed Tales s4e2: From Developer to Manager
- ▶ 0:08 Rob Walling Tiny Seed is the gold standard for mentorship, funding, and advice for bootstrapped SaaS founders. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:17 Rob Walling I'm your host, Rob Walling, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers.
- ▶ 20:51 Rob Walling Tracy Osborne, Tiny Seed Program Manager, was a microcom speaker in 2016, and kind of was in the orbit, you know.
Episode 750 | Making Your First Hire, Testing Prices, And More Li...
- ▶ 0:22 Rob Walling Before we dive in to today's questions, I wanted to let you know about something that my team and I at Tiny Seed have been working on for at least six months in the background, and it's a premium private coaching community designed for B… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:25 Rob Walling But if we're hiring part-time, we tend, we being MicroConf Tiny Seed, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:05 Rob Walling And that, that's, that's the kind of stuff like with tiny seed companies that I do all the time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:12 Rob Walling Every time, you know, we do this with tiny seed applications because I like to see what's actually driving applicants. 3 times in the scene
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