Rob Walling: Organic SaaS Growth Is Harder, Making Seed Funding Advisable
Rob Walling · Episode 659 | Indie Hackers' Newfound Independence + The SaaS Pla... · May 2, 2023 · at 24:08
Rob Walling (co-founder of TinySeed and MicroConf) discusses how rising distribution competition and changing SEO dynamics make pure bootstrapping harder than it was a decade ago.
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“The content bar, especially with AI now, but even before that, like, 1015 years ago, I could hire someone to put out articles and just build links, like almost buy links from, what were they, blog networks or whatever, and you could rank in Google, and you can't do that anymore, right? So it is more challenging. I do think that's where raising a bit of funding has become more and more in my head. Like, I think if you get traction, it's probably something you want to think about. You know, even if you're a hardcore bootstrapper like myself, it just becomes hard to organically grow business in the ways that we used to.”
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