Rob Walling: Repeat SaaS Founder Success Proves Early Validation Is Learnable
Rob Walling · Episode 730 | The SaaS Launchpad: The Ultimate Course for Launchi... · Sep 10, 2024 · at 33:54
Rob Walling, co-founder of TinySeed, explains why startup validation can be systematically learned rather than treated as an unpredictable blank slate.
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“I'm going to point to Jason Cohen. I'm going to point to Heaton Shaw. I'm going to point to David Cancel. I'm going to point to myself. I'm going to point to Ruben Gomez. I'm going to put, you know, how many like two, three, four times successful founders? There are more. I'm just, that was off the top of my head, but it's like, they obviously are pretty good at this. And then we see folks who do it Three, five, 10 times with no success. So there, there's something. It's not just the person. They're not smarter. It may be a little smarter, but that's not it, right? It's like there are steps to take that will get you closer. There are frameworks around optimizing or, you know, increasing your chance of this being a successful venture.”
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