In episode 708, Rob Walling and Derek Reimer tackle listener questions about building development skills vs. business skills and strategies for entering competitive markets. They also chat about building on top of AI services, addressing the risks of platform dependency and the importance of managing infrastructure costs.
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Topics we cover:If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you! Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify
Episode 711 | Finding Early Customers, Horizontal vs. Vertical, Prosumer SaaS, and More Listener Questions (with Ruben Gamez)
Episode 710 | Is Coding Dead?, The "Right" Tech Stack, Funded Competition, and More Listener Questions
Episode 709 | The 7 Greatest Investments of My Life
Episode 707 | Once.com, Open Source to FT Income, and More (Hot Take Tuesday)
Episode 706.5 | Rethinking My Most Common Advice
Episode 706.1 | MicroConf US Tickets Will Sell Out Soon!
Episode 706 | 2/20/200 Validation, Prior Art, and Designing by Committee (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Episode 705 | From Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped to Venture Backed
Episode 704 | Landing Pages, Buying a SaaS, the Right Tech Stack, and More Listener Questions
Episode 703 | The Accidental SaaS Entrepreneur
Episode 702 | Revenue vs. Profit Multiples, When to Lower Prices, and More Listener Questions
Episode 701 | The Long Journey to Product-Market Fit
Episode 700 | Playing the Long Game
Episode 699 | How to Build Elegant, Scalable Software Products with Derrick Reimer
Episode 698 | How to Launch a Million Dollar Business (With Noah Kagan)
Episode 697 | 7 Predictions for SaaS Bootstrappers in 2024
Episode 696 | The Truth about Product-Market Fit + Doing Sales as an Introvert (With Ruben Gamez)
Episode 695 | Ideal Customers, Moving from B2C to B2B, and More Listener Questions (with Asia Orangio)
Episode 694 | 2023 In Review: Amazing Growth & Fighting Burnout
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