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March 27, 2023 55 mins

The SaaS Playbook will shave years off your learning curve if you want to build a SaaS. Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur and the internet godfather of indie SaaS businesses who has built six companies and has been a long-standing voice in creative, independent paths into product building and entrepreneurship since 2010.

Links & resources mentioned

* Book: The SaaS Playbook

* Back the Kickstarter

* Startups for the Rest of Us podcast & MicroConf YouTube

* TinySeed

* MicroConf

Related episodes:

* Rob Walling (ep28): Build a great business and let that be enough

* DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks

People & orgs:

* TinySeed

* MicroConf

* Dr Shelly Walling

* Justin Jackson - choosing a market

Books:

* The SaaS Playbook

* The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together

* Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

* The Zen Founder Guide to Founder Retreats

Other resources:

* MicroConf

* IndieHackers

* The 5PM idea validation framework

* Survivorship bias

* Stair step method of bootstrapping



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