It's just too much

This week on the program, Justin and Jon talk about:


A friend, whose SaaS has grown 300% since the beginning of
the quarantine. They just hit $6k in MRR.

At that stage, he's in the "almost but not yet."

You're either:

Brainstorming how to make money faster

Brainstorming how to work less



Different stages:

Pre-launch stage: you're working on your product on the
side. It's fun! There's nothing stealing your time and
attention because you don't have customers yet.

The beta stage: still pretty fun! You have a few
customers who are using your product, and maybe paying you
money.

The "launched" stage: now, you have way more users. Now
you're doing way more customer support, responding to feature
requests.



How much did we work when we were building Transistor?

Jon figures we spent 45 to 60 hours a week (each).



Jason Calacanis’ tweet: "It takes 100 hours per week to build
a business!"

“Good businesses have margin."

Josh Wood: "At Honeybadger, we work 30 hours per week."

Margin gives you the opportunity, as a founder, to live
beyond your keyboard. To engage with the world.

Sandy Hudson (Sandra & Nora podcast): "The quarantine
gave people the time and space to wrestle with the current
moment."

The Dept of Veteran Affairs

"As your little baby Rails app grows up, you can't just run
everything on the same service."

"The whole internet is just patchwork of pipes and duct
tape." 



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Bootstrapper shout-out of the week:


LessAccounting

https://www.lessaccounting.com/

Cloud base accounting software and services for
non-accountants. This used to be owned by Allan Branch (Paul
Kogan owns it now). It’s specifically designed for small
businesses with 1-25 employees and contractors



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