In the 8.5 years of Rogue Startups and the 280+ episodes, Dave Rodenbaugh has joined me (Craig) in chronicling our journey as founders and building our businesses. In that time, Dave has grown 2 WordPress plugins, sold those businesses, acquired a SaaS business called Recapture, grown it to go full time and quit his consulting ... Read more

In the 8.5 years of Rogue Startups and the 280+ episodes, Dave Rodenbaugh has joined me (Craig) in chronicling our journey as founders and building our businesses. In that time, Dave has grown 2 WordPress plugins, sold those businesses, acquired a SaaS business called Recapture, grown it to go full time and quit his consulting ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rebooting/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

Rebooting…

In this solo episode, Craig reflects back on his journey as Castos turns six years old. He also looks into the possibilities and the future of podcasting and entrepreneurship. What do the next two years look like for Castos? What’s it look like when your business is in its awkward teen years? How do you ... Read more

In this solo episode, Craig reflects back on his journey as Castos turns six years old. He also looks into the possibilities and the future of podcasting and entrepreneurship. What do the next two years look like for Castos? What’s it look like when your business is in its awkward teen years? How do you ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs283-team-retreat-personal-branding-and-the-long-term-view/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS283: Team Retreat, Personal Branding, and The Long-Term View

Joel Klettke

In this episode of the Rogue Startups Podcast, Craig talks with Joel Klettke, the founder of Case Study Buddy. They cover everything from AI to full-time employees versus part-time contractors, to productized services.  How do you get in the right brain space in order to delegate, trust, and effectively hire people to work alongside you ... Read more

In this episode of the Rogue Startups Podcast, Craig talks with Joel Klettke, the founder of Case Study Buddy. They cover everything from AI to full-time employees versus part-time contractors, to productized services.  How do you get in the right brain space in order to delegate, trust, and effectively hire people to work alongside you ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs282-ai-transitioning-from-founder-led-sales-and-productized-services-with-joel-klettke/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS282: AI, Transitioning From Founder-Led Sales, and Productized Services with Joel Klettke

SaaS marketing is a difficult world to navigate. How do you evaluate growth in your business? We all know that niching down is important, but how do you know where to focus your efforts? Time spent on trial and error is only effective if you can make an educated decision based on data, but how ... Read more

SaaS marketing is a difficult world to navigate. How do you evaluate growth in your business? We all know that niching down is important, but how do you know where to focus your efforts? Time spent on trial and error is only effective if you can make an educated decision based on data, but how ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs281-the-state-of-saas-marketing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS281: The State Of SaaS Marketing

Is there such a thing as focusing too much on churn?  How is your company utilizing AI? What are your favorite productivity hacks? Dave summarizes his takeaways from his tenth MicroConf. Craig recommends “The 5AM Club” by Robin Sharma to the masses. They also discuss conferences and team retreats they will be attending and holding ... Read more

Is there such a thing as focusing too much on churn?  How is your company utilizing AI? What are your favorite productivity hacks? Dave summarizes his takeaways from his tenth MicroConf. Craig recommends “The 5AM Club” by Robin Sharma to the masses. They also discuss conferences and team retreats they will be attending and holding ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs280-productivity-mindset-best-practices/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS280: Productivity Mindset Best Practices

How do you define helpful feedback? What sort of customer opinions should you brush off? Dave shares his experiences with some brutal feedback and how he is using it to better customer experience with Recapture.  What makes a good virtual assistant versus a great virtual assistant? Craig talks about the executive assistant he hired (through ... Read more

How do you define helpful feedback? What sort of customer opinions should you brush off? Dave shares his experiences with some brutal feedback and how he is using it to better customer experience with Recapture.  What makes a good virtual assistant versus a great virtual assistant? Craig talks about the executive assistant he hired (through ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs279-processing-brutal-feedback-and-hiring-an-ae/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS279: Processing Brutal Feedback, and Hiring An AE

Dave talks about the complications that arise behind writing long-form web content. He also gives us updates on Recapture and talks about Patrick Campbell’s latest tweet thread on running a business during a recession. Craig poses a question about the increasing cost of Hubspot and the possibility of switching costs. Is Hubspot worth it? They ... Read more

Dave talks about the complications that arise behind writing long-form web content. He also gives us updates on Recapture and talks about Patrick Campbell’s latest tweet thread on running a business during a recession. Craig poses a question about the increasing cost of Hubspot and the possibility of switching costs. Is Hubspot worth it? They ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs278-switching-cost/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS278: Switching Cost

Dave and Craig dive into the concept of hiring above and below, creating focus days, and evaluating the value of industry conferences. What kinds of benefits do you get from attending industry conferences? How do you buy back your time? Any tips on how Craig should find his first DnD group? We’d love to hear ... Read more

Dave and Craig dive into the concept of hiring above and below, creating focus days, and evaluating the value of industry conferences. What kinds of benefits do you get from attending industry conferences? How do you buy back your time? Any tips on how Craig should find his first DnD group? We’d love to hear ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs277-getting-value-from-conferences/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS277: Getting Value From Conferences

Today, Craig chats with Farzad Rashidi about outreach, marketing, partner recruitment, and what Responda can do for your business. Farzad also talks about how to utilize cold outreach in a productive and effective way. It isn’t always about the tools, but how you use them.  Farzad started on his outreach guru journey working as a ... Read more

Today, Craig chats with Farzad Rashidi about outreach, marketing, partner recruitment, and what Responda can do for your business. Farzad also talks about how to utilize cold outreach in a productive and effective way. It isn’t always about the tools, but how you use them.  Farzad started on his outreach guru journey working as a ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs276-scaled-outreach-done-right-with-farzad-rashidi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS276: Scaled Outreach, Done Right with Farzad Rashidi

In this episode of Rogue Startups, the focus is on BigSnow takeaways and reflections including prioritizing, delegating, and focusing on important tasks. How do these things differ for small businesses versus big businesses? What is the difference between the EOS role chart versus Dan Sullivan/Dan Martell’s A-B-C task prioritization? Which roles should be outsourced and ... Read more

In this episode of Rogue Startups, the focus is on BigSnow takeaways and reflections including prioritizing, delegating, and focusing on important tasks. How do these things differ for small businesses versus big businesses? What is the difference between the EOS role chart versus Dan Sullivan/Dan Martell’s A-B-C task prioritization? Which roles should be outsourced and ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs275-when-and-how-we-delegate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS275: When And How We Delegate

On Rogue Startups we share the journey of startup founders as they're growing their businesses. We feature experts in the fields of sales, marketing, and product development to hear how they're growth hacking their productized services and SaaS products. If you're on the journey of an entrepreneur then tune and hear how we're tackling some of the same obstacles you may be facing, and how we're winning in the game of business. Listeners of Startups for the Rest of Us, My First Million, Mixergy, and Bootstrapped Web will love checking out our show.

ChatGPT seems to be on the tips of everyone’s tongues these days, so today we’re talking about what it means for social media, web content, and the podcasting industry. Not to mention, Dave just can’t quit Twitter and Craig tries to develop his personal brand. They chat about the current state of the economy, title ... Read more

ChatGPT seems to be on the tips of everyone’s tongues these days, so today we’re talking about what it means for social media, web content, and the podcasting industry. Not to mention, Dave just can’t quit Twitter and Craig tries to develop his personal brand. They chat about the current state of the economy, title ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs274-chat-gpt-the-economy-and-new-realities/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS274: Chat GPT, The Economy, and New Realities

It’s a new year which means that businesses all over are going through the OKR process and the annual planning phase for EOS. In this episode, Dave and Craig talk about how the processes are different for them this year. How do you say no to everything except what you need to do? How do ... Read more

It’s a new year which means that businesses all over are going through the OKR process and the annual planning phase for EOS. In this episode, Dave and Craig talk about how the processes are different for them this year. How do you say no to everything except what you need to do? How do ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs273-relentless-focus/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS273: Relentless Focus

It’s the beginning of 2023, which means it’s time to reflect on what we learned from last year. Craig shares his hot take on the recession and Gumroad. Dave compares this recession to the previous ones they have lived through. They analyze trends from Q4 and look forward to what 2023 could bring. Not to ... Read more

It’s the beginning of 2023, which means it’s time to reflect on what we learned from last year. Craig shares his hot take on the recession and Gumroad. Dave compares this recession to the previous ones they have lived through. They analyze trends from Q4 and look forward to what 2023 could bring. Not to ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs272-a-few-year-end-reflections/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS272: A Few Year-End Reflections

What is going on with these VC companies? How do you weed out the riff-raff when you offer free trials? Are you a SaaS owner and have you done an audit on your expenditures? Has it really been a couple of months since our last update? Dave and Craig are back with company updates and industry ... Read more

What is going on with these VC companies? How do you weed out the riff-raff when you offer free trials? Are you a SaaS owner and have you done an audit on your expenditures? Has it really been a couple of months since our last update? Dave and Craig are back with company updates and industry ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs271-long-time-no-podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS271: Long time, no podcast

Dave flies solo today, talking with Jim Breese of AppHub.com, an ecommerce app aggregator.  Jim discusses the business model of aggregation in the ecommerce space, and together, Dave and Jim riff on some email marketing tactics that are uncommonly effective (and still underused by 95% of all SaaS and ecommerce marketers according to Dave). Do ... Read more

Dave flies solo today, talking with Jim Breese of <a href="http://AppHub.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AppHub.com</a>, an ecommerce app aggregator.  Jim discusses the business model of aggregation in the ecommerce space, and together, Dave and Jim riff on some email marketing tactics that are uncommonly effective (and still underused by 95% of all SaaS and ecommerce marketers according to Dave). Do ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs270-how-ecommerce-aggregators-are-winning-the-saas-game/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS270: How ecommerce aggregators are winning the SaaS game

Who are you? Who is your company? Who does your company serve? Positioning is important for a number of reasons. It gives you and your company a sense of purpose and direction. But finding your niche isn’t as easy as it may seem. Dave and Craig are back! Today they’re talking about all of the ... Read more

Who are you? Who is your company? Who does your company serve? Positioning is important for a number of reasons. It gives you and your company a sense of purpose and direction. But finding your niche isn’t as easy as it may seem. Dave and Craig are back! Today they’re talking about all of the ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs269-been-a-while-updates-and-positioning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS269: Been a while…updates and positioning

What is the difference between a CEO’s mindset and an operator’s mindset? What are lessons you’ve learned about hiring good developers? How do you do a technical evaluation for possible developers? As Dave nears his one-year reunion as a full-time entrepreneur with Recapture, he shares some of the lessons and realizations he had learned in ... Read more

What is the difference between a CEO’s mindset and an operator’s mindset? What are lessons you’ve learned about hiring good developers? How do you do a technical evaluation for possible developers? As Dave nears his one-year reunion as a full-time entrepreneur with Recapture, he shares some of the lessons and realizations he had learned in ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs268-lessons-learned-hiring-standout-developers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS268: Lessons Learned Hiring Standout Developers

How do you take your SaaS idea and turn it into a successful business? How do you build a SaaS business from scratch?  In this episode of Rogue Startups, Dave is chatting with email marketing guru, Chase Dimond. Today, he joins Dave to talk about his new platform, EmailUp. EmailUp is Canva for email. He ... Read more

How do you take your SaaS idea and turn it into a successful business? How do you build a SaaS business from scratch?  In this episode of Rogue Startups, Dave is chatting with email marketing guru, Chase Dimond. Today, he joins Dave to talk about his new platform, EmailUp. EmailUp is Canva for email. He ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs267-hazards-of-growing-a-saas-from-scratch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS267: Hazards of Growing a SaaS from Scratch

Did you attend MicroConf 2022? What is it like to go to a convention after the pandemic? On today’s episode of Rogue Startups, Dave and Craig break down their experiences at MicroConf 2022. After a few years of attending the conference, their priorities and perspectives have changed when it comes to what they’re looking for ... Read more

Did you attend MicroConf 2022? What is it like to go to a convention after the pandemic? On today’s episode of Rogue Startups, Dave and Craig break down their experiences at MicroConf 2022. After a few years of attending the conference, their priorities and perspectives have changed when it comes to what they’re looking for ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs266-microconf-2022-recap/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS266: MicroConf 2022 Recap

In this episode, after a hiatus that was waay too long, Craig and Dave talk about Dave’s recent experience with customer interviews. There’s always a balance between taking customers’ input into your product process and having that founder level intuition to drive the product (and business) forward. Craig gives updates on his bigger picture goals ... Read more

In this episode, after a hiatus that was waay too long, Craig and Dave talk about Dave’s recent experience with customer interviews. There’s always a balance between taking customers’ input into your product process and having that founder level intuition to drive the product (and business) forward. Craig gives updates on his bigger picture goals ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs265-the-customer-interview-trap/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS265: The Customer Interview Trap

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Rogue Startups

Today, I am talking with Asia Matos (the CEO and founder of Demand Maven) about marketing. This episode is not for the faint of heart; it’s mainly for people who already know a bit about marketing. If you’re new to marketing, there will still be a lot of great information for you today.  Asia and ... Read more

Today, I am talking with Asia Matos (the CEO and founder of Demand Maven) about marketing. This episode is not for the faint of heart; it’s mainly for people who already know a bit about marketing. If you’re new to marketing, there will still be a lot of great information for you today.  Asia and ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs198-marketing-201-with-asia-matos/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS198: Marketing 201 with Asia Matos

Dave and Craig talk are both back and today they’re catching everyone up on some surprise snow, school vacations, and Craig gives Dave a recap of the MicroConf in Croatia. Not only did Craig spend a lot of time with entrepreneurs, but he also got the chance to go kayaking at Blackwater Bay, and go ... Read more

Dave and Craig talk are both back and today they’re catching everyone up on some surprise snow, school vacations, and Craig gives Dave a recap of the MicroConf in Croatia. Not only did Craig spend a lot of time with entrepreneurs, but he also got the chance to go kayaking at Blackwater Bay, and go ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs194-microconf-europe-recap/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS194: MicroConf Europe Recap

Today on Rogue Startups, Dave and Craig talk about when and why we should move horizontally in the podcasting world and in eCommerce. They talk about the pros and cons of moving horizontally and branching out, checkbox strategies, and when it can be a boat anchor instead of propelling you and your business forward. Dave ... Read more

Today on Rogue Startups, Dave and Craig talk about when and why we should move horizontally in the podcasting world and in eCommerce. They talk about the pros and cons of moving horizontally and branching out, checkbox strategies, and when it can be a boat anchor instead of propelling you and your business forward. Dave ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs196-getting-outside-your-wheelhouse/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS196: Getting Outside Your Wheelhouse

Bryan Marble

This week Craig catches up with fellow TinySeed founder Bryan Marble from ClientRock. Bryan is a multi time SaaS founder in the legal tech space and is growing out his second app as part of the innagural TinySeed cohort. Craig and Bryan talk through the ups and downs of being part of a remote accelerator, ... Read more

This week Craig catches up with fellow TinySeed founder Bryan Marble from ClientRock. Bryan is a multi time SaaS founder in the legal tech space and is growing out his second app as part of the innagural TinySeed cohort. Craig and Bryan talk through the ups and downs of being part of a remote accelerator, ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs186-inside-tinyseed-with-bryan-marble-from-clientrock/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS186: Inside TinySeed with Bryan Marble from ClientRock

With Dave off this week, Craig spends this episode talking about achievements in 2019 and “doing it better the second time around” with Benedikt Deicke, from Userlist, which is a lifecycle messaging and email for SaaS products.  We go over the various lessons we have learned from going through the process once before, then approaching ... Read more

With Dave off this week, Craig spends this episode talking about achievements in 2019 and “doing it better the second time around” with Benedikt Deicke, from Userlist, which is a lifecycle messaging and email for SaaS products.  We go over the various lessons we have learned from going through the process once before, then approaching ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs202-better-the-second-time/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS202: Better the Second Time

In this episode, Dave and Craig talk through Recapture’s recent growth spurt and the opportunities (and challenges) that it provides to Dave and the team. Resources Mentioned Microconf State of Independent SaaS Companies Survey NetworkThinking SysAdmin/Devops Team

RS191: The Baggage That Comes With High Growth

Jordan Gal

This episode of Rogue Startups, Craig chats with fellow entrepreneur Jordan Gal.  Jordan is the founder and CEO of CartHook, which is a software company that provides an e-commerce platform for online businesses and the Bootstrapped Web podcast. Craig and Jordan talk about product development and process; the difference between “hovering” and managing; the role ... Read more

This episode of Rogue Startups, Craig chats with fellow entrepreneur Jordan Gal.  Jordan is the founder and CEO of CartHook, which is a software company that provides an e-commerce platform for online businesses and the Bootstrapped Web podcast. Craig and Jordan talk about product development and process; the difference between “hovering” and managing; the role ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs187-the-evolving-product-process-with-jordan-gal-of-carthook/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS187: The Evolving Product Process with Jordan Gal of CartHook

In this episode of Rogue Startups, Dave and Craig chat about recent updates with their businesses. After a busy summer, Craig catches everyone up with how Castos is doing. He also talks about the pros and cons of credit card trial processes, micromanaging, and references David Hensel’s great management techniques.  Dave talks about the growth ... Read more

In this episode of Rogue Startups, Dave and Craig chat about recent updates with their businesses. After a busy summer, Craig catches everyone up with how Castos is doing. He also talks about the pros and cons of credit card trial processes, micromanaging, and references David Hensel’s great management techniques.  Dave talks about the growth ... <a href="https://roguestartups.com/rs188-recapture-growth-and-changing-the-trial-flow/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more</a>

RS188: Recapture Growth and Changing the Trial Flow

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