Episode 832 | Going Full-time, When to Pivot, Building With Young Kids, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)
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Episode 832 | Going Full-time, When to Pivot, Building With Young Kids, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)
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How do you leave a $400K salary to go all in on your business?
In this solo episode, Rob Walling cranks through a backlog of listener questions on reducing risk with your startup to go full-time, when to register as a business, how to price a SaaS with seat ambiguity, when to pivot, and how to keep building when you have four kids under eight.
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Topics we cover:- (2:15) – Leaving a $400K salary to go full-time
- (7:43) – When to officially register your business
- (10:51) – Seat-based pricing with shared branding
- (12:40) – When to get a design audit
- (15:05) – How to calculate TAM for a Shopify app
- (18:29) – Can a step one app break free of its marketplace?
- (20:22) – How to know when it's time to pivot
- (22:31) – Building a startup with four young kids
- (25:30) – How to find ICP conversations without a network
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