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Rob Walling
Welcome to the MicroConf Podcast! Featuring two episodes per week, we take a look back at the archives from MicroConf's past and publish the audio of some of the best talks delivered from the MC stage and host a weekly live streamed conversation with founders and geniuses supporting the non-VC track startup community.
- 17 minutes 16 secondsMicroConf Tactics: How TinySeed Helped Harris Grow His SaaS to $500k ARR (in 1 Year)
Rob Walling chats with Harris Kenny, founder of OutboundSync, about how he took a low-code MVP and, with seed funding from TinySeed, scaled it into a SaaS business generating over $500K in annual recurring revenue — all in just one year.
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17 December 2025, 11:00 am - 34 minutes 6 secondsMicroConf Tactics: How to Perfectly Position Your B2B Brand in 34 Minutes
Unlock the most effective homepage positioning framework used by top-performing SaaS founders. In this video, Anthony Pierri of Fletch PPM breaks down how to craft a homepage that instantly communicates what your product does, who it’s for, and why it matters, boosting clarity, conversions, and customer trust.
Perfect for founders and marketers looking to level up their SaaS website strategy.
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3 December 2025, 11:00 am - 13 minutes 1 secondMicroConf Tactics: 5 BORING Decisions That Made Me a Multi-Millionaire
After 20 years building and exiting SaaS companies, Rob Walling looks back and pinpoints the 5 choices that made all the difference, from launching his first product to bootstrapping and exiting apps for life-changing money.
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19 November 2025, 11:00 am - 11 minutes 43 secondsMicroConf Tactics: NEVER Make These 6 Mistakes (Lessons from 20 Years in Business)
Rob Walling shares 6 founder regrets that didn’t just cost him money, they nearly derailed his business. From invisible mindset traps to avoidable missteps in hiring and decision-making, each one reveals something most founders don’t realize until it’s too late.
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5 November 2025, 11:00 am - 11 minutes 56 secondsMicroConf Tactics: The BEST Sales Funnel For Your SaaS (new data changed my advice)
In this episode, Rob Walling breaks down data-backed strategies to improve your trial funnel and explains why most SaaS founders should rethink freemium vs. free trial. Backed by insights from the nearly 700+ startups who participated in the State of Independent SaaS Report and 200+ of his own investments.
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22 October 2025, 10:00 am - 30 minutes 49 secondsMicroConf Tactics: Break Through the 7 SaaS Plateaus
Plateaus are the death of SaaS; unless you know how to spot and beat them.
In this talk from MicroConf New Orleans in 2025, Rob Walling shares real data from 192 startups and reveals how to break through the 7 SaaS growth plateaus- including leaky funnels, high churn, lack of leads, and losing product-market fit.
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8 October 2025, 10:00 am - 12 minutes 3 secondsMicroConf Tactics: Why to Avoid B2C SaaS at All Costs
In this episode, Rob reveals why selling to consumers (rather than businesses) is so freaking hard. He shares the only B2C SaaS strategy he would ever bet on, after starting 6 companies, investing in 224 SaaS startups, and writing 5 books on building life-changing businesses.
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24 September 2025, 10:00 am - 13 minutes 56 secondsMicroConf Tactics: Responding to the Brutal Comments on My Recent Video
Rob read the comments. Every last one of them. 225+ and some were wild. He’s here to break it down, clear the air, and set the story straight.
Watch the video that caused all this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rXXRdB3TJI&t=2s
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10 September 2025, 10:00 am - 19 minutes 2 secondsMicroConf Tactics: Designing the Perfect SaaS Business (Steal My Checklist)
Every founder dreams of building the next big SaaS success. But what separates the ideas that just sound good from the ones that truly take off? In this video, Rob Walling shares his personal checklist for the perfect SaaS idea. The more boxes you can check, the higher your chances of success.
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27 August 2025, 10:00 am - 8 minutes 13 secondsMicroConf Tactics: 7 Tempting Startup Ideas I’d NEVER Build (And Why)
If you're an early-stage founder or just dreaming about launching your own startup, you want to maximize your odds of success. But here’s the thing: not all ideas are created equal. Some are so tempting, so popular, that you'll see them everywhere—but they're actually traps that have burned more founders than can be counted.
In this episode, Rob Walling walks through seven startup ideas he’d never build.
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13 August 2025, 10:00 am - 10 minutes 4 secondsMicroConf Tactics: 99% of Beginners Don’t Know the Basics of SaaS
Want to know the real truth about SaaS? In this video I cover 5 critical SaaS fundamentals that can help you grow 7-figure businesses. There are harsh realities to building a SaaS, but knowing these principles can save you from beginner mistakes.
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