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Maker Mindset
Maker Mindset
Author: Mike Rubini
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Adventures and learnings in building, launching and running a portfolio of profitable SaaS products. Get ready to learn from Mike and his guests as they share struggles, successes, best practices, and case studies.
56 Episodes
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Losing transparency
We are dropping transparency as a company value.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/public-vs-private
Right people, right seats
The team is growing!
https://blog.rubini.solutions/right-people-right-seats
On volume
Ask yourself: how can you go extreme?
https://blog.rubini.solutions/on-volume
Time to first result
One useful metric that I've begun to track lately is "time to first result".
https://blog.rubini.solutions/time-to-first-result
Negotiations as a solo founder
I’ve been part of negotiations related to agreements a few times now in my entrepreneurial career and I’ve been fooled a few times...
https://blog.rubini.solutions/negotiations-and-power
How I stay productive
Productivity for me is about how well I spend my time and energy, and how I can get more energy and time.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/productivity
Is being a maker a disadvantage in the job market?
As you know I believe in stacking multiple streams of income. I currently have ~10 SaaS, a productized service, a course, and I consult. But I’m missing one important stream of income.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/maker-job-market
Space occupation
I recently launched 10 products on Product Hunt at the same time and I wanted to expand on why I did this.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/space-occupation
Announcing my tiny bootstrapped fund (and first acquisition)
I’m announcing my alternative, bootstrapped fund.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/fundEpisode Notes
[Interview] How to become a full-time creator
An interview I did with Doc Williams on how to become a full-time creator almost 2 years ago, but still current.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aiE0qrGzD8
Reversing SaaS demos
How I currently think about demos and how to go extreme on minimizing time to value.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/extreme-demos
About playbooks
I run three types of SaaS products. Here are the different playbooks I'm using the monetize them.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/playbooks/
My first hire
My journey hiring Clarice as an executive assistant, 8 months ago.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/my-first-hire/
Yes and yes
In life, people often think they have to choose between two things. Or, put one before the other. Here is the thing: you can just have both.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/my-first-hire/
We launched Podda.io (2021)
We just launched a new tool that allows you to search podcasts by guest, and more!
https://blog.rubini.solutions/we-launched-podda-io-2021/
1:1
This episode is about encapsulating my thinking on the topic of hiring at this point in time. In addition, I set my weird candidate criteria.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/11-2/
Does it make sense?
This is an episode about finding the thing that makes the other things you do meaningless.
https://blog.rubini.solutions/does-it-make-sense/
Speed by subtraction
Pointing out a great tweet by Patrick Collison (CEO @ Stripe)
https://blog.rubini.solutions/speed-by-subtraction/
The era of gods
In this episode I clarify my position about code becoming a commodity. Is code still technology? What will we work in the future?
https://blog.rubini.solutions/the-era-of-gods/
Multiple products, same product
How can you differentiate yourself when code is becoming a commodity?
https://blog.rubini.solutions/multiple-products-same-product/











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