Landon and Kyle discuss the idea of avoiding popular SaaS markets and give their thoughts on building in public (while sipping on some bourbon & eggnog). They also give their thoughts on some of the recent SaaS acquisitions.
Today's Topics Include:
- Their podcast drinks of choice
- Acquisitions of Kustomer (Facebook) & Slack (Salesforce)
- New product: Bump
- Building in public? Pros and cons
- Learnings are helpful
- Leads to more competitors
- More interested in klout instead of business
- Spending more time showing you're building in public than actually building
- Many 'open startups' move away from that as they grow
- Giving a business more time to mature
- 90% of companies still aren't using cloud-based software
- These are the unsexy niches
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