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Startups For the Rest of Us is a startups podcast hosted by Rob Walling with 329 episodes. Your strongest route into Startups For the Rest of Us starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.

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What Startups For the Rest of Us is about

The original podcast for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped startups, this show follow the stories of founders as they start, acquire, and grow SaaS companies. Hear when they fail, struggle, succeed, and take you with them through the tumultuous life of a SaaS founder. If you like Mixergy, This Week in Startups, or SaaStr, you’ll enjoy Startup for the Rest of Us.

In the show’s own words, from its public feed.

Publishes: weekly
Latest episode: Aug 18, 2026
Catalogue: 329 episodes

Recent episodes

Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.

Episode 846 | Snail Mail, Cold Calling, Regulating Your Nervous System, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)Aug 18, 2026
Episode 845 | Lifetime Deals Revisited, Building is Not the Hard Part, and Confirming an Idea is Worth Paying For (Rob Solo)Aug 11, 2026
Episode 844 | Building a $1M+ ARR SaaS for LaundromatsAug 4, 2026
Episode 843 | Success Patterns of $1M+ SaaS FoundersJul 28, 2026
Episode 842 | What is the Future of SaaS in an AI World? (Rob Solo)Jul 21, 2026

Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-08-23.

3 show-specific steps to pitch Startups For the Rest of Us

1
Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of Startups For the Rest of Us, which publishes weekly, currently “Episode 846 | Snail Mail, Cold Calling, Regulating Your Nervous System, and More…”. Listen for how Rob frames the conversation, then make your angle fit Startups For the Rest of Us.
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Send it to the address Startups For the Rest of Us publishes
Startups For the Rest of Us's feed publishes a contact address. We do not print Startups For the Rest of Us's address on public pages. A free account opens a pre-addressed draft for Startups For the Rest of Us in your mail app; we never send it. Startups For the Rest of Us also publishes a contact page on its own site, at startupsfortherestofus.com. That one is public, so you can use it right now with no account at all. Get the address for Startups For the Rest of Us. Open the Startups For the Rest of Us contact page.
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Lead with a specific, relevant angle
Hosts want early-stage specifics: fundraising, product bets, and go-to-market experiments others can learn from. Open with one sentence on why you fit Startups For the Rest of Us and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for Startups For the Rest of Us, then grade the draft against Startups For the Rest of Us.

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