“The only ways to get around it are to raise some money such that you can go full-time… odds are extremely low without traction.”

Rob Walling · Startups For the Rest of Us · Episode 852 | Getting Big Name Customer Case Studies and More Listener Questions (with Ruben Gamez)

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Advocated raising external capital to go full-time on a GovTech SaaS rather than bootstrapping

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