End of 2020 mega-episode

<p><strong>Looking back at 2020</strong></p><p>Note, many of the goals mentioned here were set in our <a href="https://www.startuptolast.com/episodes/looking-back-at-2019-and-forward-to-2020">2019 recap episode</a>.</p><ul> <li>Personal accomplishments <ul> <li>Rick <ul> <li>2019 Goal: Get to a point where he and his wife feel comfortable having kids - ✅ Not only are they ready, Rick's wife is pregnant 🎉</li> <li>2019 Goal: Increase level of play - ✅ He's been playing basketball, skiing, playing water sports, etc.</li> <li>Had success writing his newsletter almost every week.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Tyler <ul> <li>2019 Goal: Get a dog - ✅ His name is jolo and he's an idiot.</li> <li>2019 Goal: Exercise three times per week - ❌ Things were looking good until covid hit.</li> <li>Got married and bought a house.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>Business accomplishments <ul> <li>Rick <ul> <li>2019 Goal: Grow to $10k MRR - ❌ But did even better by focusing on one business and investing in the long term.</li> <li>LegUp Health makes more money than it spends.</li> <li>Built the LegUp Health product with no-code and low-code.</li> <li>Shut down his old business, Group Current, while maintaining a strong relationship with his co-founder.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Tyler <ul> <li>2019 Goal: Continue product team's momentum - ✅ LACRM put out meaningful product improvements regularly throughout the year.</li> <li>2019 Goal: Write code once per week - ❌ Didn't even come close.</li> <li>2019 Goal: Average 50 paying users/month from the referral channel - ❌ Had the right input, but didn't get the results.</li> <li>Launched a major redesign.</li> <li>Made it through the pandemic despite a couple terrible months.</li> <li>Raised prices.</li> <li>Hired two new people.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>Biggest disappointment <ul> <li>Rick - Not spending enough time with customers, friends, and family.</li> <li>Tyler - Had to fire an employee.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Biggest learning <ul> <li>Rick - The difference between earning 10% of