Starter Story - Starter Story’s Sunday Breakfast #41

Good morning and happy Sunday.

To make the weekend more enjoyable, we're delighted to share the Starter Story's Sunday Breakfast 🥞 with you.

What is the Sunday Breakfast?

It's 5 bite-sized case studies to motivate you for the week ahead. You can read it in 2 minutes or less.

Quick announcement:

A couple of months ago, I met Justin Welsh in person, and I was blown away by the business he’s been able to build.

It’s incredibly inspiring how a single-person operation can generate over $2M per year.

So I wanted to know more. And I discovered dozens of people just like Justin.

Founders running 6 and 7-figure businesses without any investment and zero employees.

All they use is a couple of online tools.

Since then, I’ve put my head down to research hundreds of case studies and distilled the best ones to get the absolute best insights from them.

How they came up with their ideas, make money, acquire customers, and run their businesses. 

All the insights you need to start and grow a 1-person business in a single spreadsheet.

The report is dropping next week for premium members only, keep an eye on your inbox.

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And now let's check this week's stories!

How this digital creator hit $100K/month

Once you got a product that has gained some traction, you have two options to keep growing:

1) Find more customers for those products

2) Create new products for your current customers

This founder took the second option, and it has clearly worked for him.

If you have an audience that likes what you do and trusts you, it's easier to sell a new product to them than find new customers.

Communicate with them, find their needs, and see if you can create more products/services to help them.

This self-taught developer bootstrapped a $1.7M/year agency

Like many tech people, this founder had friends asking him to help with their projects all the time. And he worked on those as side projects.

He had a 6-figure salary plus benefits.

But, one day, he decided to quit his job and go all in and build a business that could 10x his salary.

Just like he had taught himself to program using mostly free resources, he also taught himself how to manage multiple projects, hire staff, manage teams, track time, invoice, manage finances, etc.

This online tool grew to a $500K/year business

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This guy went from software engineer to copywriter (and made $150K in just 18 months) 

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Hard truths from a bootstrapping founder on the road from zero to one

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