Free SOC 2 Compliance Checklist from Vanta

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How successful founders did it

This 3-person startup makes $1M/year

Back in March, we sat down with Paul Xue, the co-founder and CTO of Cloutdesk - a management platform for busy marketers.

Paul told us how they initially aimed their product at creators but found it challenging to maintain traction in the B2C world.

He explained in detail how he convinced his co-founders to shift to selling to marketers and recently closed their biggest client to date - a 6-figure deal.

Read the full story here.

An indie-hacker making $30k/month

Talking to Mario Jankovic about how he grew his startup Upstream, a platform powering 24/7 live streams for hundreds of creators, was truly inspiring.

One day he decided he wanted to make a video game, but didn’t know how he would market it.

He spoke to a friend about doing a live stream where everyone plays his new game non-stop for 24 hours.

But he instantly found that running this kind of stream consistently was just not that straightforward.

The idea for Upstream was born and he’s now making over $30K/month just in the first year.

Find out how he did it here.

100K users with a niche startup

There really is no better proof that niche communities are the best places to build a startup than Jason Louro and Campfire.

Campfire is a writing platform that helps over 100K fantasy and science-fiction writers tell engaging stories.

In this case study Jason explains how he found his first users in a niche Facebook group and leveraged YouTube influencer marketing to reach new users with insane ROI.

Plus, he recently launched a new mobile app aiming to knock Kindle off the top spot.

Read the full story here.

Selling for $3.5M in 4 years

Spencer Patterson recently sold his niche software platform on Flippa for a life-changing sum.

What’s more, he ran it at 95% margins with daily payouts from $2,000 → $10,000.

He told us how he found product-market fit and used a referral program to drive insane growth in just under 4 years.

Read how Spencer did it here.