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11/5/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #109: Building in Public: Taking Breaks
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Let's get one thing straight right away: building in public is a performative act. It's not something that "just happens." It might
10/29/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #108: Building in Public: Balancing Building and Sharing
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, One of the major problems that Build in Public novices face is how to split their attention between creating their product and talking about their
10/22/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #107: Too Little, Too Much: Advice and How to Take It
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, "For even the very wise cannot see all ends." ― Gandalf, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Whenever people talk about advice, they
10/15/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #106: Burnout
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Every week, I see more people talking about burning out. It seems to be hitting anyone: from seasoned entrepreneurs with glowing track records to
10/8/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #105: What Founders Can Learn From the Facebook Outage
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, If Facebook can survive a 6-hour outage, so can you. Let's talk about unexpected downtime, which is often a direct consequence of dependency risk.
10/1/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #104: Copycats and Endurance
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Almost every product that ranks #1 on ProductHunt eventually gets copied. Someone sees an interesting product getting traction and decides to build the
9/24/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #103: Audience-building is not Community-Building
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, I've seen people make the following observation more and more: "you shouldn't build an audience; you should build a community!" Now,
9/17/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #102: Pivoting in Public: Risks and Opportunities
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Pivoting a business is scary. Changing what you offer is like switching lanes on a busy motorway: there are many things to consider, and steering
9/10/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #101: Why Reading Fiction Is Important for Entrepreneurs
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, I recently heard a saying: "leaders read, and readers lead." It made me reflect on my reading choices over the last few years and what I have
9/3/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #100 🥳: Consistency, Accountability, and Perseverance
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Welcome to the 100th episode of the Bootstrapped Founder. Today, I will take the opportunity and talk about consistency, accountability, and
8/27/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder 99: Of Tangibility and Lawnmowers
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Ever since Danielle and I moved to Canada, I've been having a few new adventures. Getting to mow the lawn in our backyard was one of them. For a
8/20/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder 98: The Creeping Nature of Stress for a SaaS Founder
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, I did an Ask-me-Anything on ProductHunt this week, and one question stood out to me. Jon Jackson asked me about the kind of life I led while running
8/6/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #96: Hyrum's Law
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Removing features is surprisingly effective for a SaaS founder. But the surprise of how much less maintenance there is for the founder is only the
7/30/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #95: What Watching Gamers Fail for Days Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, I've spent most of the last two weeks watching a group of professional gamers lose. For days straight. During those many hours observing them play,
7/23/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #94: How to Kill Your Business
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Most advice comes in the shape of telling you what to do to be successful. It's instructional, it shows the happy path, and as a reader, I resonate
7/16/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #93: Conversations are at the Core of Engagement
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Conversations are at the Core of Engagement Yelling into the void won't get you anywhere. This is particularly clear while you have zero followers,
7/10/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder 92: The Myth of the Immediate Payoff
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Wherever you look in the founder community, people talk about "how to hack SEO" or "how to hack Twitter Ads." I'm not a fan.
7/2/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #91: Say Thank You
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, I've had an amazing year so far. I launched Zero to Sold a year go to great success, and in May, I launched The Embedded Entrepreneur to even
6/25/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #90: Competition Isn't Always a Business
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, When founders do market research, they are well-advised to look for competition. But many entrepreneurs have a very limited understanding of what
6/18/2021
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Bootstrapped Founder #89: Selfish vs. Selfless: Self-Promotion in Communities
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, I used to think all self-promotion was wrong — at all times. Being raised in Germany, I developed a severe case of tall poppy syndrome — the phenomenon