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2/23/2024
14 : 24
Payment Platforms for Solopreneurs — The Bootstrapped Founder 297
Making money is hard, and for solo founders, even taking money is hard. Let's look at how to best handle payments today.
2/21/2024
14 : 14
Yong-Soo Chung — Surviving Serial Entrepreneurship — The Bootstrapped Founder 296
Yong-Soo Chung (@yongsoochung) is a champion of the Personal Holding Company: he owns several businesses, and doesn't lose his mind. How?!
2/19/2024
2 : 44
RoxCodes — Building Dreams and Letting Go — The Bootstrapped Founder 294
Rox (@RoxCodes) recently sold his SaaS thumbnailtest.com. But he's pretty conflicted about the sale.
2/19/2024
1 : 54
Forever Business or Exit? — The Bootstrapped Founder 295
Lots of indie hackers and solopreneurs have a big exit as their main goal. And that might be a problem.
2/9/2024
15 : 24
Local AI (GPT on your own servers) — The Bootstrapped Founder 293
Did you know that you can run a ChatGPT-like system on your laptop? (I've seen iPhones running these LLMs, too.)
2/7/2024
14 : 14
Josh Pigford — The Open-Source Transformation of Maybe — The Bootstrapped Founder 292
Josh Pigford (@shpigford), who created Maybe and Baremetrics, talks about bringing his financial tool back to life by making it open-source!
2/2/2024
14 : 14
To Pivot or Not to Pivot — The Bootstrapped Founder 291
This week I made a choice. And it has a lot to do with focus and opportunity. And, most of all, money.
1/31/2024
14 : 14
Spencer Patterson — Mastering Market Niches and Startup Growth — The Bootstrapped Founder 290
Spencer Patterson (@SpencePatterson) is a former financial advisor turned tech entrepreneur with a multi-milion exit under his belt.
1/26/2024
14 : 14
Rethinking the Creator Economy — The Bootstrapped Founder 289
Is the creator economy a misnomer? When I think about creators and the effort and time they spend on their work, it seems similar to a 9-to-5 job.
1/24/2024
14 : 14
Thibault Louis-Lucas — Selling a $10M SaaS and Building Another One — The Bootstrapped Founder 288
Thibault Louis-Lucas (@tibo_maker), or Tibo for short, is the indie hacker and innovator behind successful ventures like TweetHunter and Taplio.
1/19/2024
14 : 14
White Glove Onboarding — The Bootstrapped Founder 287
How can you provide white-glove customer service if you don't even know what it looks like?
1/17/2024
14 : 14
Asia Orangio — Crafting a Growth Blueprint for Emerging Startups — The Bootstrapped Founder 286
Asia Orangio (@AsiaOrangio), CEO of Demand Maven, joins me as we dive into the world of customer discovery and (go-to) market strategies.
1/12/2024
14 : 14
Voices of Influence: How Expert Feedback Shapes SaaS Success — The Bootstrapped Founder 285
Influence without being an "influencer"
1/12/2024
9 : 25
Kasey Jones — The Art of Strategic Self-Revelation in the Digital Age — The Bootstrapped Founder 284
Kasey Jones (@ABetterJones) is a maven in the realm of authentic online identity.
1/5/2024
14 : 14
Business Validation Traps — The Bootstrapped Founder 283
Validation signals you should NOT listen to.
1/3/2024
14 : 14
Kevon Cheung — Embracing Vulnerability in Startup Culture — The Bootstrapped Founder 282
Dominic Monn (@dqmonn) teaches you how to build in public.
12/29/2023
14 : 14
AI and the Future of SaaS — The Bootstrapped Founder 281
Here's what AI progress in 2024 will bring for SaaS founders
12/27/2023
14 : 14
Dominic Monn — Crafting a Thriving Online Mentorship Community — The Bootstrapped Founder 280
Dominic Monn (@dqmonn) teaches you how to build a SaaS marketplace.
12/22/2023
14 : 14
Fear-Setting my SaaS: What’s Enough? — The Bootstrapped Founder 279
Today, I will look into my business-building plans and share with you how I approach it by going through the exercise myself.
12/20/2023
14 : 14
Nicolas Cole — Harnessing the Written Word for Profit — The Bootstrapped Founder 278
Nicolas Cole (@Nicolascole77) will teach you how to make money with writing.