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8/5/2022
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Build a Calm Business — TBF #148
The Bootstrapped Founder #148: Fundamentals of a Calm Business
7/29/2022
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Twitter DM anti-patterns to avoid — TBF #147
The Bootstrapped Founder #147: How NOT to Use Twitter DMs
7/22/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #146: It's not a market problem. It's a marketing problem.
Don't blame the market; blame your marketing
7/15/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #145: On Saying "No"
On Saying "No"
7/8/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #144: The Risks and Illusions of the "Post-Exit Retirement"
The Difference Between Owned & Borrowed Audiences
7/1/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #143: Permission to Follow Up
The Difference Between Owned & Borrowed Audiences
6/29/2022
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YouTube Live AmA starting soon & 50% off for all of Arvid’s books & courses for 24h
The Bootstrapped Founder Newsletter by Arvid Kahl Hey there, one of my favorite books is The Lord of the Rings, and it starts with Bilbo having a birthday party. Instead of getting gifts, Bilbo gives
6/24/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #142: Consulting in Public
The Bootstrapped Founder Newsletter by Arvid Kahl Dear founder, Things I Found Interesting This Week Another huge bootstrapping success was reported this week: Pierre de Wulf's ScrapingBee hit
6/17/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #141: Founder Stories are Powerful Assets
The Bootstrapped Founder Newsletter by Arvid Kahl Dear founder, Things I Found Interesting This Week I have launched Find your Following Essentials, a 1-hour Twitter crash course that comes in a 7
6/10/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #140: The Forever Transaction
The Bootstrapped Founder Newsletter by Arvid Kahl Dear founder, Things I Found Interesting This Week I found this wonderfully snarky website called Web3 Is Going Just Great (subtitle: ...and is
6/4/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #139: Building in Public and Legacy
The Bootstrapped Founder Newsletter by Arvid Kahl Dear founder, Things I Found Interesting This Week The fine folks over at TweetHunter have launched a $5000 Maker Grant, and I am overjoyed to see so
5/27/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #138: Parasocial Relationships: Imaginary Friends of the Social Network Age
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, two very interesting things have happened in my world this week. First off, ProfitWell, the bootstrapped business spearheaded by Patrick Campbell, was
5/20/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #137: Should Freelancers Offer Free Trials?
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Recently, I have gotten a lot of offers from freelancers and consultants to do some work for me for free. In an ideal world, we'd offer our
5/13/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #136: Choose Your Own Adventure: Creator, Curator, Commentator, or Connector
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, People love to put other people in boxes. Metaphorically, of course. We do love our categories and classifications. On social media, we can leverage
5/6/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #135: Scalable Customer Service for Bootstrappers
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, When we sold FeedbackPanda back in 2019 for a life-changing amount of money, we still ran it as a two-person business. Although we had over 5000
4/29/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #134: Managing Expectations: Making Good (on) Promises.
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, Expectation management. What is that? It sure sounds like mind control. I don't think my expectations are anything that someone else can manage.
4/22/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #133: You Don’t Need to be an Extrovert to Build in Public — an Introvert’s Perspective
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, One of the major reasons people don't start building in public is that they don't want to stand in the proverbial spotlight. They don't
4/8/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #131: Seven Kinds of Entrepreneurial Debt
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, When I need to relax, I paint little miniatures. It's a hobby I have had since I was a teenager, and once a nerd, always a nerd. But as an adult
4/1/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #130: Entrepreneurial Anti-Patterns — What to Avoid When You're Starting a Business
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, They say all roads lead to Rome. Well, reality proves them wrong. And who are "they" anyway? When we look at successful businesses, we see
3/25/2022
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Bootstrapped Founder #129: What Founders Can Learn from Professional WoW Gamers
The Bootstrapped Founder Logo Dear founder, If you want to see tenacity at work, watch professional gamers racing to be the first to kill the latest dungeon boss in World of Warcraft. Every time