The Bootstrapped Founder
By Arvid Kahl
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Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public.
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422: The Things Your Customers Don't Care About
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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421: Why You Should Never Start a Software Business
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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420: AI for the Code-Writing Purist: How to Use AI Without Surrendering Your Keyboard
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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419: The Missing Piece in Your Validation Strategy
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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418: Why AI-Generated Code Hurts Your Exit
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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417: The Best Tech Stack in the Age of AI
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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416: The Ownership Paradox: What Do You Really Control in Your Software Business?
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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415: Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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414: The Pure Amateur is Vanishing: Why Everyone's a Performer Now
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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413: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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412: The $0.20/Day AI System That Converts Trial Users Into Paying Customers
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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411: The Currents of a Founder
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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410: Building for the Age of AI Consumers
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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409: James Phoenix — Claude Code Masterclass
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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408: The Podscan Ideas Vault: Engineering as Marketing
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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407: Nick Groeneveld — Exploring AI's Impact on Modern Design
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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406: Making Your Business Sellable (Even If You Never Plan to Sell)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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405: The Friction Paradox: Why AI Might Be Making Us Worse at What We Do
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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404: The Transcription Challenge: Building Infrastructure That Scales With The World
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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403: Amar Ghose — From Non-Technical Founder to SaaS Innovator
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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402: A $2 Billion Industry Built on Digital Duct Tape
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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401: Vova Feldman — Mastering Entrepreneurship in the Payments Sector
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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400: The Hidden Revolution: AI Is Democratizing Coding Mentorship
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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399: NativePHP: How Simon Hamp & Shane Rosenthal are Building & Monetizing PHP on Mobile
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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398: The Hidden Cost of Being First
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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397: When Profitability Disappears — A Podscan Reality Check
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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396: Jack Friks — Building Tools That Empower Without Overwhelming
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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395: From Code Writer to Code Editor: My AI-Assisted Development Workflow
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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394: Taylor Otwell — The (Quite Entrepreneurial) Creator of Laravel
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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393: AI is a Threat to SaaS Multiples
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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392: Building AI Businesses Without Breaking the Internet
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May 30, 2025 |
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391: AI is Flipping Our Relationship with Technology
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May 23, 2025 |
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390: When to Choose Local LLMs vs APIs
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May 16, 2025 |
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389: The Founder's First Hire: When to Let Go of Your Weaknesses
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May 09, 2025 |
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388: The Job To Be Done: Understanding Customer Value Communication
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May 02, 2025 |
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387: Your API Documentation is Not For Developers Anymore
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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386: One Year of Podscan: Reflecting on Tech & Business Decisions
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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385: The Balancing Act: Free Trials, Value Demonstration, and Business Sustainability
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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384: Podscan's Profitability Milestone: What's Next?
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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383: Repositioning Podscan: From Monitoring to Data Platform
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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382: I went to MicroConf in New Orleans
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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381: How AI Changes Famous Laws in Software and Entrepreneurship
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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380: Experiment Report: Trying New Things
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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379: Anne-Laure Le Cunff — Tiny Experiments
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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378: Think with AI, Do with People
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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377: Virality is Poisonous
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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376: Justin Moore — Becoming a Sponsor Magnet
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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375: Mute those “Dings”
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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374: Indie Hacking Databases at Scale
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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373: Delete Your Backlog
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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372: Indie Hacking & the Singularity
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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371: Brian Sierakowski — Mastering Product Communication
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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370: Building Systems That Work While You Don't
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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369: Expect-AI-tions
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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368: Johannes Jäschke — From Hypnosis Innovation to Business Exit
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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367: The Biggest Opportunity of 2025
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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366: Omar Zenhom — Crafting Success Without a Tech Background
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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365: Arvid's Year in Review: 2024
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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364: Breaking my Own Rules
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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363: Ben Rometsch — From Side Projects to Industry Giants
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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362: Startup Opportunities in Podcasting
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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361: Pierre de Wulf — Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to Millions
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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360: Product-Market Fit & Time-to-First-Value
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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359: Connor Turland: Pioneering the Future of Bookkeeping with Ceedar.ai
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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358: Love Is For Those Who Love the Work
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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357: (Free) Trial & Error
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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356: James Phoenix — Mastering Code & AI for the Modern Developer
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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355: The Age of the Gatekeeper Is Over
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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354: The Art of Productive Procrastination
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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353: Podscan’s Dream Customer (Acquisition) Strategy
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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352: Running Lean at Scale
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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351: From Overload to Opportunity
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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350: Building Your Castle in Someone Else's Kingdom
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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349: Navigating Constraints as a Bootstrapper
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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348: Observability in Software Businesses
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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347: The AI-Powered Solopreneur
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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346: When Podcasts Attack: The Unexpected Challenges of External Data
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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345: Scrape or Be Scraped
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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344: Andrew Davies — The Power of a Merchant of Record
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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344: Should Indie Hackers Go to Tech Conferences?
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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342: The Evolution of Coding in the AI Era
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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341: Striking a Balance
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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340: kerollmops — From Hackathon to Success: The Meilisearch Story
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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339: Does Your SaaS Need a “User Tour?”
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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338: “Working In” vs “Working On” the Business
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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337: Doing Things that Don’t Scale …Unintentionally
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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336: The 7 Deadly Sins of Indie Hacking
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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335: Tipping Over
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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334: Sincere, not Serious
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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333: Kitze — Juggling Projects, ADHD, and the Indie Hacker Lifestyle
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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332: Beyond Small Bets — Embracing the Big Play
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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331: Geoff Roberts — Playing the Long Game
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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330: 50% New Users Overnight… and a Burning Server
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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329: "AI For The Rest of Us"
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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328: Negotiating Bootstrapper Funding with Tyler Tringas
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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327: Two (Surprisingly Scary) Tales of Platform Risk
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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326: Zeno Rocha — From Bootstrapping to YCombinator
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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325: Indie Hackers’ Myopic View of AI
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May 31, 2024 |
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324: Tim Schumacher — The Bootstrapper's Mindset
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May 29, 2024 |
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323: The Power of the Dream Customer List
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May 24, 2024 |
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322: Noah Kagan — Early Stage Founder Hurdles & How to Jump Them
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May 22, 2024 |
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321: Unexpected Downtime: Stress as Enhancement vs. Stress as Panic
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May 17, 2024 |
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320: Dr. Jessica Gold — Emotional Resilience and Self-Care for Founders
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May 15, 2024 |
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319: My SaaS Server Exploded (& How I Salvaged It)
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May 10, 2024 |
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318: Louie Bacaj — Betting Small to Win Big
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May 08, 2024 |
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317: Podscan, 2 months and $1k MRR in
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May 03, 2024 |
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316: Marybeth Alexander — Knowledgebase Secrets
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May 01, 2024 |
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315: MicroConf Atlanta — My Biggest Learnings
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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314: Nicolai Klemke — Switching Lanes: Physics PhD to Indie Hacker
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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313: Challenges of Offering an API
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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312: Aaron Francis — You're FIRED!
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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311: Finding my Ideal Customer Profile
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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310: Jessica Malnik — How to Communicate as an Indie Hacker
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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309: Funded!
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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308: Michael Taylor — Prompt Engineering for Fun & Profit
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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307: Addressing my Weaknesses
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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306: Johannes Radig — Traveling the World and Raising Prices
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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305: AI Hype — The Straight Line Bias and the Fear of not Keeping Up
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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304: Tyler Tringas — Investing in Bootstrapped SaaS
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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303: How I Deal with Investment Offers
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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302: Nick Groeneveld — Speaking the Language of your Customers
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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301: Podscan, One Month In (MRR, Expenses, Marketing Tactics)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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300: Marc Louvion — Becoming a Product Launch Beast
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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299: Adversarial Thinking in Entrepreneurship
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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298: Sharath Kuruganty — Letting Go Isn't Quitting
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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297: Payment Platforms for Solopreneurs
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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296: Yong-Soo Chung — Surviving Serial Entrepreneurship
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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295: Forever Business or Exit?
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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294: RoxCodes — Building Dreams and Letting Go
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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293: Local AI
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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292: Josh Pigford — The Open-Source Transformation of Maybe
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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291: To Pivot or Not to Pivot
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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290: Spencer Patterson — Mastering Market Niches and Startup Growth
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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289: Rethinking the Creator Economy
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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288: Thibault Louis-Lucas — Selling a $10M SaaS and Building Another One
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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287: White Glove Onboarding
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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286: Asia Orangio — Crafting a Growth Blueprint for Emerging Startups
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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285: Voices of Influence: How Expert Feedback Shapes SaaS Success
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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284: Kasey Jones — The Art of Strategic Self-Revelation in the Digital Age
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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283: Business Validation Traps
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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282: Kevon Cheung — Embracing Vulnerability in Startup Culture
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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281: AI and the Future of SaaS
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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280: Dominic Monn — Crafting a Thriving Online Mentorship Community
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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279: Fear-Setting my SaaS: What’s Enough?
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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278: Nicolas Cole — Harnessing the Written Word for Profit
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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277: NoCode, AI, and the Future of Software Entrepreneurship
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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276: Khe Hy — Breaking Free from the Rat Race
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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275: I’m starting a new SaaS Journey
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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274: Amanda Natividad — Mastering Content Creation and Audience Engagement
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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273: Freedom vs. Autonomy
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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272: Andrew Hodson — A Mechanic's Leap into Tech Entrepreneurship
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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271: Arvid's Top 15 Book Recommendations for Founders
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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270: Rob Walling — Stair-Stepping into SaaS Success
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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269: Embracing Obstacles for Opportunity
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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268: Channing Allen — Myths and Realities of the Indie Hacking Scene
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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267: Risks and Rewards of Building on OpenAI
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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266: Sakshi Shukla — Understanding Identity and Being the Only One
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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265: "Authenticity" in the Digital Age
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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264: Dickie Bush — Harness the Power of Digital Writing
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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263: Indie Hacking Isn't Dead — It's Just Less Hacky
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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262: Pieter Levels — The Indie Hacker’s Guide to AI Startups
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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261: Accessibility for Profit
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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260: Milly Tamati — The Power and Potential of Generalists
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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259: Monetizing Micro-Communities
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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258: Aaron Francis — The Power of Sharing Expertise
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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257: Proof of Work: How Indie Founders Build Defensible Businesses
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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256: Brennan Dunn — This Is Personal
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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255: Pet Rock Projects (And Why They… Rock)
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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254: Aprilynne Alter — Behind the Scenes of a Successful YouTuber
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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253: Focusing on Customer Retention Features
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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252: Erica Schneider — Build Your Personal Platform (And Not Just a Brand)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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251: What I Learned From 250 Podcast Episodes
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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250: Amanda Goetz — The Antidote to Hustle Culture
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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249: Avoiding the Entrepreneurial Planning Trap
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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248: Ruben Gamez — Cracking the E-Signature Market
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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247: You’re Not “Too Late”: Capitalizing on Pre-Validated Ideas
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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246: Corey Haines — Mastering Product Marketing
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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245: Take a Break
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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244: Emmet Gibney — Referred Into the Role of CEO
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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243: Bootstrapped SaaS Exit Planning
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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242: Louis Pereira — When an Indie Hacker Strikes Gold
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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241: Human Creativity Amidst AI Dominance
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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240: Danny Postma — An Indie Hacker's Business Evolution
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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239: Things That Kill The Village
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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238: Brian Sierakowski — Leading an Acquired Business
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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237: Eventual Reciprocity
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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236: Tony Dinh — Ups and Downs of an Indie Hacker Journey
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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235: The Bad Kind of Attention
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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234: Jason Cohen — Two Exits & Two Unicorns
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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233: Entrepreneurship isn't genetic. It’s memetic.
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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232: Andrew McIntosh — First-Generation Entrepreneurs
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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231: Responding Fast to Customers — A Good Idea?
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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230: Moritz Dausinger — Serial Indie Entrepreneurship
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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229: Utility, Pricing, and Entrepreneurship
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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228: Kevin McArdle — The Man Who Changed My Life (and Could Change Yours)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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227: Self-Censorship on Twitter
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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226: Paul Millerd — Walking The Pathless Path
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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225: Twitter Teardowns: 3 Low Hanging Fruit to Massively Improve Your Twitter Presence
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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224: Dr. Julie Gurner — Founder Mental Health 101
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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223: How to Build in Public Without Revealing Too Much
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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222: Joe Masilotti — Building in Public and Monetizing Open Source
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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221: Why Entrepreneurs are Choosing 'Short-Lived Businesses' Over 'Forever Businesses
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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220: Simon Høiberg — Building a SaaS That Works for You
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May 31, 2023 |
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219: ∀𝑦∃𝑥 ≠ ∃𝑥∀𝑦: The Dangerous Misconception Founders Have About Their Market
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May 26, 2023 |
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218: Evelyn J. Starr — The Evolution of a Brand
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May 24, 2023 |
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217: The Flip Side: When Not to Build in Public
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May 19, 2023 |
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216: Jack Ellis — Taking on Google as a Bootstrapper
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May 17, 2023 |
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215: In Pod We Trust: How Creators Can Best Juggle Credibility & Sponsored Content
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May 12, 2023 |
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214: Fatih Kadir Akın — Selling a Global Sticker Business
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May 09, 2023 |
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213: The Rubber Band Effect
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May 05, 2023 |
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212: Dagobert Renouf — The Emotional Journey of Entrepreneurship
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May 03, 2023 |
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211: Writing with a Nemesis: Using ChatGPT to Strengthen Your Arguments
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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210: Dr. Sherry Walling — The Reality of Burnout for Entrepreneurs
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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209: MicroConf US '23 Recap — What Happens When 250 SaaS Founders Meet
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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208: Louis Nicholls — Growing Your Newsletter
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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207: ChatGPT: Goldmine or Minefield for Indie Hackers?
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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206: Marie Poulin & Benjamin Borowski — Digital Permaculture
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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205: Artificial Scarcity Damages the Creator Economy
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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204: Josh Spector — Saying Less and Making More
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Bonus: Arvid on "First Class Founders" by Yong-Soo Chung
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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203: The Art of Naming Your Business
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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202: Peter Askew — Domain Expertise
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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201: How I Stay Consistent
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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200: Justin Jackson — Bootstrapping Transistor.fm on Open Standards
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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199: The SaaS Solution-Workflow Fit
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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198: Rob Fitzpatrick — Tinkerers, Thinkers, and Teachers
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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197: Securing your SaaS
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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196: Troy Hunt — Securing Your SaaS
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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195: Don't Fall for the Follower Count Trap
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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194: Matt Wensing — Publish Your Juicy Thoughts
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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193: Stair-Stepping with Plugins: Platforms to Build On
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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192: Colleen Schnettler — Stair-Stepping into SaaS
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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191: Writing for Founders
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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190: Hassan Osman — Writing on the Side
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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189: Be The Kindest Person in the Room
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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188: KP — Building an Authentic Personal Brand
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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187: Negative Reviews are Good for You
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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186: Brennan Dunn — Mastering Email Marketing
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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185: The Monkey and the Pedestal
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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184: Laura Elizabeth — Building Software Products As a Non-Technical Founder
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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183: Expanding Your Opportunity Surface
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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182: Daniel Fayle — Door-to-door to $2M ARR
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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181: The Role of Trust in Remote Work
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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180: Marissa Goldberg — Running a Remote-First Business
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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179: Founder Mental Health Pitfalls
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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178: Patrick Campbell — Life After a $200mil Exit
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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177: Diversify Your Creator Portfolio
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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176: Jay Clouse — Creative Commitments
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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175: Realistic Building in Public for Introverted Founders
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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174: Ana Bibikova — The Introvert Superpower
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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[Bonus] Sahil Lavingia — Gumroad’s Pricing Disaster
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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173: Build a Defensible Indie Business
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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172: Andrew Gazdecki — Building a Sellable Business
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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171: Avoid Vanity Metrics
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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170: Rosie Sherry — Building Profitable Communities
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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169: Paying the Bills While Building Your First Indie Business
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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168: Jakob Greenfeld — Writing Your Way to Clarity
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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167: Find Business Ideas on Social Media
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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166: Daniel Vassallo — Building a Portfolio of Small Bets
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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165: Why You Shouldn’t Sell Your Business
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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164: Damon Chen — Building a $400k/year SaaS
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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163: When Should You Go from Side-Project to Full-Time?
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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162: Michele Hansen — Moving from Side Project to Full Time
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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161: Calm Business Misconceptions
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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160: Operating a Calm SaaS Business
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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159: Pricing for Calm SaaS Businesses
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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158: Product Development for Calm SaaS Businesses
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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157: Solution Exploration for Calm SaaS Businesses
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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156: The Toxicity of Growth Hacks
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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155: Problem Discovery for Calm SaaS Businesses
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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154: Market Analysis for Calm SaaS Businesses
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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153: On Art and Artifice — When AI creates Masterpieces We Can't Ignore
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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152: Infrastructure of a Calm SaaS Business
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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151: Entrepreneurial Strategies & Anti-Patterns for a Calm SaaS Business
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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150: Business Models for a Calm SaaS Business
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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149: Fundamentals of a Calm SaaS Business
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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148: Fundamentals of a Calm Business
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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147: How NOT to Use Twitter DMs
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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146: Don't blame the market; blame your marketing
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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145: On Saying "No"
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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144: The Risks and Illusions of the "Post-Exit Retirement"
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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143: Permission to Follow Up
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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142: Consulting in Public
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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141: Founder Stories are Powerful Assets
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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140: The Forever Transaction
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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139: Building in Public and Legacy
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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138: Parasocial Relationships
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May 27, 2022 |
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137: Should Freelancers Offer Free Trials?
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May 20, 2022 |
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136: Choose Your Own Adventure: Creator, Curator, Commentator, or Connector
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May 13, 2022 |
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135: Scalable Customer Service for Bootstrappers
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May 06, 2022 |
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134: Managing Expectations: Making Good (on) Promises.
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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133: You Don’t Need to be an Extrovert to Build in Public — an Introvert’s Perspective
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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132: Why Founders End Up Unemployable
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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131: Seven Kinds of Entrepreneurial Debt
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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130: Entrepreneurial Anti-Patterns — What to Avoid When You're Starting a Business
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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129: What Founders Can Learn from Professional WoW Gamers
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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128: How I Find Twitter Content Ideas
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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127: How I (Fortunately) Failed to Launch an NFT Collection
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Bonus: A Conversation with Michele Hansen (on the Software Social Podcast)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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126: The SaaS Market Maturity Paradox
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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125: The Power of the Narrative when Building in Public
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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124: Building in Public and Negativity
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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123: Purchasing Power Parity Pricing
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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122: Being Imperfect in Public
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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121: The Performative Nature of Building in Public: A View From the Inside
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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120: Fear-Setting
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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119: The Power of Repetition
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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118: Building in Public: Maintaining a Positive Self-Image
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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117: What Founders Can Learn From Web3 Community-Building (And What They Can't)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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116: Twitter: The Gathering. How and Where to Find the Right Followers
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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115: Make it Easy to Cancel
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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114: Building in Public: How to Build a Minipoly
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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113: Building in Public: How Radical Transparency Hurts Founders
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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112: Building in Public: Oversharing
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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111: Passive Income and Entrepreneurship
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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110: Building in Public: What to Share at Which Stage of Your Journey
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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109: Building in Public: Taking Breaks
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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108: Building in Public: Balancing Building and Sharing
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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107: Too Little, Too Much: Advice and How to Take It
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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106: Burnout
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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105: What Founders Can Learn From the Facebook Outage
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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104: Copycats and Endurance
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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103: Audience-building is not Community-Building
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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102: Pivoting in Public: Risks and Opportunities
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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101: Why Reading Fiction Is Important for Entrepreneurs
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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100: Consistency, Accountability, and Perseverance
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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99: Of Tangibility and Lawnmowers
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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98: The Creeping Nature of Stress for a SaaS Founder
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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97: Why Competition is Good For Business
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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96: Hyrum's Law
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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95: What Watching Gamers Fail for Days Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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94: How to Kill Your Business
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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93: Conversations are at the Core of Engagement
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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92: The Myth of the Immediate Payoff
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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91: Say Thank You
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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90: Competition Isn't Always a Business
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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89: Selfish vs. Selfless: Self-Promotion in Communities
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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88: Properties of an Interesting Problem
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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87: The Line Between Stealing and Being Inspired
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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86: Audience-Building and Relatable Content
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May 28, 2021 |
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85: Platform Risk and the Three Kinds of Audiences
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May 21, 2021 |
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84: Impostor Syndrome and Building Capital
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May 14, 2021 |
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83: Entrepreneurship, Job Security, and Wealth Creation
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May 07, 2021 |
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82: Accountability Systems for Founders
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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81: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Navigating Bootstrapping Advice
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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80: SaaS, Self-Talk, and Many Small Bets
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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79: Audience Graduation
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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78: Lifetime Deals and SaaS Businesses
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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77: The Goals of Audience-Building
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Bonus: A Conversation Between Michele Hansen, Colleen Schnettler, and Danielle Simpson, Co-Founder of Feedback Panda
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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75: The Shape of a Problem in the Wild
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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74: On Re-Using Content
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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73: Audience Discovery: The Importance of Budget
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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72: What founders can learn from Twitch streamers about building in public
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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71: Fear of Disappointing Your Customers
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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70: When Your Business Gets Cloned
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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69: Jargon and Community
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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68: The Grief and Loss of Selling a Business
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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67: The Two Goals of Audience-Building
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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66: How I Use Twitter
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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65: On Offering Public APIs for Your SaaS
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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64: Motivation Will Eventually Go Away: Build Accountability Systems Instead
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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63: Audience-Building through Podcasting
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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62: Avoiding the Validation Trap
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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61: Open-Source and Bootstrapping
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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60: Tech Stacks and Indie Hacking
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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59: Rewards and Perils of Being Your Own Customer
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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58: When Privacy and Customer Value Clash
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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57: How I Approach Pricing for a Brand New SaaS
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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56: Sunk Cost Fallacy Engineering
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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55: Customer Lock-In and "Insurance Features"
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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54: Limiting Beliefs
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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53: Early Tech Choices and Analysis Paralysis
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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52: "Audience-First" Is Not Just "Building an Audience"
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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51: Finding an Audience for Your Side Business
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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50: Priming Your Business for Due Diligence
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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49: Preparing for the Sale From Day One: Getting the Documentation Right
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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48: At a Crossroads: The Different Kinds of Exits
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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A Unified Voice: Staying Consistent When You Grow
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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How I Self-Published Zero to Sold, a Bestselling Book on Bootstrapping
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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45: Positioning Is Where It's At
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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44: You Want a Tribe
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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43: When You Reach Your Limits: Growing a Company Beyond the Founder(s)
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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42: The Power of Omission: Killing Features for Fun and Profit
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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41: Made to Stick: Shaping an Extensible Product
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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40: Standard Operating Procedures: Managing Your Future Self
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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39: Roadmaps and You: Building a Future Together
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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38: Customer Retention: How to Keep Them Around / The Zero to Sold Launch
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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37: Customer Exploration: Seeing Through Your Customer’s Eyes
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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36: Being Small Is a Benefit: How to Leverage Being a Bootstrapper
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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35: Spreading the Word: How to Do Marketing on a Shoestring Budget
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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34: Seller Beware: Pricing Models That Can Break Your Business
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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33: Offer Yearly Plans from the Start
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May 29, 2020 |
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32. How to Deal with Plans That No Longer Work / Profit Sharing
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May 22, 2020 |
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31. Price Is Not Set In Stone: Strategies For Increasing Your Revenue
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May 15, 2020 |
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30. You May Be Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Re-Evaluating Your Audience
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May 08, 2020 |
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29. Build for Value, Not for Applause: Product Management Under Heavy Constraints
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May 01, 2020 |
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28. First Things First: Feature Prioritization Frameworks
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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27. Forget Goals, Create Systems: Foundations of a Sustainable Bootstrapped Business
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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26. The Boring Truth of Successful Products That Survive
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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25. Making Tech Choices: Don’t Add Risk to an Already Risky Business
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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24. Not in House: On Reinventing the Wheel
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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23. Surviving a Recession as a Bootstrapped Business
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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22. How to Release as a Bootstrapper: Often, Early, and Safely
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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21. Scaling Your SaaS Without Scaling Your Anxiety
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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20. Too Many Eyes: Why Bootstrapped Companies Stop Being Transparent (Eventually)
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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19. Continuous Validation: Staying in Touch with Your Market
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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18. The Do's and Don'ts of the Minimum Viable Product
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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17. So You Got an Offer: How to Do Due Diligence on Your Potential Acquirer
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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16. Churn, Retention, and Revenue: What Makes Customers Stick Around and Why That's Important
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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15. How to Do Maximum Customer Support with Minimum Effort
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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14. The Bootstrapper’s Plight: The Social Headaches of Building a Business
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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13. The Myth of The Finished Product
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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12. Real and Imaginary Responsibilities of a Bootstrapped Founder
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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11. Your Initial Pricing Will Never Be Right, But Try Anyway
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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10. Do You Need a Co-Founder?
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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9. Finding the Most Painful Problem in a Market
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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8. Solution Validation Doesn’t Happen In a Vacuum: How to Talk To Your Future Customers
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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7. Determining the Size of a Market
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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6. Finding a Market to Build a SaaS
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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5. The Power of the Niche
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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4. Finding the Critical Problem: How to Work on The Right Things
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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3. Make It Sell Itself: On Referral Systems
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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2. Problem Validation: Making Sure You’re Talking To The Right People
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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1. The FeedbackPanda Story
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Feb 05, 2020 |