The Myth of The Finished Product
Before the internet made transferring large amounts of data cheap and easy, software used to be distributed on CDs or DVDs. For any given application, there was the “Golden Master,” a final version…
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Archive · 2020 / 02
Arvid Kahl’s essays and podcast conversations published in February 2020, from The Bootstrapped Founder archive.
Solution Validation Doesn’t Happen In a Vacuum: How to Talk To Your Future Customers
As entrepreneurs, we are good at coming up with ideas. We envision solutions to the problems that trouble the audience we have chosen to help. We think deeply about a problem, mentally shape a…
Read the essay →Make It Sell Itself: On Referral Systems
One year into running FeedbackPanda, we released a referral system. It was an immediate success, and it stayed that way ever since. When we sold the business, around 40% of new signups came through…
Read the essay →Problem Validation: Making Sure You’re Talking To The Right People
“Talk to your customers,” they say, “because that’s the only way to build something people want.” The collective wisdom of the bootstrapper scene is not wrong. But talking to your customers is only…
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