From the archive
Arvid Kahl’s essays and podcast conversations published in May 2020, from The Bootstrapped Founder archive.
Most bootstrapped businesses offer monthly subscription plans. The revenue that is generated from your customers that way is incredibly reliable. If you know how many customers you have, you know…
Read the essay →You may have started with subscription plans that turn out to be problematic. At FeedbackPanda, we had started with a $5/month plan. After a few months of offering that, we sunset that plan because…
Read the essay →We don’t often talk about employee compensation in the bootstrapped space, as many businesses have few employees, and only start hiring when it’s absolutely necessary. So making sure our employees…
Read the essay →It’s important to understand that you can always change your prices. You own your business, and you can change everything about it. Most payment providers allow you to have an infinite number of…
Read the essay →While most of your customers will likely enjoy your product, some won’t. Some customers will be complaining a lot, asking for features that you don’t intend to ever build, or are generally very hard…
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