Competition Isn’t Always a Business
When founders do market research, they are well-advised to look for competition. But many entrepreneurs have a very limited understanding of what “competition” means and therefore overlook many…
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Archive · 2021 / 06
Arvid Kahl’s essays and podcast conversations published in June 2021, from The Bootstrapped Founder archive.
Selfish vs. Selfless: Self-Promotion in Communities
I used to think all self-promotion was wrong — at all times. Being raised in Germany, I developed a severe case of tall poppy syndrome — the phenomenon of people holding back so they wouldn’t stand…
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Let’s look at what makes a problem interesting enough to note it down in our search for the perfect business opportunity. Different people will define the word “problem” differently. I think that a…
Read the essay →The Line Between Stealing and Being Inspired
This week, a Twitter friend reached out to me and asked this question: “where’s the line between being inspired by the competition and stealing?” That got me thinking. We don’t have a clear code of…
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