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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…
Read the essay →When you’re building an audience, people will resonate with your content differently over time. In the beginning, when you don’t have too many followers, your reputation within the community may not…
Read the essay →Imagine waking up one morning only to find your Twitter account suspended. If you’re trying to build an audience on Twitter, this is your worst nightmare. And it’s an entirely possible scenario. It…
Read the essay →There will be days when you feel like you have nothing to say. You might wonder why you should be the one talking about anything when there are people out there who are much more experienced than…
Read the essay →Being a founder is hard. It’s a well-known trope in the business world that giving up a comfortable job with a reliable salary is a risky move. Whenever I talk about how entrepreneurship is a…
Read the essay →Some days, I don’t feel like doing anything entrepreneurial at all. It’s not that I’m burned out or disinterested, not at all. But there are those days where all I want to do is curl up on the couch…
Read the essay →A few years ago, I was spending three hours a day sitting on a train, zooming through Germany, commuting from my home to work and back. During those days, I would consume a lot of podcasts, books…
Read the essay →I often find myself trapped in the stories I tell myself. This week, I switched out the payment system of my SaaS PermanentLink. This is a critical part of my business, so I expected the actual…
Read the essay →A third-grade math teacher is particularly good at teaching one specific audience: third-grade math students. Every year, a new group of students appears, and they receive a top-notch math education.…
Read the essay →If there is one polarizing topic in the bootstrapped SaaS space, it’s running lifetime deals for a subscription business. Founders either love the idea of offering a one-time-payment for “forever…
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