The Toxicity of Growth Hacks
One of the first things you learn about when you look into building an audience is the existence of growth hacks. You’ll have a hard time finding a Twitter guide that doesn’t mention the concept as a…
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Archive · 2022 / 09
Arvid Kahl’s essays and podcast conversations published in September 2022, from The Bootstrapped Founder archive.
Problem Discovery for Calm SaaS Businesses
If you want to build a business by selling a product that people genuinely need, your solution needs to solve a critical problem that your prospective customers are willing to pay for—a problem so…
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Few fundamental choices impact the trajectory of your business as much as choosing the market you’ll be operating in. If you get this wrong, it will mean pivots, corrections, and many stressful days.…
Read the essay →On Art and Artifice
When generative AI systems can create artworks that win Fine Arts competitions, we have reached a point where bleeding-edge technological experiments start seeping into the larger cultural…
Read the essay →Infrastructure of a Calm SaaS Business
In a frantic world, calmness is not found in reaching a state or a goal. It’s found in structure, process, and ritual. A calm business rests on a foundation of intentional infrastructure choices that…
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