The Art of Naming Your Business
Earlier this week, fellow creator and podcaster Jay Clouse renamed his podcast from “Creative Elements” to “Creator Science.” That podcast isn’t a new project: it has been live for 140 or so episodes…
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Archive · 2023 / 03
Arvid Kahl’s essays and podcast conversations published in March 2023, from The Bootstrapped Founder archive.
Peter Askew — Domain Expertise
Peter knows how to get good domains and turn them into businesses. He’s selling onions, helps dude ranchers get clients, and will share his approach to monetizing domains as well as purchasing them…
Read the essay →How I Stay Consistent
This week marks the 200th episode of my podcast. For over three years now, I’ve been sharing my thoughts with my fellow founders, creators, and makers — every single week, without fail. Today, I want…
Read the essay →Justin Jackson — Bootstrapping Transistor.fm on Open Standards
Justin Jackson has been successfully bootstrapping Transistor.fm with a small team throughout the ups and downs of a shifting economy. He even rejected massive clients to be able to keep running a…
Read the essay →The SaaS Solution-Workflow Fit
Every single founder out there quickly hears about the product-market fit. But many entrepreneurs go for years before thinking about another such “fit” that is pivotal in how well your market…
Read the essay →Rob Fitzpatrick — Tinkerers, Thinkers, and Teachers
Rob Fitzpatrick is a serial entrepreneur, a writer, a community leader, and a very curious human being. I talk to Rob about building an incredibly complicated business, the world of self-publishing…
Read the essay →Securing your SaaS
When acquirers consider purchasing your Software-as-a-Service business, they want to see many things: an impressive customer base, a promising growth trajectory, and solid financials. But no matter…
Read the essay →Securing Your SaaS with Troy Hunt
Troy Hunt (of HaveIBeenPwned fame) is a cybersecurity expert who has been around long enough to be able to give actionable and pragmatic security advice without complicating things. In our…
Read the essay →Don’t Fall for the Follower Count Trap
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” These are the famous words of economist Charles Goodhart, who introduced this concept in 1975. The idea is that when a particular…
Read the essay →Matt Wensing — Publish Your Juicy Thoughts
Today, I’m talking to Matt Wensing — the founder behind Summit and tweeter of many often controversial things. We talk about bootstrapping a financial SaaS, how to deal with integrations, and when to…
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