From the archive
Arvid Kahl 0:00Welcome to The Bootstrapped Founder! Today, I’m talking to Simon Hoiberg. He shares his strategy for running two businesses and a YouTube channel without burning out. We’ll talk about business validation, building reusable pr
Read the essay →(The mathematical notation in the title means “’For all 𝑦 there exists a 𝑥’ is not the same as ‘There exists an 𝑥 for all 𝑦”.) We’re always on the hunt for the silver bullet. The Golden Ticket. The quick fix. Even when writing resumes.
Read the essay →Arvid Kahl 0:00Welcome to The Bootstrapped Founder. Today, I’m talking to Evelyn J. Starr. Evelyn is a brand building expert. And we’ll talk about finding the right niche, having a community centric, long term perspective and how brands cha
Read the essay →In the world of entrepreneurship, there’s been a growing trend towards building in public – the concept of sharing the journey of creating a product or a business with a public audience. I’m a big fan of this approach to building something
Read the essay →Arvid Kahl 0:00Today, I’m talking to Jack Ellis, the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a privacy conscious web analytics business that I personally use for a lot of my web properties. The company that Jack co-founded with Paul Jarvis competes
Read the essay →People would rather sift through fake AI results than see yet another ad. Something is happening in advertising, and the creator economy is affected greatly. The shift towards trust-based advertising is a wake-up call for founders and creat
Read the essay →Arvid Kahl 0:00Hello and welcome to The Bootstrapped Founder. Today, I’m talking to my dear old friend, Fatih Kadir Akin or FKA for short. We discussed the unexpected journey of building a successful business out of a simple idea. Fatih sha
Read the essay →When AI researchers Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin tried to explain generative AI to journalists in early 2022 —when just a few hundred researchers and early adopters were toying with the new tech and long before it became mainstream— journa
Read the essay →“As an entrepreneur, you need someone you’ve been through shit with already” — and that’s exactly why Dagobert and Lucie are the perfect power couple co-founders. I chatted with @dagobertrenouf about overcoming struggle, growing a business
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