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The concept of eventual reciprocity has been incredibly beneficial in my journey of building a media business. Any business, really. It suggests that if you give without expecting anything in return, people will feel compelled to reciprocat
Read the essay →Arvid Kahl 0:00 Welcome to The Bootstrapped Founder. Tony Dinh is a prolific indie hacker and I’m talking to him today. I’ve been following Tony’s journey building and designing products in public on Twitter for years now. And that’s what I wanted to talk to h
Read the essay →Attention! It feels like attention has become a currency of its own right in our digital economy. Where the eyeballs go, the wallets follow. Naturally, we all want a slice of that attention pie. We all want an audience, be it readers, follo
Read the essay →Arvid Kahl 0:00 Are you a bootstrapper who’s never considered raising investment money? Or maybe you’re a diehard VC funded growth hacker who can’t imagine running a business without that extra cash infusion? Well, either way, Jason Cohen’s journey from bootst
Read the essay →Entrepreneurship is not something we inherit or solely a matter of genetics. As a first-generation founder, I believe that it is profoundly influenced by the ideas and values we adopt. When we closely examine how entrepreneurs are raised an
Read the essay →Arvid Kahl 0:00Welcome to The Bootstrapped Founder. Today, I’m talking to Andrew McIntosh. He is a first generation entrepreneur. Andrew leads a community of people just like himself. And in fact, myself too. I’m also a first generation ent
Read the essay →I used to think that responding to customer service requests as soon as possible was an unequivocally good idea. After all, who doesn’t want to show their customers that they truly care about them? That they would drop everything to help so
Read the essay →Today, I’m talking to Moritz Dausinger, a serial indie hacker with several exits under his belt. Moritz most recently pivoted his software business Refiner after 18 months of trying to figure out a way forward. Well, now he’s found it. We w
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