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Ever found yourself stepping into a role that you never expected you’d be in? That’s what my guest, Brian Sierakowski, did when he took over as CEO of Bearmetrics, a company that he had not founded, but was handed over to him after an acqui
Read the essay →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 →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 →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 →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
Read the essay →Kevin McArdle bought my SaaS. For millions. And now, I get to talk to him about all things acquisition. In our chat, we discuss the importance of annual exit planning for startup founders, we explore the mindset and framework necessary for
Read the essay →Are you feeling burnt out or overwhelmed by societal expectations? Today, I’m talking to Paul Millerd, author of “The Pathless Path.” We talk about hustle traps, the stories we tell ourselves about success, and our obsession with productivi
Read the essay →Arvid Kahl 0:00Hello everyone and welcome to The Bootstrapped Founder. Today, I’m talking to Joe Masilotti, the founder of RailsDevs, a reverse job platform for Ruby on Rails developers. We talk about monetizing an open source project, buil
Read the essay →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
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