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- MicroConf US ’23 Recap or What Happens When 250 SaaS Founders Meet — The Bootstrapped Founder
- ChatGPT: Goldmine or Minefield for Indie Hackers?— The Bootstrapped Founder
- Artificial Scarcity Damages the Creator Economy — The Bootstrapped Founder
- The Art of Naming Your Business — The Bootstrapped Founder
- How I Stay Consistent — The Bootstrapped Founder
- The SaaS Solution-Workflow Fit — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Securing your SaaS — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Don’t Fall for the Follower Count Trap — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Stair-Stepping with Plugins: Platforms to Build On — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Writing for Founders — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Be The Kindest Person in the Room — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Negative Reviews are Good for You — The Bootstrapped Founder
- The Monkey and the Pedestal — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Expanding Your Opportunity Surface — The Bootstrapped Founder
- The Role of Trust in Remote Work — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Founder Mental Health Pitfalls — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Diversify Your Creator Portfolio — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Realistic Building in Public for Introverted Founders — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Build a Defensible Indie Business — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Avoid Vanity Metrics — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Paying the Bills While Building Your First Indie Business — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Find Business Ideas on Social Media — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Why You Shouldn’t Sell Your Business — The Bootstrapped Founder
- When Should You Go from Side-Project to Full-Time? — The Bootstrapped Founder
- Calm Business Misconceptions — TBF #161
- Operating a Calm SaaS Business — TBF #160
- Pricing for Calm SaaS Businesses — TBF #159
- Product Development for Calm SaaS Businesses — TBF #158
- Solution Exploration for Calm SaaS Businesses — TBF #157
- The Toxicity of Growth Hacks — TBF #156
- Problem Discovery for Calm SaaS Businesses — TBF #155
- Market Analysis for Calm SaaS Businesses — TBF #154
- When AI creates masterpieces we can’t ignore — TBF #153
- Infrastructure of a Calm SaaS Business — TBF #152
- Entrepreneurial Strategies & Anti-Patterns for a Calm SaaS Business — TBF #151
- Business Models for a Calm SaaS Business — TBF #150
- Fundamentals of a Calm SaaS Business — TBF #149
- Build a Calm Business — TBF #148
- How NOT to Use Twitter DMs — TBF #147
- Bootstrapped Founder #146: Don’t blame the market; blame your marketing
- Bootstrapped Founder #145: On Saying “No”
- Bootstrapped Founder #144: The Risks and Illusions of the “Post-Exit Retirement”
- Bootstrapped Founder #143: Permission to Follow Up
- Bootstrapped Founder #142: Consulting in Public
- Bootstrapped Founder #141: Founder Stories are Powerful Assets
- Bootstrapped Founder #140: The Forever Transaction
- Bootstrapped Founder #139: Building in Public and Legacy
- Bootstrapped Founder #138: Parasocial Relationships: Imaginary Friends of the Social Network Age
- Bootstrapped Founder #137: Should Freelancers Offer Free Trials?
- Bootstrapped Founder #136: Choose Your Own Adventure: Creator, Curator, Commentator, or Connector
- Bootstrapped Founder #135: Scalable Customer Service for Bootstrappers
- Bootstrapped Founder #134: Managing Expectations: Making Good (on) Promises.
- Bootstrapped Founder #133: You Don’t Need to be an Extrovert to Build in Public — an Introvert’s Perspective
- Bootstrapped Founder #132: Why Founders End Up Unemployable
- Bootstrapped Founder #131: Seven Kinds of Entrepreneurial Debt
- Bootstrapped Founder #129: What Founders Can Learn from Professional WoW Gamers
- Bootstrapped Founder #128: How I Find Twitter Content Ideas
- Bootstrapped Founder #127: How I (Fortunately) Failed to Launch an NFT Collection
- Bootstrapped Founder #126: The SaaS Market Maturity Paradox
- Bootstrapped Founder #125: The Power of the Narrative when Building in Public
- Bootstrapped Founder #124: Building in Public and Negativity
- Bootstrapped Founder #123: Purchasing Power Parity Pricing
- Bootstrapped Founder #122: Being Imperfect in Public
- Bootstrapped Founder #121: The Performative Nature of Building in Public: A View From the Inside
- Bootstrapped Founder #120: Fear-Setting
- Bootstrapped Founder #119: The Power of Repetition
- Bootstrapped Founder #118: Building in Public: Maintaining a Positive Self-Image
- Bootstrapped Founder #117: What Founders Can Learn From Web3 Community-Building (And What They Can’t)
- Bootstrapped Founder #116: Twitter: The Gathering. How and Where to Find the Right Followers
- Bootstrapped Founder #115: Make it Easy to Cancel
- Bootstrapped Founder #114: Building in Public: How to Build a Minipoly
- Bootstrapped Founder #113: Building in Public: How Radical Transparency Hurts Founders
- Bootstrapped Founder #112: Building in Public: Oversharing
- Bootstrapped Founder #111: Passive Income and Entrepreneurship
- Bootstrapped Founder #110: Building in Public: What to Share at Which Stage of Your Journey
- Bootstrapped Founder #109: Building in Public: Taking Breaks
- Bootstrapped Founder #108: Building in Public: Balancing Building and Sharing
- Bootstrapped Founder #107: Too Little, Too Much: Advice and How to Take It
- Bootstrapped Founder #106: Burnout
- Bootstrapped Founder #105: What Founders Can Learn From the Facebook Outage
- Bootstrapped Founder #104: Copycats and Endurance
- Bootstrapped Founder #103: Audience-building is not Community-Building
- Bootstrapped Founder #102: Pivoting in Public: Risks and Opportunities
- Bootstrapped Founder #101: Why Reading Fiction Is Important for Entrepreneurs
- Bootstrapped Founder #100 🥳: Consistency, Accountability, and Perseverance
- Bootstrapped Founder #99: Of Tangibility and Lawnmowers
- Bootstrapped Founder #98: The Creeping Nature of Stress for a SaaS Founder
- Bootstrapped Founder #97: Why Competition is Good For Business
- Bootstrapped Founder #96: Hyrum’s Law
- Bootstrapped Founder #95: What Watching Gamers Fail for Days Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship
- Bootstrapped Founder #94: How to Kill Your Business
- Bootstrapped Founder #93: Conversations are at the Core of Engagement
- Bootstrapped Founder #92: The Myth of the Immediate Payoff
- Bootstrapped Founder #91: Say Thank You
- Bootstrapped Founder #90: Competition Isn’t Always a Business
- Bootstrapped Founder #89: Selfish vs. Selfless: Self-Promotion in Communities
- Bootstrapped Founder #88: Properties of an Interesting Problem
- Bootstrapped Founder #87: The Line Between Stealing and Being Inspired
- Bootstrapped Founder #86: Audience-Building and Relatable Content
- Bootstrapped Founder #85: Platform Risk and the Three Kinds of Audiences
- Bootstrapped Founder #84: Impostor Syndrome and Building Capital
- Bootstrapped Founder #83: Entrepreneurship, Job Security, and Wealth Creation
- Bootstrapped Founder #82: Accountability Systems for Founders
- Bootstrapped Founder #81: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Navigating Bootstrapping Advice
- Bootstrapped Founder #80: SaaS, Self-Talk, and Many Small Bets
- Bootstrapped Founder #79: Audience Graduation
- [here, I brought the newsletter numbering in line with the podcast episode numbers]
- Bootstrapped Founder #72: Lifetime Deals and SaaS Businesses
- Bootstrapped Founder #71: The Goals of Audience-Building
- Bootstrapped Founder #70: The Shape of a Problem in the Wild
- Bootstrapped Founder #70: On Re-Using Content
- Bootstrapped Founder #69: Audience Discovery: The Importance of Budget
- Bootstrapped Founder #68: What founders can learn from Twitch streamers about building in public
- Bootstrapped Founder #67: Fear of Disappointing Your Customers
- Bootstrapped Founder #66: When Your Business Gets Cloned
- Bootstrapped Founder #65: I Had to Pivot this Week
- Bootstrapped Founder #64: The Grief and Loss of Selling a Business
- Bootstrapped Founder #63: The Two Goals of Audience-Building
- Bootstrapped Founder #62: How I Use Twitter
- Bootstrapped Founder #61: On Offering Public APIs for Your SaaS
- Bootstrapped Founder #60: Motivation Will Eventually Go Away: Build Accountability Systems Instead
- Bootstrapped Founder #59: Audience-Building through Podcasting
- Bootstrapped Founder #58: Avoiding the Validation Trap
- Bootstrapped Founder #57: Open-Source and Bootstrapping
- Bootstrapped Founder #56: Tech Stacks and Indie Hacking
- Bootstrapped Founder #55: Rewards and Perils of Being Your Own Customer
- Bootstrapped Founder #54: When Privacy and Customer Value Clash
- Bootstrapped Founder #53: How I Approach Pricing for a Brand New SaaS
- Bootstrapped Founder #52: Sunk Cost Fallacy Engineering
- Bootstrapped Founder #51: Customer Lock-In and “Insurance Features”
- Bootstrapped Founder #50: Limiting Beliefs
- Bootstrapped Founder #49: Analysis Paralysis
- Bootstrapped Founder #48: “Audience-First” Is Not Just “Building an Audience”
- Bootstrapped Founder #47: The Problem With Audience-First
- Bootstrapped Founder #46: Priming Your Business for Due Diligence
- Bootstrapped Founder #45: Preparing for the Sale From Day One
- Bootstrapped Founder #44: At a Crossroads — The Different Kinds of Exits
- Bootstrapped Founder #43: A Unified Voice: Staying Consistent When You Grow
- Bootstrapped Founder #42: How I Self-Published Zero to Sold, a Bestselling Book on Bootstrapping
- Bootstrapped Founder #41: Positioning Is Where It’s At
- Bootstrapped Founder #40: You Want a Tribe
- Bootstrapped Founder #39: Growing a Company Beyond the Founder(s)
- Bootstrapped Founder #38: Killing Features for Fun and Profit
- Bootstrapped Founder #37: Make It Stick
- Bootstrapped Founder #36: A Sellable Business Has SOPs
- Bootstrapped Founder #35: Roadmaps
- Bootstrapped Founder #34: Customer Retention (also, I Launched a Book)
- Bootstrapped Founder #33: Seeing Through Your Customer’s Eyes
- Bootstrapped Founder #32: Being Small Is a Benefit / How to Leverage Being a Bootstrapper
- Bootstrapped Founder #31: How to Do Marketing on a Shoestring Budget
- Bootstrapped Founder #30: Pricing Models That Can Break Your Business
- Bootstrapped Founder #29: Offer Yearly Plans from the Start
- Bootstrapped Founder #28: Profit Sharing, & Upgrading vs. Grandfathering
- Bootstrapped Founder #27: Price Is Not Set In Stone: Strategies For Increasing Your Revenue
- Bootstrapped Founder #26: You May Be Barking Up the Wrong Tree
- Bootstrapped Founder #25: Build for Value, Not for Applause
- Bootstrapped Founder #24: Prioritize THIS!
- Bootstrapped Founder #23: Forget Goals, Create Systems
- Bootstrapped Founder #22: The Why and How of Products that Survive
- Bootstrapped Founder #21: Making Tech Choices (And How I Horribly Failed at That)
- Bootstrapped Founder #20: How Not to Re-Invent the Wheel
- Bootstrapped Founder #19: Surviving a Recession as a Bootstrapped Business
- Bootstrapped Founder #18: Opportunities and Risks of Tectonic Shifts
- Bootstrapped Founder #17: Most MVPs Are Too Bloated. Here’s the Cure.
- Bootstrapped Founder #16: Why I Sold FeedbackPanda Even Though I Didn’t Have To
- Bootstrapped Founder #15: Two Biases and One Exit
- Bootstrapped Founder #14: Weaponizing Your Word-Of-Mouth Marketing
- Bootstrapped Founder #13: Problem Validation and Why Developers Building for Other Developers Is Risky
- Bootstrapped Founder #12: Zero to Sold, Finding Painful Problems, and How to Show Gratitude
- Bootstrapped Founder #11: The Power of the Niche & How to Find Underserved Markets
- Bootstrapped Founder #10: Do You Need a Co-Founder? (and the Tale of the “Deli Hustler”)
- Bootstrapped Founder #09 – January 10th 2020
- Bootstrapped Founder #08 – January 3rd 2020
- Bootstrapped Founder #07 – December 27th 2019
- Bootstrapped Founder #06 – December 20th 2019
- Bootstrapped Founder #05 – December 13th 2019
- Bootstrapped Founder #04 – December 6th 2019
- Bootstrapped Founder #03 – November 29th 2019
- Bootstrapped Founder #02 – November 22nd 2019
- Bootstrapped Founder #01 – November 15th 2019