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Arvid Kahl 0:00 Welcome to The Bootstrapped Founder. Today, I’m excited to share my conversation with marketing expert, Corey Haines. We dive deep into some of the biggest challenges that indie hackers face when it comes to product marketin
Read the essay →Reading Time: < 1 minuteInstead of writing a lengthy article this week, I pointed my iPhone at my face, clipped on a wireless mic, put the puppy in the background of the shot, and hit record. I share my thoughts about forcing yourself to ta
Read the essay →Arvid Kahl Welcome to The Bootstrapped Founder. We’ve all heard of climbing the corporate ladder. But my guest today, Emmet Gibney, takes this concept to a whole new level. He shares his remarkable journey from customer support to the role
Read the essay →Recently, I had a great conversation with Kevin McArdle, an accomplished investor who essentially operates in the private equity space. He’s also the person who acquired my first successful SaaS business, FeedbackPanda. Right now, he’s buil
Read the essay →Arvid Kahl 0:00 Welcome to The Bootstrapped Founder. Today, I’m talking to Louis Pereira. He’s the maker behind the audio transcription product, Audio Pen, which recently became very successful after many not so great attempts at building o
Read the essay →Should you even write in a world dominated by generative AI? Isn’t your one brain competing with data centers that can do trillions of calculations per second where you can barely hold a single thought in your mind? Don’t all these massive
Read the essay →Ever wondered how to handle the competitive world of AI products and copycats while running a global business? Well, you’re in luck. This episode of The Bootstrapped Founder features a heart-to-heart with indie hacker and global entrepreneu
Read the essay →Online communities often remind me of villages, offering a sense of belonging, a place to grow roots, and a bustling exchange of ideas and services. I found my ‘village’ among sci-fi enthusiasts and software entrepreneurs online. And I do m
Read the essay →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
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