The Bootstrapped Founder
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42: The Power of Omission: Killing Features for Fun and Profit
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ The Power of Omission: Killing Features for Fun and ProfitThe podcast currently has no sponsors. If you would like to support me, please consider buying a copy of my book Zero to Sold.
41: Made to Stick: Shaping an Extensible Product
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ Made to Stick: Shaping an Extensible ProductThe podcast currently has no sponsors. If you would like to support me, please consider buying a copy of my book Zero to Sold.
40: Standard Operating Procedures: Managing Your Future Self
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ Standard Operating Procedures: Managing Your Future SelfThe podcast currently has no sponsors. If you would like to support me, please consider buying a copy of my book Zero to Sold.
39: Roadmaps and You: Building a Future Together
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ Roadmaps and You: Building a Future TogetherThe podcast currently has no sponsors. If you would like to support me, please consider buying a copy of my book Zero to Sold.
38: Customer Retention: How to Keep Them Around / The Zero to Sold Launch
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ Customer Retention: How to Keep Them AroundAs mentioned in the episode, feel free to check out my book Zero to Sold. Here's the launch tweet.Undock sponsors this episode of the Bootstrapped Founder Podcast. Balsamiq provides this sponsored airtime. Please check out both — they're awesome.
37: Customer Exploration: Seeing Through Your Customer’s Eyes
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ Customer Exploration: Seeing Through Your Customer’s EyesHipSpec sponsors this episode of the Bootstrapped Founder Podcast. Balsamiq provides this sponsored airtime. Please check out both — they're awesome.
36: Being Small Is a Benefit: How to Leverage Being a Bootstrapper
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ Being Small Is a Benefit: How to Leverage Being a BootstrapperOutseta sponsors this episode of the Bootstrapped Founder Podcast. Balsamiq provides this sponsored airtime. Please check out both — they're awesome.
35: Spreading the Word: How to Do Marketing on a Shoestring Budget
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ Spreading the Word: How to Do Marketing on a Shoestring BudgetFeature Upvote sponsors this episode of the Bootstrapped Founder Podcast. Balsamiq provides this sponsored airtime. Please check out both — they're awesome.
34: Seller Beware: Pricing Models That Can Break Your Business
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ Seller Beware: Pricing Models That Can Break Your BusinessLinks mentioned in part two:https://untools.co/https://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/the-cognitive-bias-codex-a-visual-of-180-cognitive-biases/If you want to be inspired by Seth Godin, please read https://seths.blog/2020/05/dancing-with-tech/Libpixel sponsors this episode of the Bootstrapped Founder Podcast. Balsamiq provides this sponsored airtime. Please check out both — they're awesome.
33: Offer Yearly Plans from the Start
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ Not All Subscriptions Are Equal: Offer Yearly Plans from the StartThis episode of the Bootstrapped Founder Podcast is sponsored by Treendly. This sponsored airtime is provided by Balsamiq. Please check out both — they're awesome.
32. How to Deal with Plans That No Longer Work / Profit Sharing
You can find articles on the topics discussed in the episode here:- ✍️ Not All Subscribers Are Equal: How to Deal with Plans That No Longer Work- ✍️ Profit-Sharing as Employee Compensation for BootstrappersThis episode of the Bootstrapp ed Founder Podcast is sponsored by DrawSQL. This sponsored airtime is provided by Balsamiq. Please check out both — they're awesome.
31. Price Is Not Set In Stone: Strategies For Increasing Your Revenue
You can find the promo code provided the sponsor of this show, Balsamiq, right here.
30. You May Be Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Re-Evaluating Your Audience
Arvid talks about the kinds of misalignments that can trouble your business.
29. Build for Value, Not for Applause: Product Management Under Heavy Constraints
Arvid explains how to make your service noticeably better for the majority of your users without making the product harder to use.
28. First Things First: Feature Prioritization Frameworks
Arvid talks feature prioritization: Scoring, the Kano Model, and Story Mapping — how and why they work.
27. Forget Goals, Create Systems: Foundations of a Sustainable Bootstrapped Business
Arvid talks about how to create repeatable, reliable, and resilient processes and systems for your business.
26. The Boring Truth of Successful Products That Survive
Arvid explains the core attributes that make products stick around: focus, simplicity, and extensibility.
25. Making Tech Choices: Don’t Add Risk to an Already Risky Business
You can find the full article at Making Tech Choices: Don’t Add Risk to an Already Risky Business.
24. Not in House: On Reinventing the Wheel
Arvid shares an actionable framework for deciding if you should build or buy (and the mistakes he made in the past).
23. Surviving a Recession as a Bootstrapped Business
The article for this episode can be found on The Bootstrapped Founder blog.
22. How to Release as a Bootstrapper: Often, Early, and Safely
Arvid explains how to release software effectively and safely.
21. Scaling Your SaaS Without Scaling Your Anxiety
Arvid talks about how he dealt with anxiety when running FeedbackPanda.
20. Too Many Eyes: Why Bootstrapped Companies Stop Being Transparent (Eventually)
Arvid talks about transparency, open data, and why bootstrappers usually stop sharing information about their businesses.
19. Continuous Validation: Staying in Touch with Your Market
Arvid talks about how you can make sure you're still solving the right problem for the right people and if you still enjoy it.
18. The Do's and Don'ts of the Minimum Viable Product
Arvid explains what an MVP is, how to scope and time it, and what should go into a successful product.
17. So You Got an Offer: How to Do Due Diligence on Your Potential Acquirer
Arvid talks about how you can find out if your potential acquirer is a good candidate, and what the red flags are.
16. Churn, Retention, and Revenue: What Makes Customers Stick Around and Why That's Important
Arvid talks about the kinds of churn founders will encounter, and which ones are actually welcome.
15. How to Do Maximum Customer Support with Minimum Effort
Arvid talks about the FeedbackPanda customer service system allowed them to run the business with 0 employees.
14. The Bootstrapper’s Plight: The Social Headaches of Building a Business
Arvid talks about the weird conversations you will have as a founder, and how to deal with them.
13. The Myth of The Finished Product
Arvid talks about why software products are never finished, and which kinds of changes you can expect to make.
12. Real and Imaginary Responsibilities of a Bootstrapped Founder
Arvid explains the kinds of imaginary responsibilities he encountered in his business and how to deal with them.
11. Your Initial Pricing Will Never Be Right, But Try Anyway
Arvid talks about how to price aspirationally, underpricing, overpricing, and how much initial prices really matter.
10. Do You Need a Co-Founder?
Arvid talks about what to look out for when choosing a co-founder and his experience with his co-founders, good and bad.
9. Finding the Most Painful Problem in a Market
Arvid talks about what makes a problem painful, what kinds of pains there are, and what questions you should be asking your prospective customers to find them.
8. Solution Validation Doesn’t Happen In a Vacuum: How to Talk To Your Future Customers
Arvid shows how you can discover the risks your solution poses to the workflow of your prospective customers.
7. Determining the Size of a Market
Arvid talks about how you can find meaningful numbers to help you pick the right market for your bootstrapped SaaS. For B2B, B2BC, and B2C markets, he shows you how you can get the most accurate figures.
6. Finding a Market to Build a SaaS
Arvid talks about the right kinds of markets for bootstrapped businesses, what qualities they should have and how markets can change for better or worse.
5. The Power of the Niche
You can find the article for this episode here.
4. Finding the Critical Problem: How to Work on The Right Things
You can find the article for this episode here.
3. Make It Sell Itself: On Referral Systems
You can find the article for this episode here.
2. Problem Validation: Making Sure You’re Talking To The Right People
You can find this article on The Bootstrapped Founder blog under the name Problem Validation: Making Sure You’re Talking To The Right People.
1. The FeedbackPanda Story
In the first episode of The Bootstrapped Founder podcast, Arvid talks about starting, running, and selling FeedbackPanda, his crooked career path, and what listeners can expect from future episodes of the podcast.