Bootstrapped Stories

Kyle Rack (CEO and Co-founder of Proposify) decided to go from bootstrapping to fundraising to buy back the shares from investors.

How did they find their product-market fit? Why does Kyle think that the first employees might not be the ones who can grow the business in the long run? What’s his management framework, and how does he set up team OKRs?

Find out all his valuable tips in the episode.

$8M in ARR, no sales team, and 5 co-founders. That’s the story of Surfer. In today’s episode, I talk to Lucjan, Co-founder, and CEO, about how they started locally and expanded globally, with 60% of their customers based in the US.

The Bootstrapped Stories Podcast crossed 2,800 plays. 🔥

All episodes are also available on Youtube if you wanna watch them.

https://youtu.be/eo1D666S-ow

Chris is the co-founder of Snappa. They crossed $1M+ in ARR with a team of 7. In this episode, we talked about how he quit his job to launch the business, what strategies brought them 100K+ users, and more.

The Bootstrapped Stories Podcast crossed 3,300 plays. 🔥

All episodes are also available on Youtube if you wanna watch them.

https://youtu.be/eo1D666S-ow

Solo founder, Saravana Kuma brought Kovai.co to $10M in ARR in 10 years. In this episode, we talk about how blogging helped him get his first customers, how he builds strong company culture, and manages to run multi projects with totally different audiences.

The Bootstrapped Stories Podcast crossed 2,800 plays. 🔥

All episodes are also available on Youtube if you wanna watch them.

https://youtu.be/eo1D666S-ow

Maxwell is the founder of Megaphone Marketing and Silvi. In this episode, we talk about the strategies that got them to $20M in ARR, bootstrapped; how he succeeds in managing 2 businesses at the same time, and what’s his secret sauce for hiring top talents for his team.

The episode is also available on Youtube, if you wanna watch it.

https://youtu.be/eo1D666S-ow

Nathalie Lussier went from selling online courses to building a SaaS, AccessAlly. She and her team of 8 people crossed $1M in ARR. How do they succeed in a crowded market? What are their strategies to find the perfect customer and build the perfect product? Listen to the episode to see how you can get to $1M in ARR, applying Nathalie’s learnings 🚀

Seller.Tools is a team of 25 people and $2M in ARR. How creating a Facebook group and publishing on LinkedIn has helped them grow? Why do they offer features for free? Listen to the episode to find all answers.

Rob Walling has switched from being a bootstrapped SaaS founder to building the TinySeed, the first accelerator designed for SaaS bootstrappers founders. In this episode, we’ll talk about what it takes to build and sell 2 multi-million dollar businesses vs raising $40M.

The episode is also available on Youtube.

$30M in ARR, a team spread in 28 cities, and a strong audience worldwide. In this podcast, we talk about Nathan's successful keys in growing ConvertKit, his ups and downs as a solo founder, and get valuable insight into his learnings as a bootstrapped entrepreneur. 

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Vivek is the founder and CEO at Question Pro. They crossed $28M in ARR with a team of 200 people. A few years ago, the business was about to fail, and Vivek was forced to rethink the entire strategy of Question Pro. In this episode, we’re talking about what helped them grow and why he decided to sign a separation agreement with his co-founder back in the day.

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