Indie Founder

Ana Bibikova was born in Russia but spent her teenage years in India where she started to explore her first entrepreneurial projects. After that, together with a couple of older partners, founded a marketing agency that become a profitable business. After that Ana moved back to Russia to start her most challenging business to date, she wanted to bring Asian food to Russia. After 3 years she finally succeeded but that end up affecting her mental health. Ana end up burning out and decided to leave the business and move to Cyprus.

About Ana

• Twitter
• Linkedin

About Wannabe Entrepreneur

• Community of Bootstrappers
• Twitter

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This is the last month of my unemployment money and from now on I am living entirely from my savings. I will also give you an update on my projects and speak about how it seems that my marketing strategy is paying off. In the end, I will share what I have learned in the past week about NFTs and what you have to do to gain access to the best deals!

I might also speak a little about Will Smith... XD

About this Episode

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• Buy me a coffee

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In 2016, Clo quit her job and built her freelancing career in a new field: UX Research! She will tell us about the process of learning something new and setting up her own company. Clo is also passionate about Digital Wellbeing is now also helping companies bridge the gap between tech & wellbeing.

About Clo

• Twitter
• Clo's Company

About Wannabe Entrepreneur

• Twitter
• Buy Me a Coffee
• Join the Community

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In today's episode, I will tell you what I have learned recently about NFTs and how they might be a good alternative to ads monetization. I will also give you an update on our ongoing WBE Lab (CollabClub) and what might become the biggest problem of running the WBE Space. As "tips and tricks" I will share with you what I have learned with Pieter Levels this past week on Twitter.

About the Episode

• Join the WBE Space
• Startup to Something Podcast
• DM me on Twitter
• Interview with Arvid (#164)
• Interview with Marc (#194)

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Jakob Greenfeld is a full-time bootstrapper that after finishing his PhD and working in academia for a couple of years decided to change things around in his career and learn how to be an entrepreneur. In our chat we speak about the problems of the academic world and how Jakob was able to use his academic mindset to learn how to build a profitable business.

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Being a solopreneur doesn't mean you are alone. There are people who learn from you, admire you, give you advice and follow your example.

In this special episode, Wolfy and Luise, two early members of the Wannabe Entrepreneur Space, give Tiago a break and share what they like about the community, how they leverage it for their own projects, and why they are true fans of the podcast.

Join the WBE Space: https://wannabe-entrepreneur.com/coworking

About Luise

• Luise's WBE member page: https://wannabe-entrepreneur.com/members/2022-01-30-luise/ 
• Luise's Podcast: https://anchor.fm/4-3-2-1podcast 

About Wolfy

• Wolfy's blog: https://gassler.dev  
• Wolfy's Podcast (DE): https://redcircle.com/shows/engineeringkiosk 

About Wannabe Entrepreneur

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wbepodcast 

Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/tiagorbf

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Is true passive income really achievable and what does it mean to build passive first? Those are the topics I will be speaking about in today's "tips and tricks" section at the end of the episode.

I am also building an accelerator for bootstrappers and I want to share some of the details with you.

And last but not least I will be speaking about the pros and cons of being a full-time bootstrapper vs doing it on the side of the main job.

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• Join our WBE Space
• Follow me on Twitter
• Gigantic Iphone Ted Talk
• Crying Statue Tweet

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Growing up, Tim was never a big fan of school and always felt a bit of social anxiety. Eventually, he ends up developing a problem with addiction but was able to overcome it after realizing the terrible negative effects it brought to his personal life. His recovery path leads him to bootstrap Sober Nation, a successful business that is helping thousands of people to beat addiction. A truly inspiring story!

About Tim Stoddart

• Twitter
• SoberNation
• Seth Godin - Purple Cow Book

About Wannabe Entrepreneur

My name is Tiago and I am the host of this podcast. I am a software developer turned bootstrapper and in the WBE podcast, I interview other entrepreneurs and narrate my own journey building my projects.

Do you want o support me?

• Join our Remote Co-Working Space
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I have been researching viral growth because I believe that it might be the key to faster initial growth for my business. I will share with you what I have learned so far. In this episode, I will also share the results of my A/B test that has been running for one week. In the end, will speak about a great tool that will help you with the copy for your landing pages and content creation.

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• Flip the bottle challenge ted talk

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Michelle Marcelline is one of the few entrepreneurs out there that is building a VC-founded company in public. Today she will tell the story of how she, together with 5 co-founders quit their jobs to take their company through the Y Combinator program. Michelle will also speak about what is Web3 and how they are using it in their startup.

About Michelle (aka @michwirantono)

Born and raised in Indonesia, Michelle moved to the USA to study where she met her 5 co-founders. After college, she got a great job but end up leaving it 3 months later to take her company through Y Combinator. Their first startup was a stock exchange platform for Indonesia, but they had to pivot due to regulatory constraints and end up building Cotter, a No-Code passwordless login, that was later on sold. At the moment Michelle and her co-founders are working on Typedream that allows Notion users to build websites.

About Wannabe Entrepreneur

My name is Tiago and I am the host of this podcast. I am a software developer turned bootstrapper and in the WBE podcast, I interview other entrepreneurs and narrate my own journey building my projects.

Do you want o support me?

• Join our Remote Co-Working Space
• Buy me a Coffee
• Follow me on Twitter

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