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We're a Batch 1 company and I can attest to the quality of the program. The cash is nice, but the real value is in the community and extensive mentorship network! Stoked to see Tin…

Great points here. It's very tricky to get accurate information from potential customers. The fact that there is demand for what you want to build is a necessary, but not sufficien…

Ouch. That's not at all what I'm trying to do. I have no shortage of passion, but passion alone does not make a viable business. My hope is that my post will help others think abou…

Thank you! It happens to the best of us, I haven't been super consistent with writing regularly. Trying to change that!

Thank you!

That's awesome!

You're welcome! There are some alternative funding sources for bootstrappers that could be interesting for you: - TinySeed ( https://tinyseed.com/ ) - Earnest Capital ( https://ear…

Thank you! I also added a redirect from the previous URL.

Thanks! Glad you are finding it helpful!

Totally! To clarify, by the "drop the ball" do you mean knowing when to call it quits if something is not working out? I recently wrote about my experience with that: https://www.d…

Every company has a "first customer"

That's correct, I was referring to feature-richness.

Author here. Slack is undoubtedly sticky, although I challenge the assumption that all integrations need to be replicated in a niche play. Those who did adopt Level were willing to…

Thanks so much

Thanks so much!

Bravo Rob & Einar. So many founders are consuming their nights and weekends trying to get their side business off the ground with enough traction to be able to leave their day out.…

As the seller, I paid a fee to FE International (my broker). Similar to having a realtor help sell your house, it was absolutely worth it. FEI compile a prospectus, distributed it …

We had several hour-long screensharing sessions where I walked the buyers through the codebase and talked through the data model, architecture, etc.

I think the most important thing is to know your target market, how to reach them, and to be talking to them about how best to solve their problems.

The bottom line for me was time and focus. If I had more hours in the day, I would have kept Codetree and grown it. My other business Drip was experiencing crazy growth and Codetre…

Good question! I felt really good about the prospect of selling to Kareem and the partners after our initial conversation. It seemed like a really good fit. Probably the point of h…