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Bidsketch | https://bidsketch.com | Portland, OR | REMOTE Bidsketch is a profitable bootstrapped SaaS (subscription web app) that customers use to create client proposals. I launch…

It's still early but haven't had any issues so far.

Totally agree with Alex. This is something that I (and most other SaaS owners I know) look at regularly. And it's not always easy.

Glad you liked it! You're right; I could've used a lot of these strategies when I was hiring inside of a big co.

Not a prob! :) These were single people with a limited budget. I do have a Bidsketch customer that almost falls into this category (and I helped find a dev), but I didn't include h…

You know, after I helped them out with picking a developer, they didn't ask for help once development started. I offered to help but they either didn't run into problems or didn't …

I'm a big fan of outsourcing development as that was the route I chose to launch my product ( http://www.bidsketch.com ) in a much shorter time than it took when I was doing everyt…

Love that talk, thanks. I do have some ideas for tests I want to run in the future when I get back into optimization mode.

I tested increasing prices without touching anything else and it resulted in significant revenue increase but I hit a local maximum as the segmenting was off and value communicatio…

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I had more people signing up for the higher tier plans when I a/b tested the plan names. Don't remember what the numbers were exactly but it was interesting to see behavior change …

I grandfathered existing customers in so they still have their existing plans.

Should be good now, thanks!

Sorry, just restarted the service. Thanks! I need to add monitoring to that service since it's now past the experiment stage (was being tested against a video at one time).

Author here. Thanks for mentioning that; I've gone ahead and added a link.

Ryan: I'd love to hear specifics about the problems you're encountering with being remote at this size? I have a remote team and we're growing but I would like to stay that way for…

Like anything else, the more you do it the easier it gets. I have two part time developers working for me (one from Nepal and the other from Ukraine. They're both great. Much bette…

I've tried both ways and saw an immediate increase in paid conversions when asking for cc info upfront (8x increase). I've talked to several founders that have tried both ways and …

I did not let my employer know. I understand that sometimes there can be risks from a legal perspective but given the context I felt the risk was extremely low. Plus, it was none o…

I built my startup while working full time at a corporate job. After a year and a half I quit because I was able to grow it to the point of where it was able to pay living expenses…