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Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

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Re: Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

#11

Post by edw519 »

fleaflicker wrote: post #8
jsjenkins168 wrote: post #5

Congratulations. You're an inspiration to all of us. If you dont mind me asking, did you take on investment money or was the decision to sell solely yours?

Zero outside investment. Zero other employees (I've been doing this full-time for ~3.5 years). I hired an artist for the illustrations. And used a lot of open source projects.

Cool. Do you have a blog? Or perhaps you can share some bootstrapped, single founder stories. There just aren't enough of those here. I would find them especially enlightening.

Re: Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

#13

Post by electric »

fleaflicker wrote: post #8
jsjenkins168 wrote: post #5

Congratulations. You're an inspiration to all of us. If you dont mind me asking, did you take on investment money or was the decision to sell solely yours?

Zero outside investment. Zero other employees (I've been doing this full-time for ~3.5 years). I hired an artist for the illustrations. And used a lot of open source projects.

How did you finance yourself (since you did it FT for 3.5 y)

Re: Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

#15

Post by fleaflicker »

electric wrote: post #13
fleaflicker wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zero outside investment. Zero other employees (I've been doing this full-time for ~3.5 years). I hired an artist for the illustrations. And used a lot of open source projects.

How did you finance yourself (since you did it FT for 3.5 y)

Very low overhead. The largest investment by far was my time.

Re: Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

#16

Post by fleaflicker »

edw519 wrote: post #11
fleaflicker wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zero outside investment. Zero other employees (I've been doing this full-time for ~3.5 years). I hired an artist for the illustrations. And used a lot of open source projects.

Cool. Do you have a blog? Or perhaps you can share some bootstrapped, single founder stories. There just aren't enough of those here. I would find them especially enlightening.

No blog but if you have specific questions feel free to ask here or contact me.

http://www.fleaflicker.com/contact.do

Re: Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

#20

Post by edw519 »

fleaflicker wrote: post #16
edw519 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool. Do you have a blog? Or perhaps you can share some bootstrapped, single founder stories. There just aren't enough of those here. I would find them especially enlightening.

No blog but if you have specific questions feel free to ask here or contact me. http://www.fleaflicker.com/contact.do

Great, thanks. Hope you don't mind, but the questions are "gushing" out right now. Your story is very compelling to me (and probably quite a few others, too):

1. Did you have personal savings before you got started?

2. In that 3.5 years, how much time did you spend on other jobs? Employee or contractor?

3. Which month (of the 42) did you see your first revenue?

4. Did you do all of the hacking, hosting, and marketing? Which was most on the "critical path"?

5. When you encountered problems (of any type), where did you turn for help?

6. Did you ever get lonely? How did you manage that?

7. If you didn't get your exit, how long were you prepared to continue this?

8. How did you manage to find your exit?

I'll probably think of more. Thanks so much for joining us and sharing!

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