The Bootstrapped Founder
Arvid Kahl
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41: Made to Stick: Shaping an Extensible Product
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40: Standard Operating Procedures: Managing Your Future Self
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39: Roadmaps and You: Building a Future Together
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38: Customer Retention: How to Keep Them Around / The Zero to Sold Launch
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37: Customer Exploration: Seeing Through Your Customer’s Eyes
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36: Being Small Is a Benefit: How to Leverage Being a Bootstrapper
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35: Spreading the Word: How to Do Marketing on a Shoestring Budget
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34: Seller Beware: Pricing Models That Can Break Your Business
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33: Offer Yearly Plans from the Start
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32. How to Deal with Plans That No Longer Work / Profit Sharing
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31. Price Is Not Set In Stone: Strategies For Increasing Your Revenue
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30. You May Be Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Re-Evaluating Your Audience
Arvid talks about the kinds of misalignments that can trouble your business.
29. Build for Value, Not for Applause: Product Management Under Heavy Constraints
Arvid explains how to make your service noticeably better for the majority of your users without making the product harder to use.
28. First Things First: Feature Prioritization Frameworks
Arvid talks feature prioritization: Scoring, the Kano Model, and Story Mapping — how and why they work.
27. Forget Goals, Create Systems: Foundations of a Sustainable Bootstrapped Business
Arvid talks about how to create repeatable, reliable, and resilient processes and systems for your business.
26. The Boring Truth of Successful Products That Survive
Arvid explains the core attributes that make products stick around: focus, simplicity, and extensibility.
25. Making Tech Choices: Don’t Add Risk to an Already Risky Business
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24. Not in House: On Reinventing the Wheel
Arvid shares an actionable framework for deciding if you should build or buy (and the mistakes he made in the past).
23. Surviving a Recession as a Bootstrapped Business
The article for this episode can be found on The Bootstrapped Founder blog.
22. How to Release as a Bootstrapper: Often, Early, and Safely
Arvid explains how to release software effectively and safely.
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