"In the last 3 years, a lot has happened...We went from 0 to $4,000,000 ARR with lemlist...Sold lempod, our side project, after 18 months of hypergrowth....And scale our team to 23 amazing people...In this article, I wanted to share with you 7 key learnings about how we managed to scale that fast with $0 in fundings (fully bootstrapped) 🚀"
"Start out small. I dedicated a few hours to this app in the beginning, until I was ready to take it one step further and devote 10 hours every week to this project. If you work full time and put in an additional 20 hours weekly into your side project, you will burn out within a month. Take it one step at a time."
"Maxime Berthelot started off by saying he would be talking about how he started PixelMe as a side product and went from 0 to 10K MRR in a year without leaving his day job at Buffer. He co-founded the project with two friends Jeremy (working on Engineering) and Tom (working on Growth)."
"In this article, I will detail exactly what are the things we implemented in order to keep an exponential growth and go from $1m to $2m ARR in 5 months in a time of global crisis and without spending any money on paid channels."
Since a lot of people asked me how it was possible to manage 3 SaaS projects with such a small team (at the beginning it was just François, Vianney and me — we’re now 8 in the team), I decided to share some insights in this article.
"After hearing about Janel’s success with Newsletter OS from Courtland Allen, I was very interested in doing a deep dive of the exact timeline of how Janel did this. This is the story of how Janel built in public and launched her product. If you’ll like to read about the timeline of Newsletter OS’ sales, please read this instead."
Guy Raz is a journalist, correspondent and radio host, currently working at National Public Radio. And he interviews start-up and company founders about their life and their story. The atmosphere is amazing and you feel like you're in the same room with top entrepreneurs and they tell their stories with a cup of tea. We personally love the story of creating "Khan Academy" with Sal Khan.
"No this isn't clickbait.But at the same time achieving this goal was never simple, easy or something that happened overnight.It took months of preparation creating a product from a process we use internally at @VerifyBee to solve our critical SEO dilemmas.The journey that we took to solve these problems and bring about our elegant solution to the world is what brought to life @BacklinkSEO."
"This the story on how we (the PixelMe team) launched a side project marketing during summer 19’ and why we decided to build a Saas product out of it 🙂 You might want to take a ☕️and some 🍿it’s going to be a bit long!"
Andrew Warner interviews start-up founders about their road. One of the best podcasts we've been listening to is the talk with Francois Arbour is the founder of PremiumBeat, a curated library of royalty-free music for creative professionals. He sold that company to Shutterstock and has gone on to do many other things. Andrew wanted to know how a guy who started out in the basement became somebody so freaking good at building companies that he’s helping others do it too. Really inspiring story 🔥
If you're in start-up world and don't know Nathan Latka - you need to change it today. Nathan is guy who is doing everything: he created companies, invested money, wrote books, took interviews and made Youtube shows. We love listening Nathan's podcast especially because he dives deeper and always asks uncomfortable questions about numbers (real numbers!). Guillaume the CEO of lemlist was also a guest here.
NextView venture didn't upload new episodes for 4 years. And you may think "Ahh, it means that last episodes are outdated". And in most cases we'd say "yes, the world is changing a lot". But when it comes to this podcast it's too far from calling it "outdated". For example, there is a cool episode with Fareed who was a part of a Growth team at Slack and the things that he was sharing 4 years ago are extremely relevant these days.
One of the most practical podcasts. Why because Intercom team is sharing their thoughts with public. After listening to a dozen of episodes you could feel that you're a part of a team and already know the team. Really good talks, especially one of the last episodes of "Intercom on Product" with Des, Co-founder of Intercom