17. So You Got an Offer: How to Do Due Diligence on Your Potential Acquirer
Arvid talks about how you can find out if your potential acquirer is a good candidate, and what the red flags are.
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The Bootstrapped Founder
Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public.
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16. Churn, Retention, and Revenue: What Makes Customers Stick Around and Why That's Important
Arvid talks about the kinds of churn founders will encounter, and which ones are actually welcome.
15. How to Do Maximum Customer Support with Minimum Effort
Arvid talks about the FeedbackPanda customer service system allowed them to run the business with 0 employees.
14. The Bootstrapper’s Plight: The Social Headaches of Building a Business
Arvid talks about the weird conversations you will have as a founder, and how to deal with them.
13. The Myth of The Finished Product
Arvid talks about why software products are never finished, and which kinds of changes you can expect to make.
12. Real and Imaginary Responsibilities of a Bootstrapped Founder
Arvid explains the kinds of imaginary responsibilities he encountered in his business and how to deal with them.
11. Your Initial Pricing Will Never Be Right, But Try Anyway
Arvid talks about how to price aspirationally, underpricing, overpricing, and how much initial prices really matter.
10. Do You Need a Co-Founder?
Arvid talks about what to look out for when choosing a co-founder and his experience with his co-founders, good and bad.
9. Finding the Most Painful Problem in a Market
Arvid talks about what makes a problem painful, what kinds of pains there are, and what questions you should be asking your prospective customers to find them.
8. Solution Validation Doesn’t Happen In a Vacuum: How to Talk To Your Future Customers
Arvid shows how you can discover the risks your solution poses to the workflow of your prospective customers.
7. Determining the Size of a Market
Arvid talks about how you can find meaningful numbers to help you pick the right market for your bootstrapped SaaS. For B2B, B2BC, and B2C markets, he shows you how you can get the most accurate figures.
6. Finding a Market to Build a SaaS
Arvid talks about the right kinds of markets for bootstrapped businesses, what qualities they should have and how markets can change for better or worse.
5. The Power of the Niche
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4. Finding the Critical Problem: How to Work on The Right Things
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3. Make It Sell Itself: On Referral Systems
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2. Problem Validation: Making Sure You’re Talking To The Right People
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1. The FeedbackPanda Story
In the first episode of The Bootstrapped Founder podcast, Arvid talks about starting, running, and selling FeedbackPanda, his crooked career path, and what listeners can expect from future episodes of the podcast.