Today, I am talking to Andrew Gazdecki, a pillar of the founder community and himself founder of the acquisition platform formerly known as MicroAcquire — but we’ll learn more about that on the show. Besides organizing millions of dollars worth of acquisitions every month, Andrew is a true teacher. His content on building software businesses is spectacularly useful. And fortunately, he will share a lot of it with us today. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:54 Founder and personality 00:04:19 MicroAcqu...
Dec 14, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast We've been taught to believe that creators are only truly successful when they reach the top echelon of their platform, with millions of followers and likes. But this is a false notion that doesn't accurately reflect what success looks like for creators — or what “success” is about in the first place. The truth is that success for creators comes in many different forms, and it usually doesn’t depend on reaching the top of the platform. There are many creators who have found success by building a...
Dec 09, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast I am talking to Rosie Sherry, proprietor of Rosieland and community empowerment expert. She runs her own communities, monetizing a few of them, and has been managing the IndieHackers community in the past. Rosie is an expert all things community and education. And that's precisely what we'll talk about today. This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . Here's the blog post for this episode . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Dec 07, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast There is a huge difference between building a product, a business, and a company. It's a progression from one to the other, usually involving making significant changes in your life. Requirements change, and so does our lifestyle to make our dreams possible. Ideally, we have a master plan on how to get there. But in reality, we have to pay bills, take care of our family, and deal with the often unexpected hardships of life. And while everyone's situation is unique, many entrepreneurs have found ...
Dec 02, 2022•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, I am talking to Jakob Greenfeld. I’ve been reading Jakobs blog posts for years now, and they’re as spicy as they’re thoughtful. There’s not a single post on there that feels unfinished. That’s quite impressive. Well, I think we’ll figure out why that is during our conversation. We’ll also chat about how to unlock critical thinking by writing and what it means to give yourself permission to do things your way. Here’s Jakob Greenfeld. This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . Here's the b...
Nov 30, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In my conversation with Daniel Vassallo this week , I learned that Daniel uses social media —Twitter in particular— to find inspiration for his own work as a teacher and content creator. Intentionally doomscrolling Twitter to come up with writing prompts and business ideas? Why not! If we consider this a strategic effort, not just wasting our time on social media, let's develop a few frameworks that lead to more tangible results. Today, I want to talk about finding ideas, problems, and points of...
Nov 25, 2022•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, I am talking to Daniel Vassallo, writer, founder, and person with very strong opinions. He is building a portfolio of small bets in public, on Twitter. I will talk to him about the importance of making money in diversified ways, how to structure your life around being a founder, and how to figure out which business ideas might actually work. Here is Daniel Vassallo. What is the lifetime value of a subscription business? 1:12 Different kinds of software fit different pricing models. 5:04 W...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast I was talking to Damon Chen, who built Testimonial.to to $400.000 in ARR this week, and at one point, he mentioned that he isn’t looking into selling his business just yet. Maybe even never. That got me thinking. While we all want to build sellable businesses, is there such a thing as selling too early? How can we determine when that phase ends and when it’s time to get acquired? Should we even do that, ever? Let’s look into why we might want to hold on to our business even when acquirers come k...
Nov 18, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, I am talking to Damon Chen, the founder behind Testimonial.to, a social proof tool that has recently reached $400.000 in annual recurring revenue. Now that’s extremely impressive, particularly considering that Damon got it there all by himself. So, let’s just ask him how this family man accomplished such growth while living in one of the most expensive places you could build a business in. Here’s Damon Chen. LonelyDev is a community that I built to solve my own problem. 1:01 Lonely Dev tu...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Earlier this week, I talked to Michele Hansen of Geocodio on The Bootstrapped Founder Podcast. Michele co-founded the business with her husband and ran it as a side project for several years. Now, that's a long time to wait before you commit full-time to a project. We also learned during our conversation that there are many ways of determining when the right time is to make that leap: for me, it was reaching a specific revenue figure, and for Michele, it was something else entirely. So let's exp...
Nov 11, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast I am talking to Michele Hansen, the co-founder of Geocodio, an indie SaaS business in the world of mapping and geolocation. I've been a fan of her work, both as a founder and as an active member of the Indie Hacker community for years now. I followed her journey with the business just as much as her foray into writing her first book, Deploy Empathy. Michelle really gets the founder community, and she's a respected teacher of all things customer development. In this episode, we chat about finding...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast In a world where everyone talks about disruption and hustling, the concept of a calm business can seem out of place or even naive. How can you compete with people who spend 80 hours a week working in their businesses —publicly boasting about their so-called "grindset"— when you treat your fledgling business as a side project that you only work on in the evenings? For many entrepreneurs, calmness is a pipe dream—a nice fantasy but impossible to accomplish. As you can probably imagine, I beg to di...
Nov 04, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast For most founders, running a business is juggling hot coals while riding on a unicycle. It's a stressful occupation, requiring constant vigilance, and offers barely any downtime to recover or relax. But it doesn't have to be that way. - Operating a Calm SaaS Business - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Oct 28, 2022•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast One of the biggest points of confusion for any software business is pricing. It often takes months, if not years, to find a working way to charge your customers, and even then, you'll need to adjust it over time. Pricing is never done, and often, it doesn't work. But fortunately, there are a few foundational choices you can make to keep your pricing efforts calm and manageable. Today, we'll look at what dimensions to price along, what kinds of subscriptions to offer, and which pricing models to ...
Oct 21, 2022•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Building a software product is both incredibly simple and excruciatingly complicated. You can build a new mind-blowingly helpful feature within hours, sometimes even minutes. But if you make the wrong technology choices, you might be rewarded with several months of additional work a few years later. Let's talk about building a product that can carry your SaaS business to success calmly and intentionally. - Product Development for Calm SaaS Businesses - Find your Following , my Twitter course — n...
Oct 14, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you're building an audience-centric and community-first business, you're delaying finding your business idea and building your product for as long as possible. First, you look into your market, validate the existence of a budget, and zero in on a critical problem to which people need a solution. And even now, we're not talking about the product yet. But we will talk about solving the problem. And there's a difference. - Solution Exploration for Calm SaaS Businesses - Find your Following , m...
Oct 07, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast - The Toxicity of Growth Hacks - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube.
Sep 30, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Problem Discovery for Calm SaaS Businesses - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Sep 23, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Arvid shares how he picks a market for a new business. - Market Analysis for Calm SaaS Businesses - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Sep 16, 2022•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast - On Art and Artifice - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube.
Sep 09, 2022•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Infrastructure of a Calm SaaS Business - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by The $100 MBA Show and MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Sep 02, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Entrepreneurial Strategies & Anti-Patterns for a Calm SaaS Business - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by The $100 MBA Show and MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Aug 26, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Business Models for a Calm SaaS Business - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by The $100 MBA Show and MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Aug 19, 2022•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Fundamentals of a Calm SaaS Business - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by The $100 MBA Show and MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Aug 12, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Fundamentals of a Calm Business - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . If you're thinking about selling a startup, you'll want to check out MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Aug 05, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast - How NOT to Use Twitter DMs - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . If you're thinking about selling a startup, you'll want to check out MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Jul 29, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Don't blame the market; blame your marketing - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . If you're thinking about selling a startup, you'll want to check out MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Jul 22, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast - On Saying No - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . If you're thinking about selling a startup, you'll want to check out MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Jul 15, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast - The Risks and Illusions of the "Post-Exit Retirement" - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . If you're thinking about selling a startup, you'll want to check out MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
Jul 08, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast - Permission to Follow Up: The Difference Between Owned & Borrowed Audiences - Find your Following , my Twitter course — now with Find your Following Essentials, the 7-day Twitter crash course This episode is sponsored by MicroAcquire . If you're thinking about selling a startup, you'll want to check out MicroAcquire . You can also watch this episode as a video on YouTube....
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