All Episodes
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56: Sunk Cost Fallacy Engineering
Arvid talks about the sunk cost fallacy and how he encountered it twice this week.
55: Customer Lock-In and "Insurance Features"
Arvid talks about how he approaches not making customers feel locked into his new SaaS permanent.link and how he built custom domain support.
54: Limiting Beliefs
Arvid talks about his new SaaS project and the struggle of building an MVP.
53: Early Tech Choices and Analysis Paralysis
Arvid talks about an unsettling experience he had with a side project — and how to avoid tech choice brain freeze.
52: "Audience-First" Is Not Just "Building an Audience"
Arvid talks about the difference between building an audience and building FOR an audience.
51: Finding an Audience for Your Side Business
Arvid shares a 5-step framework for finding a viable audience.
50: Priming Your Business for Due Diligence
Arvid talks about setting up your business to be as sellable as possible.
49: Preparing for the Sale From Day One: Getting the Documentation Right
Arvid talks about documentation and it's not boring!
48: At a Crossroads: The Different Kinds of Exits
Arvid talks about why companies get acquired and what to watch out for.
A Unified Voice: Staying Consistent When You Grow
Arvid talks about how to keep your messaging and internal positioning aligned.
How I Self-Published Zero to Sold, a Bestselling Book on Bootstrapping
Arvid talks about his journey writing and publishing a book that, to his surprise, sold 1000 copies within a week.
45: Positioning Is Where It's At
Arvid talks about how to approach positioning, and when to adjust it.
44: You Want a Tribe
Arvid talks about how you can leverage tribes for your business and shares his own experiences with these communities.
43: When You Reach Your Limits: Growing a Company Beyond the Founder(s)
Arvid talks about hiring — and spends a lot of time recounting his mistakes and the catastrophic results of not hiring early enough.
42: The Power of Omission: Killing Features for Fun and Profit
Arvid talks about removing features, the risks & advantages of pruning your product.
41: Made to Stick: Shaping an Extensible Product
Arvid talks about extensions and integrations, how FeedbackPanda benefited from them, and which obstacles they encountered.
40: Standard Operating Procedures: Managing Your Future Self
Arvid talks about how SOPs make your business more sellable, and how they worked at FeedbackPanda.
39: Roadmaps and You: Building a Future Together
Arvid talks about roadmaps, how they can be used to build trust, and where the risks lie.
38: Customer Retention: How to Keep Them Around / The Zero to Sold Launch
Arvid talks about ways to build lasting relationships with your customers and shares the learnings from his book launch.
37: Customer Exploration: Seeing Through Your Customer’s Eyes
Arvid talks about how to talk to customers to continuously validate your business. He also talks about platform and dependency risks.
36: Being Small Is a Benefit: How to Leverage Being a Bootstrapper
Arvid talks about how you can use being a bootstrapper to your advantage when dealing with prospects and customers.
35: Spreading the Word: How to Do Marketing on a Shoestring Budget
Arvid talks about how you can leverage tribes, water-coolers, and word of mouth for your marketing efforts.
34: Seller Beware: Pricing Models That Can Break Your Business
Arvid talks about the risks of Freemium and Lifetime accounts and how to keep an open mind as a founder.
33: Offer Yearly Plans from the Start
Arvid talks about the benefits of offering yearly subscription plans from the start.
32. How to Deal with Plans That No Longer Work / Profit Sharing
In a dual-topic episode, Arvid talks about delicately removing old plans and profit-sharing for your early employees.
31. Price Is Not Set In Stone: Strategies For Increasing Your Revenue
Arvid talks about pricing strategies, how to find a good initial price, cost/value/aspirational models, and more.
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.