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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.