All Episodes
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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.
26. The Boring Truth of Successful Products That Survive
Arvid explains the core attributes that make products stick around: focus, simplicity, and extensibility.
25. Making Tech Choices: Don’t Add Risk to an Already Risky Business
Arvid talks about how you can make sure you pick the right tech for your business.
24. Not in House: On Reinventing the Wheel
Arvid shares an actionable framework for deciding if you should build or buy (and the mistakes he made in the past).
23. Surviving a Recession as a Bootstrapped Business
Arvid shares the actionable steps you can take right now to recession-proof your business.
22. How to Release as a Bootstrapper: Often, Early, and Safely
Arvid explains how to release software effectively and safely.
21. Scaling Your SaaS Without Scaling Your Anxiety
Arvid talks about how he dealt with anxiety when running FeedbackPanda.
20. Too Many Eyes: Why Bootstrapped Companies Stop Being Transparent (Eventually)
Arvid talks about transparency, open data, and why bootstrappers usually stop sharing information about their businesses.
19. Continuous Validation: Staying in Touch with Your Market
Arvid talks about how you can make sure you're still solving the right problem for the right people and if you still enjoy it.
18. The Do's and Don'ts of the Minimum Viable Product
Arvid explains what an MVP is, how to scope and time it, and what should go into a successful product.
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.