Arvid Kahl
Empowering founders with kindness. Building in Public. Sold my SaaS FeedbackPanda for life-changing $ in 2019, now sharing my journey & what I learned.
Appears in 423 Episodes
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.
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).