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Case Study: 13 Pre-Launch Traffic Strategies for Startups (Part 2 of 3)
This article is a guest post by Dan Norris, founder of Informly. In this 3 part series (part 1 here) I’m running through 13 pre-launch traffic strategies I am using for getting attention and building...
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Case Study: 13 Pre-Launch Traffic Strategies for Startups (Part 3 of 3)
This article is a guest post by Dan Norris, founder of Informly. In this 3 part series I’m running through 13 pre-launch traffic strategies (actually it’s turned into 14) I am using for getting...
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How I Grew My Startup’s Revenue 50% And Saved $60k Through Partnerships
Photo by b1ue5ky This article is a guest post from Eric Tarn. Eric is a co-founder of Onepager, a simple website builder which helps individuals and small businesses get beautiful sites up quickly and...
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Growth Hacking Without Venture Capital
This article is a guest post from Bronson Taylor. Bronson is a co-founder and host of Growth Hacker TV, the only educational platform focused exclusively on helping startups grow by acquiring,...
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Building a SaaS Business You Can Sell
This is a guest post by Thomas Smale from FE International, a website brokerage with an emphasis on SaaS apps. At FE International we speak to website owners on a daily basis who are looking to sell...
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The Biggest Gamble of Your Career
I’m in the midst of the biggest gamble of my career. The thing is, every chance you take feels like your biggest gamble while you’re taking it. When I left salaried employment for consulting in 2006...
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SketchNotes of My 2014 DCBKK Talk: “Optimizing Lifetime Value: How to Make...
In October I spoke at Dan & Ian’s DCBKK event in Bangkok, Thailand about how to make more money from your business. Through the mad illustration skills of one Maggie Appleton, here are SketchNotes...
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How I Created 4 Startup Explainer Videos for $11
When I was writing the copy for the home page of Drip, I ran into a bit of a challenge: the idea of marketing automation is still new to a lot of people, so not everyone is aware of how email...
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The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping
Between this blog, my podcast, MicroConf and the Micropreneur Academy, I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands,...
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What I Learned Buying, Growing, and Selling HitTail
In early 2011 I was looking for my next thing. Long ago I learned that when I’m not learning I’m not happy. And in early 2011, aside from hosting our first successful MicroConf, I wasn’t doing many...
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How to Force Yourself to Ship (Even Though It’s Hard)
It’s been a week and a half since we launched Drip’s biggest feature in 18 months, called Workflows. Had we not committed to a deadline, in public, 2-weeks prior to the ship date (when we published...
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3 Emails Every Early-Stage SaaS Should Be Sending Right Now
This article is a guest post by Christoph Engelhardt of SaaSEmailMarketing.net. Today I’m going to show you 3 emails that can change the trajectory of your SaaS business. The emails I’m highlighting...
View ArticleMy Next Act: Building The First Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers
When you hear the term startup accelerator you likely think of YCombinator, TechStars or 500 Startups. Accelerators traditionally cater to “unicorns” – companies that have the potential to be worth at...
View ArticleTinySeed Applications Open January 18th
Two-and-a-half months ago Einar Vollset and I announced TinySeed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. The response was overwhelming. Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets,...
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Roadblocks vs. Speed bumps
Image by Tomi Lattu I co-host a podcast that focuses on bootstrapping software startups. Last week as my co-host and I dug into some struggles he’s running into getting his product to escape velocity,...
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How to Deal With Public Criticism
Photo by Pedro Simoes Every once in a while I receive an email from a reader/podcast listener that goes a little something like: I made a change to my [UX/UI/positioning/pricing/terms] and it seemed...
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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 3)
Photo by psiaki This is final installment of a 3-part series covering my acquisition of HitTail. I’d originally planned on a 2 part series, but when parts 1 and 2 went to the top of Hacker News I...
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How a Seemingly Well-Planned Server Move Crashed, Burned, and Rose from the...
Photo by hisperati About 8 months ago I acquired a small startup called HitTail. You can read more about the acquisition here. When the deal closed, the app was in bad shape. Within 3 weeks I had to...
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Tell Everyone Your Startup Idea
This artice is a guest post from Joel Gascoigne. Joel is is the founder of Buffer, a smarter way to share great articles with friends and followers. He Tweets at @joelgascoigne and writes regularly on...
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Case Study: 13 Pre-Launch Traffic Strategies for Startups (Part 1 of 3)
This article is a guest post by Dan Norris, founder of Informly. Part 1 (of 3) – Introduction and Onsite Content Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that no traffic is free. Even if you aren’t...
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