A lot of people obsess over customers. They put customers at the centre of their business. This is yet another thing that is "mainstream thinking". Bezos did this, so let's all do this. I question that. There's nothing wrong with obsessing over customers, customers are important. After all, no customers = no business. Let's just not forget that there is another key component … [Read more...]
Front-loading the work
Doing a little bit of the work upfront can lead to massive upside. I first learned about this when I was in college, back in 2011. I was trying to get clients for my agency and I was doing a lot of email outreaches. Luckily, some of those secured me meetings with prospective clients. At that time I was following Ramit Sethi, a financial guru and best-selling author, and he … [Read more...]
What I did this week (4 – 11 June)
June 11th, 2020 This is not at all a full list, but since I mostly bootstrap my projects and basically, my customers are my investors, I thought it would be interesting to write some weekly reports about what I do. Without further ado, here is what I worked on this week: Personal and other work: worked 8 hours per day on average kept improving my Spanish posted value-add … [Read more...]
What I did this week (28 May-4 June)
June 4th, 2020 This is not at all a full list, but since I mostly bootstrap my projects and basically, my customers are my investors, I thought it would be interesting to write some weekly reports about what I do. Without further ado, here is what I worked on this week: Personal and other work: worked 8 hours per day on average kept improving my Spanish posted value-add … [Read more...]
I earned over 100,000€ as a solo-founder and bootstrapper
My name is Mike and I'm a software entrepreneur from Italy. Specifically, I like SaaS products which I build and bring to market by myself, without a team. SaaS is a business model where you typically sell access to a software solution for a monthly fee. I've been doing this for years, bootstrapping, which means that the products are self-sufficient: I don't put any money … [Read more...]