Zero to Sold is a comprehensive and actionable guide to starting, running, and selling a bootstrapped business. I believe that bootstrapping is a desirable, value- and wealth-generating way of running a company. That's why I started writing in the first place.
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After selling FeedbackPanda, the EdTech SaaS that I co-founded with
@SimpsonDaniK, I finally had time to share what I learned in many years of bootstrapping. First I wrote blog posts, then a compendium, and then many readers asked for a book. Well, here it is!Pokaż ten wątek -
I would like to thank every reader of my blog posts, every listener of my podcast, and every subscriber for my newsletter. Without your feedback and insights, this would never have happened.
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I also worked with several professional editors to make sure this book can help founders and founders-to-be of all experience levels. It was quite an illuminating experience, I came up with a few dozen SaaS ideas just while writing. Some of which might even be good.
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And that's what Zero to Sold will help you with most: making sure you're working on the right thing. You will learn how to explore and validate your idea before you jump into building a prototype that no one needs.
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I will show you how to find a well-defined audience, locate their critical problem, envision a solution that fits into their workflow, and build a product that makes them want to pay. Then, build a repeatable process of selling your product: a business.
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Finally, you'll learn how to grow the business sustainably & make it sellable, even if you want to keep it forever. Or sell it for a life-changing amount of money. Either way, you can prepare. Having done these things myself, often multiple times, I'll show you a trick or two.
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Zero to Sold is actionable, pragmatic, and contains no fluff. I don't claim to know everything, but I'll share what I know, and you can figure out how you can apply these things to your own unique business.
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Zero to Sold is the ultimate business documentation: a memoir, a manual, a journal, and a guide. It will help you validate your ideas, build your products, and grow your businesses, whatever stage you might be at right now.
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If you want to support me and the Bootstrapped Founder blog, newsletter, or podcast, please feel free to check out the book. It's currently available in print and digital formats.
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You can buy the book in Paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3982195705
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You can buy the book as an eBook (ePub, MOBI), as an ePDF (optimized both for web and mobile reading), or both on Gumroad:https://gumroad.com/l/irsgh
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Please let me know what you think of the book. Any kind of feedback is welcome. The old compendium is still around, of course. It's linked from the book page. And it will be, forever.
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Also, I have documented the whole writing journey, and I'll be releasing a rather extensive blog post on how I conceptualized, wrote, and published the book. Guess I'll need to get started writing this blog post then :D
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Here are the sales figures 72h after the launch:https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1278721913402134529 …
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And here are the sales figures 4 days into the launch:https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1279055104876953600 …
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Here are the 5-day sales figures:https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1279407385161981952 …
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6-day sales statistics, coming up!https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1279764148885356544 …
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For anyone who is interested in checking out the table of contents of Zero to Sold, here it is, still including the two typos that are already fixed in both digital and print :)pic.twitter.com/Bp5x8ne93H
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Here are the two-week sales figures! https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1282680946026848260?s=21 …https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1282680946026848260 …
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And here are the 3-week numbers:https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1285236231928860674 …
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Week 7 numbers right here!https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1295375088854937601 …
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I've switched from cumulative reporting to 30-day window reports. Here is month 3:https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1312167785296916481 …
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It has been 7 months since I released Zero to Sold. At this point, I have sold over 3600 copies, ~20% of them Paperback. Reports are usually lagging behind by a few weeks, so I should be rather close to 4000 books sold. Here's a look at this month's sales figures!pic.twitter.com/zhty6io3V7
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I had a chat with my audiobook producers, and they are looking into why it isn't on Audible just yet. Seems like the book was declined for some reason, but we're figuring it out. Won't be long now.
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Quick update on the Zero to Sold sales here!https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1372575938626646018 …
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Paperback sales are starting to be reported, check the 4th screenshot. That one also includes royalties so far, in all kinds of currencies.
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