I think, as bootstrappers, we need to abandon the "long slow SaaS ramp of death" trope.
1. That talk is nearly 20 years old (lots has changed)
2. I'm not sure it ever really applied to most successful bootstrapped businesses?
3. For many SaaS I know, the ramp was pretty fast.
Yes! And, it's really difficult to quantify what's normal in bootstrapping.
Difficult to measure what's most common for people starting SaaS.
(and even more difficult to know if we should including "everybody whoever starts a SaaS" in our sample).
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I think this is totally fair, as there are probably different types of SaaS now. Single founder, passion project, slow ramp to get to full-time to leave their day job vs team that needs profitability ASAP.
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a better framing of the question "is a slow ramp normal?" might be "how slow can you tolerate?" or "what are your goals, and how will you decide if the biz is meeting your goals?"
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Maybe the podcast should explore “am I normal?”

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Lol. It's both an impossible question, and a necessary question. Because humans want to know: "Am I on the right path?" In SaaS, it's a reasonable question: "Does my business have the right fundamentals to achieve the scale that I want?"
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