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Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick
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English - November 02, 2022 13:23 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Marketing indie hackers bootstrapping Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Sam King is the founder of Flick, a tool for managing and growing your social media, doing over $3.5m ARR fully bootstrapped. Sam has taken a unique path into bootstrapping, first being a YouTuber, then running an agency before flipping it into a SaaS with Flick. There is an hour long extended version of this show available on the Indie Bites membership, head to indiebites.com/membership to sub.
What we covered in this episode:
Starting out as a YouTuberPivoting from YouTuber to starting an agencyPivoting the agency to start a SaaSMarketing Sam used to grow FlickAffiliate marketingBuilding an MVPHiring challengesRecommendations
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