Episode 615 | Bootstrappable Businesses, Cargo Culting, and How Pricing Affects Growth (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Startups For the Rest of Us
English - August 09, 2022 10:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MB - ★★★★★ - 675 ratingsCareers Business Technology business marketing entrepreneur entrepreneurship leadership finance entrepreneurs interview health fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In episode 615, join Rob Walling for a solo adventure where he covers what makes a business bootstrappable (and things to avoid), cargo culting, and how large of a business you can build at different customer lifetime value levels.
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Topics we cover:
[1:51] What makes a business bootstrappable?
[14:15] Cargo culting
[20:05] How large of a business can you build at a specific annual contract value or lifetime value?
Links from the Show:
Bootstrapper’s Guide to Outside Funding
Episode 613 I Hacking Your Founder Psychology
Episode 602 I Explaining SaaS Metrics to a Child
If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you.