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• soneca 7y ago
  Congrats on the success! The dominant advice for bootstrappers is to make a B2B product. Do you agree with this advice? Any tips for bootstrapping going B2B? What are the biggest differentiators that a bootstrapper that really wants to go B2C should include in their product? How can I work for you at 750words? :)
  • busterbenson 7y ago
    Thank you! I'm a firm believer that I agree with all advice sometimes, including my own. In that spirit, my advice that is sometimes useful is to ignore B2B and B2C labels and to look instead at what you think you can build that people would be willing to pay for. Then to test that hypothesis as early and as many times as possible. The biggest difference between bootstrapping and VC-strapping is that every step on the path of bootstrapping has to be able to sustain itself long enough to get to the next step. SaaS models are great for this because they can scale with the revenue. I'm happy to go into more detail about any of this but it's a huge topic so we'd need to narrow it down a bit more to prevent this from turning into a novel.
• abootstrapper 7y ago
  Honest question. Why $5 and not $10? Did you do any testing for the optimal price point?