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To both you and raphinou and others battling with the same questions, I cannot recommend Rob Walling's work enough. His blog [0], book [1] and podcast [2] addr
by revorad 14y ago
To both you and raphinou and others battling with the same questions, I cannot recommend Rob Walling's work enough.
His blog [0], book [1] and podcast [2] address the exact concerns any new software bootstrapper faces.
He also runs the Micropreneur Academy, but I don't have any direct experience of that.
He also organises Microconf, and I really recommend watching his talk from last year - http://www.microconf.com/videos-2012.html http://www.microconf.com/videos-2012.html
The sheer number of products he has built, launched, acquired - both successes and failures - over the years gives all of his advice a lot of weight.
[0] http://www.softwarebyrob.com/ http://www.softwarebyrob.com/
[1] http://www.startupbook.net/ http://www.startupbook.net/
[2] http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/
PS I don't have any affiliation with Rob. I'm just really grateful for all his excellent work.
- raphinou 14y agoThanks for the links! Do you know of communities of self-employed/micro-entrepreneurs? I'm not interested in a booming startup scenario, rather looking to build a sustainable business.
- revorad 14y agoI've seen a few people ask this, and a few efforts towards building an online forum for bootstrappers to hang out. But they all tend to fizzle out. The community is scattered around the web on blogs, Twitter, Mixergy and here. I think that's a good thing - don't seek yet another place to shoot the breeze. Just get stuff done, and when you have a specific question, seek answers from experienced people in existing forums.