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by a13n 8y ago
Ask and you shall receive! https://canny.io/blog/saas-startup-ramen-profitability/ https://canny.io/blog/lessons-learned-bootstrapping-saas/
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by a13n 8y ago
We don't target bootstrapped and early stage startups. Our target audience is B2B software companies with 10-1000 employees. We don't sell to enterprises. We've thought about introducing a free tier for smaller companies!
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by a13n 8y ago
The stress of having no choice except being successful in your venture can be a huge forcing function / motivator. Steady paychecks are comfortable. Comfort isn't motivating for me.
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by a13n 8y ago
Good for you! A load of people struggle with this, and I think you're downplaying how hard it is for them. It takes a load of energy to work a full-time job, then come home and work on your side gig. I used to come home from work and n
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by a13n 8y ago
Heck no I don't regret it. Just over three years ago I left my cushy job at Facebook to start a company. It took a year and a half of grinding to make our first dollar. Now we're ramen profitable and still growing strong. [1] The
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by a13n 8y ago
This is truly inspiring. We're bootstrapped and profitable. Unfortunately we incorporated as a Delaware C Corp because we didn't know we wouldn't raise. If non-VC were more normalized, like Rand thinks maybe it should be, it
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by a13n 8y ago
We actually spent three months in Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines and also had a fabulous experience with cell data.
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by a13n 8y ago
I was in Seoul last week. I had 400Mb/s on my phone... It's devastating how far behind some first-world countries are in data infrastructure.
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by a13n 8y ago
> Working long hours or weekends is not encouraged nor celebrated. What does this have to do with building a remote-only company? Different companies have different cultures, and that's okay. Would Uber be nearly as successful if th
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How to be productive without an office(canny.io)
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Profit Sharing for Bootstrapped Companies(nathanbarry.com)
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by a13n 8y ago
That's it? A short list of stuff that has worked for B2B SaaS companies? Would love to hear more, like when it works / for which kinds of companies.
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by a13n 8y ago
> Note we don't want to avoid taxes, that's not what we're doing. Tax avoidance is perfectly legal and encouraged to maximize shareholder value. Tax evasion is illegal. > First, we can't offer options/stock to
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by a13n 8y ago
I lived there for 3 years and left a year ago. I lived in Nob Hill, Mission, Noe, and Castro. When I was first there, I felt a strong disgust towards tech. People protesting shuttles, hateful graffiti, news articles about it. Tech workers w
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by a13n 8y ago
I have a ModalContainer that passes down this.context.openModal. https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html
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by a13n 8y ago
React Native isn't just for iOS / Android, it also works for macOS and Windows. React Native is React Native for the desktop.
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by a13n 8y ago
You might recognize a few on this list: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html
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by a13n 8y ago
1) Market disagrees with you strongly, hence hundreds of millions of people using it regularly. 2) He's just having fun, working on a side project that's useful to him, and learning. Nothing wrong with any of that. Why so negative
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by a13n 9y ago
They started doing pro rata rights a few years back, and terms have changed over the years. It's unclear exactly how good their return is. That $80b isn't liquid.
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by a13n 9y ago
The value of Uber isn't the app, it's the network of drivers/riders.
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by a13n 9y ago
This is plain wrong. You don't need to create a billion dollar company to be a successful entrepreneur, even though that's what investors want you to think. By Steve's definition, you just need to make more than you would at
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by a13n 9y ago
The market makes up its own mind
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by a13n 9y ago
Just weigh the benefits and costs of supporting Linux and it's obvious why they made that decision. How many million people are not playing Fortnite because they don't support Linux? I bet it rounds to zero.
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by a13n 9y ago
It's not that simple. Some businesses would lose a fortune if they started pricing this way. Particularly if you sell to enterprises. Many companies will make more money by sizing them up and giving them an optimal custom price.
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by a13n 9y ago
I'm from Seattle. My friends and I used MSN too.
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by a13n 9y ago
Why do you need to use that method so often?
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Putting $125M to work for you, our customers(blog.intercom.com)
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by a13n 9y ago
The quote isn't from 2010, it's from 14 years ago when Zuck was 19.
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by a13n 9y ago
If you want to acquire users from Google search you can always just run paid ads too. Much easier than writing evergreen content.
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by a13n 9y ago
I agree with you that per-user pricing doesn't make for an ideal SMB experience. We specifically avoided it for our SaaS tool for the reasons you mention. That said, the costs of SMBs getting away with one login do not outweigh the ben

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