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  • Zero to Sold

  • How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business
  • By: Arvid Kahl
  • Narrated by: Derek Botten
  • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)
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By: Arvid Kahl
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Summary

Zero to Sold is a comprehensive and actionable guide through the four stages of a bootstrapped business: Preparation, Survival, Stability, and Growth.

From your first idea to successfully selling your business for life-changing amounts of money, this book will help you become a world-class entrepreneur. By focusing on your niche audience, finding their critical problem, and solving it with a product that your customers can't resist to pay for, you will learn how to create a recurring revenue engine that will make you financially independent.

It's easy to build software products. The hard part is turning them into viable businesses that stand the test of time. If you want to build a business that survives, you have to know what challenges you will encounter. Zero to Sold tells the story of a sustainable, bootstrapped software business that grew to thousands of customers before it was acquired.

Arvid Kahl is a software engineer turned entrepreneur who has accomplished just that. He co-founded and grew an online teacher productivity SaaS business called FeedbackPanda to $55,000 Monthly Recurring Revenue with his partner Danielle Simpson. They sold the business for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, just two years after founding the business. Arvid writes on The Bootstrapped Founder blog.

In Zero to Sold, Arvid shares his experiences, learnings, and insights from building a Software-as-a-Service business from start to finish. He shows what worked and what didn't work. If you want to build your own bootstrapped business and stay sane while doing it, Zero to Sold will be your guide.

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very enjoyable!

thoroughly enjoyed, gave me great insights and ideas I haven't previously thought about especially during the development stage. will certainly go through this again

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A fantastic guide for any start up

A brilliant step by step guide for any would be or budding entrepreneurs. Explains the how to's the woe's and the pro's of starting a business

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Anecdotal summary of thoughts, at best

The author starts talking straight away about the importance of marketing and that any product without proper market research is bound to fail. So far so good. The author then goes on to say that the product he and his partner launched came about completely by accident, without any market research and planning. The book is an endless list of anecdotal thoughts, at best, but provides no actionable take-away messages. After 4 hours of listening, I just can't continue, it feels like story time with grandad on a sunday afternoon, talking about his one hit wonder over and over again.

I have just finished reading (listening) to "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" which is less than half the length of this audiobook but contains probably still 3-4 times more information that is actually useful and actionable. It is also written by someone who seems to understand what they are doing (and following their own advice), having done this multiple times with different businesses. The chapter on marketing alone was orders of magnitudes better, providing you with actionable tasks that you can directly implement to find your own product ideas.

The best way to describe this current book, for me, is that this is one of those books you listen to for 10 hours and after you finish you can't remember a single thing what was said. To some there may still be useful lessons in here but I think you can find better sources than this.

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