The 3 Best Founder’s Journey: Building a Startup from the Ground Up Podcast Episodes
1) How freemium nearly caused our business to implode
Three months ago, we introduced a Free plan…and it nearly brought Baremetrics to its knees. Let’s take a look at what we did, how it affected our business and how it was ultimately a failure. https...Show More
2) Getting out of the startup rat race
I’m done. I’m tapping out. I’m bowing out of the startup rat race. No, we’re not shutting down Baremetrics. Very much the opposite. I’m just finished subscribing to and following the traditional start...Show More
3) Being a Solo Founder: Pros, Cons, Tips & Tricks
Founding a company is hard. You’ve got an infinite number of decisions to make while simultaneously trying to catch lightning in a bottle with creating something out of nothing. It’s even harder when ...Show More
4) Saving you millions of dollars: asset sale vs stock sale
Earlier this year I failed to sell Baremetrics for $5m. But I learned a heaping pile of things from that and one of the biggest things I learned about was the world of asset sales and stock sales. Th...Show More
5) 5 things I learned failing to sell Baremetrics for $5m
I failed to sell Baremetrics for $5m. While failure is 100% a part of success, it's only useful if you learn something. So, here are some of the things I learned from this little failure. Hopefully t...Show More
6) I almost sold Baremetrics for $5m
In the past six years of Baremetrics' existence, I've received dozens upon dozens of emails from folks interested in acquiring Baremetrics. When you're running a transparent company that's growing, it...Show More
7) Sunsetting Intros: A post-mortem on shutting down a product we just launched
Intros, a product we launched to great fanfare three months ago, is being shutdown, having never made a single penny and costing our team months of work. https://baremetrics.com/blog/sunsetting-int...Show More
Sunsetting Intros: A post-mortem on shutting down a product we just launched
11:15 | Feb 28th, 2019
8) Staying mentally healthy as a founder
Yesterday I wasn't feeling great, mentally. I had a level of anxiety I hadn't felt in a long time that started in the morning and really persisted through the night. I can't pinpoint it to any one spe...Show More
9) Why founders need hobbies
As founders, a lot of our identities get wrapped up in our companies. Certainly within our industries, but even to family and friends it’s how people know us. And over time, we sort of become our comp...Show More
10) How to identify your perfect customer
A couple of years ago, we were in a hard spot. I had just realized we were mere weeks away from running out of cash and had asked the whole team to take a pay cut while we figured out how to get profi...Show More