Zero to Sold: How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business [图书] Goodreads
2020 - 6
Zero to Sold is a comprehensive and actionable guide through the four stages of a bootstrapped 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 focussing 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.

You will learn how

explore and validate your idea before you jump into building a prototype that no one needs.find a well-defined audience, locate their critical problem, envision a solution that fits into their workflow, and build a product that makes them want to pay. Then, build a repeatable process of selling your a business.grow your business sustainably and make it sellable, even if you want to keep it forever. Or sell it for a life-changing amount of money. Either way, you can prepare.Zero to Sold is the ultimate business a memoir, a manual, a journal, and a guide. It will help you validate your ideas, build your products, and grow your businesses, whatever stage you might be at right now.

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相比具体的建议,一般人更需要学习的是作者这种做成一件事情之后马上把自己变成专家出书疯狂变现的自信和能力。书本身内容比较一般,因为作者经历有限,而本书尝试涵盖的内容太多,大部分内容都没有具体的例子,而部分例子则在书中反复出现。不过毕竟作者成功把公司卖了几个m,在中国打击教辅行业之前全身而退(虽然这一点在书里完全没有提到),在Indie hacker里面算很成功的了,所以想学习的话值得一看。

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