All episodes

42: The Power of Omission: Killing Features for Fun and Profit

41: Made to Stick: Shaping an Extensible Product

40: Standard Operating Procedures: Managing Your Future Self

39: Roadmaps and You: Building a Future Together

38: Customer Retention: How to Keep Them Around / The Zero to Sold Launch

37: Customer Exploration: Seeing Through Your Customer’s Eyes

36: Being Small Is a Benefit: How to Leverage Being a Bootstrapper

35: Spreading the Word: How to Do Marketing on a Shoestring Budget

34: Seller Beware: Pricing Models That Can Break Your Business

33: Offer Yearly Plans from the Start

32. How to Deal with Plans That No Longer Work / Profit Sharing

31. Price Is Not Set In Stone: Strategies For Increasing Your Revenue

30. You May Be Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Re-Evaluating Your Audience

29. Build for Value, Not for Applause: Product Management Under Heavy Constraints

28. First Things First: Feature Prioritization Frameworks

27. Forget Goals, Create Systems: Foundations of a Sustainable Bootstrapped Business

26. The Boring Truth of Successful Products That Survive

25. Making Tech Choices: Don’t Add Risk to an Already Risky Business

24. Not in House: On Reinventing the Wheel

23. Surviving a Recession as a Bootstrapped Business

22. How to Release as a Bootstrapper: Often, Early, and Safely

21. Scaling Your SaaS Without Scaling Your Anxiety

20. Too Many Eyes: Why Bootstrapped Companies Stop Being Transparent (Eventually)

19. Continuous Validation: Staying in Touch with Your Market

18. The Do's and Don'ts of the Minimum Viable Product

17. So You Got an Offer: How to Do Due Diligence on Your Potential Acquirer

16. Churn, Retention, and Revenue: What Makes Customers Stick Around and Why That's Important

15. How to Do Maximum Customer Support with Minimum Effort

14. The Bootstrapper’s Plight: The Social Headaches of Building a Business

13. The Myth of The Finished Product

12. Real and Imaginary Responsibilities of a Bootstrapped Founder

11. Your Initial Pricing Will Never Be Right, But Try Anyway

10. Do You Need a Co-Founder?

9. Finding the Most Painful Problem in a Market

8. Solution Validation Doesn’t Happen In a Vacuum: How to Talk To Your Future Customers

7. Determining the Size of a Market

6. Finding a Market to Build a SaaS

5. The Power of the Niche

4. Finding the Critical Problem: How to Work on The Right Things

3. Make It Sell Itself: On Referral Systems

2. Problem Validation: Making Sure You’re Talking To The Right People

1. The FeedbackPanda Story