THE VIDEO SHELF · bootstrapped business design
Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen
Jason Cohen's MicroConf talk on designing a bootstrapped business by starting from your own strengths, goals and constraints. He works backward to the business model, pricing, market and product that fit, with practical points like annual prepay and pricing tiers.
Why HN readers recommended it
It is the go-to talk HN commenters recommend to anyone asking about bootstrapping, SaaS pricing, or choosing bootstrapping over VC.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Rob Walling
- Topic
- bootstrapped business design
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 13
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2024
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From the original HN conversations
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In Australia our major commercial banks offer unsecured loans to businesses based upon the business' cash flow. Example eligibility requirements: turnover of at least $75K per year ; have been operating as current registered business for 1 year+ ; you can provide 12 months of …
shoo on Hacker News · 2021-02
In Ask HN: Have you taken on debt to fund your startup?A couple of things need to be balanced, I think, as I'm doing just that with PriceUnlock ( [LINK] ) PriceUnlock will help SaaS owners finds the perfect pricing for their product, with more upside and less downside when trying new prices. Besides, it helps …
chdaniel on Hacker News · 2021-04
In Ask HN: Where do you find potential customers to validate your idea / MVP?This talk is the holy grail on this topic [VIDEO] niche b2b, w/ natural recurring cycles, $99 price point at a minimum, and not needing to be on call is most ideal
yoshyosh on Hacker News · 2021-04
In My experience releasing failed SaaS products
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