Bootstrap Founders
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
Startups For the Rest of Us 
Top Founders
3 statements about Bootstrap Founders, every show
Rush: End game is providing the full software stack for bootstrapped founders
“I actually want to End up having this full ecosystem where I have every single tool that a typical busy founder or like a bootstrap founder would ever need starting from tools for building products, tools for operating tools for growing and tools for monetizin…”
Walling: ~30% of bootstrapped SaaS founders would consider raising funding
“And when we surveyed folks for the state of independent SaaS, it's somewhere around one in four, or almost one in three, like around 30% of Bootstrap founders say they would at least consider raising funding.”
Orangio: Bootstrapped founders should offer free trials without upfront credit cards
“So when it comes to not requiring a credit card on the free trial, this is actually the model that I recommend the most to bootstrap founders because you do get more data in, but not so much data like you would in freemium, but not so little like you would wit…”