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Zero to Sold

How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business

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Zero to Sold

By: Arvid Kahl
Narrated by: Derek Botten
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Zero to Sold is a comprehensive and actionable guide through the four stages of a bootstrapped business: 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 focusing 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.

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Listening to this book, Arvid clearly has a finger on the pulse of the founder community.

There are so many gems inside this book. Each with the potential to save a founder *days* (sometimes weeks) of wasted effort.

This book helps founders:
- Find a profitable niche
- Discover which problems they should be solving
- Avoid a BUNCH of mistakes and time sucks
- Better understand when they should be building something themselves or relying on third-party solutions

Love your work Arvid. I'm looking forward to reading your next book :)

- Jake
@bitofseo

Arvid really understands bootstrapped businesses

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amazingly detailed book. I never leave reviews but this was a great read. pick it up!

The best SaaS book

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