MicroConf Growth 2019 Chris Savage, Wistia Most founders dream of building a product that eventually becomes a household name and sells for a billion dollars, but chasing that goal comes with some downsides. We chose a different path. https://microconf.com Join the conversation: microconfconnect.com Twitter: @MicroConf E-mail: [email protected] MicroConf 2020 Headline Partners Stripe Twitter: @Stripe stripe.com Basecamp Twitter: @Basecamp basecamp.com ...
http://microconfremote.com Chapter 3: Accelerating to $100K MRR and Beyond While the first $10K MRR may be one of the tallest hills to climb, sometimes, if you time things right and you’ve put in the work to be a known quantity within the communities, the social media circles, and the leading voices in your target market, you can feel the slow rumble of blastoff that has you moving towards your next milestones faster than you could imagine. That was the experience of lifelong friends and co-founders of Squadcast.fm , Zach Moreno and Rock Felder. It took them nearly 2 years to go from Launch to $10K MRR. In the last year, they’ve 10x’d that MRR to beyond $100K. In this talk, they’ve cover the three things that they can point to that carried them through this milestone, and the direction that they are currently headed. If you want to join in on the conversation with over 1400 other founders, join MicroConf Connect, a slack community space where you can meet founders from around the globe working on cool products in a sustainable way. Head over to http://microconfconnect.com for more details. This video was recorded ...
How did Omar Zenhom go from being broke with fewer than 300 people on his email list to 14,000 paying customers and 1 million attendees in 5 years? Omar speaks about his journey from 0 to 14,000 customers, launching his podcast The $100 MBA, which won several prestigious awards from iTunes, Forbes, and Fast Company) and the journey of bootstrapping WebinarNinja The not-so-secret to his success was treating relationships as his biggest asset. In this podcast, you'll hear about the following: His early background when he had no traffic or audience Why he pivoted and launched a 2nd podcast, The $100 MBA How pain points he experienced with The S100 MBA led to the early idea behind WebinarNinja Creating the initial MVP for WebinarMBA as a first-time SaaS founder who wasn't a professional developer The compound effect of building and managing relationships at scale ...
