Podcasts by Founder’s Journey: Building a Startup from the Ground Up
A weekly podcast by Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics, on his journey growing a startup.
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Bootstrapped to Funded: What's it like? Was it worth it? Should you do it? from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.869677
I’ve been building products and creating businesses for a solid decade. Prior to Baremetrics, I’d started just about every type of business imaginable: consultancy, ecommerce, content, software ...
ListenThe Fallacy of Motivation from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.857076
Most days now I wake up before my alarm goes off (at 5am) and I immediately hop out of bed, excited to get the day started. But that wasn’t always the case, especially when things weren’t going ...
ListenThe Startup Guide to 1-on-1's from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.849519
https://baremetrics.com/blog/startup-guide-to-1-on-1
If there’s one thing I’ve found to be true over the past year and half of building this company, it’s that I’m completely winging it. ...
ListenHow to organize the daily chaos of running a startup from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.794272
As a Founder, you’ve got your hand in everything imaginable, from legal paperwork to hiring to product management to support and everything in between. You’re pulled in every direction from ever...
Listen3 things we did to reduce churn by 68% from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.789729
If recurring revenue is a rainbow leading to a pot of gold, then churn is the dirty leprechaun trying to keep it all from you.
Okay, so my rainbow leprechaun metaphor is a little weak, bu...
ListenHow to use customer feedback to drive your business from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.782731
While customer feedback is crucial to your startup, it’s also something most founders have a love/hate relationship with. How do you decide if feedback is valuable or not? How do you keep compla...
ListenHow we generated a $14,000 influx of cash in 7 days from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.778302
When you’re building a business, cash is king. Cash lets you do things like hiring and customer acquisition, and the more of it you’ve got at any given time, the faster (theoretically) ...
Listen10 common mistakes founders make from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.773367
https://baremetrics.com/blog/founder-mistakes
Bless our little founder hearts. We’re eternal optimists who have great intentions paired with a propensity to try things that common sense w...
ListenHow we’re fixing “unlimited” vacation from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.764262
It’s a common startup benefit to have a “loose” or “unlimited” vacation policy. “Take all the time off you need!” “We don’t babysit you, take off whenever you need off!” But does anyone actu...
ListenHow to write a startup culture manifesto from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.755488
When I hear the words “company culture” my gut reaction is generally to contort my face in some way that conveys “Ewwwwwwww...
ListenThat new feature will not save your business from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.744283
https://baremetrics.com/blog/new-features-will-not-save-your-business
As a founder, you ooze optimism. It’s a necessary coping mechanism to deal with the volatile up’s and down’s of creat...
ListenCalculate what feature to build next from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.739768
https://baremetrics.com/blog/feature-framework
“What feature should we build next?” Ain’t that the question of the year? While that next feature Listen
Getting out of the startup rat race from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.704855
https://blog.baremetrics.com/getting-out-of-the-startup-rat-race-66a5a0ca3055
I’m done. I’m tapping out. I’m bowing out of the startup rat race. No, we’re not shutting down Baremetrics. V...
ListenHow to identify your perfect customer from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.656342
A couple of years ago, we were in a hard spot. I had just realized we were mere weeks away from running out of cash and had asked the whole team to take a pay cut while we figured out how to get...
ListenWhy founders need hobbies from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.650695
As founders, a lot of our identities get wrapped up in our companies. Certainly within our industries, but even to family and friends it’s how people know us. And over time, we sort of become ou...
ListenI almost sold Baremetrics for $5m from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.597127
In the past six years of Baremetrics' existence, I've received dozens upon dozens of emails from folks interested in acquiring Baremetrics. When you're ru...
Listen5 things I learned failing to sell Baremetrics for $5m from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.591710
I failed to sell Baremetrics for $5m. While failure is 100% a part of success, it's only useful if you learn something. So, here are some of the things I learned from this little failure.
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ListenSaving you millions of dollars: asset sale vs stock sale from 2023-12-13T15:36:24.586720
Earlier this year I failed to sell Baremetrics for $5m. But Listen
Sunsetting Intros: A post-mortem on shutting down a product we just launched from 2019-02-28T14:00
Intros, a product we launched to great fanfare three months ago, is being shutdown, having never made a single penny and costing our team months of work.
https://baremetrics.com/blog/suns...
ListenStaying mentally healthy as a founder from 2019-02-14T11:00
Yesterday I wasn't feeling great, mentally. I had a level of anxiety I hadn't felt in a long time that started in the morning and really persisted through the night. I can't pinpoint it to any o...
ListenNo, that thing is not a big deal from 2018-03-14T10:00
When you’re just getting started, everything feels like a big deal. Everything. The tinniest things can turn in to huge showstoppers that drain time and, in many cases, money. But the longer you...
ListenWhy we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog from 2018-01-24T11:00
Where to publish something has becoming a difficult decision for a lot of businesses. You read so many stories about using various channels to distribute content and grow traffic, it's hard to k...
ListenDon’t let personal health take a backseat in your company culture from 2018-01-10T13:00
When building a startup, so much emphasis is put on “the product” or even “the customers”. Everything else takes a backseat. On some level, and at some points in a company’s lifecycle, this make...
ListenEverybody’s winging it from 2017-08-16T10:00
Last week I hit some sort of boiling point with life and work. July was an incredibly stressful month for me both, personally and with work. Just lots of extremes, and it wore me down.
Ev...
ListenNavigating the long, slow SaaS ramp of death from 2017-06-21T10:00
There can be some really exciting days when you’re building a SaaS company, but the large majority are a slog. Just one foot in front of the other, slowly trudging your way up the hill in the mu...
ListenBeing a Solo Founder: Pros, Cons, Tips&Tricks from 2017-06-14T10:00
Founding a company is hard. You’ve got an infinite number of decisions to make while simultaneously trying to catch lightning in a bottle with creating something out of nothing. It’s even harder...
ListenMost startups are not “crushing” it from 2017-05-17T17:08
https://baremetrics.com/blog/most-startups-are-not-crushing-it
Ask any startup founder how things are going and they’ll tell you it’s “going great”. They’ll talk about some new feature th...
ListenStartups: Keep It Classy from 2017-04-12T10:00
https://blog.baremetrics.com/startups-keep-it-classy-5bba13285cc6
Building a business makes relatively sane humans do some insane things. The past 10 years have been the modern day gold r...
ListenThe startup echo chamber is making you deaf from 2017-03-23T19:09
https://blog.baremetrics.com/the-startup-echo-chamber-is-making-you-deaf-771eec220181
Being an entrepreneur is a lonely place, especially if you’re the founder/CEO. Sure, you may have co-...
ListenHow removing self-serve cancellations saved our business (and why it’s not as evil as you think) from 2017-01-18T10:00
https://baremetrics.com/blog/self-serve-cancellations-saved-our-business
There may be no topic in the world of business that spurs such impassioned responses than self-serve versus manual...
ListenOur system for scoring&prioritizing every marketing idea from 2016-09-14T10:00
https://baremetrics.com/blog/marketing-idea-scoring-system
What if you could put a system in place that instantly scores and prioritizes any marketing idea you had? You could focus in on ...
ListenOur 7 day launch sequence for announcing anything from 2016-08-31T10:00
https://baremetrics.com/blog/product-launch-sequence
Our 7 day launch sequence for announcing anything
If you launch something on the internet and no one is around to hear it, do...
ListenHow we increased annual upgrades by 30% from 2016-08-17T10:00
When you’re building a business based on recurring revenue, what you want is predictability. The “recurring” part has a pretty strong measure of that, but getting more of that recurring payment ...
ListenThe importance of reflection: How writing monthly updates improves our business from 2016-07-20T10:00
https://baremetrics.com/blog/reflection-business-updates
It’s easy to focus on forward momentum. Looking to the future naturally has an optimistic flair and so we spend more time thinkin...
ListenEmbiggening the Mission: We now support Recurly&Braintree from 2016-06-28T10:00
Today we’re launching the biggest update in Baremetrics history: we’re expanding our platform to support Braintree and Listen
Remote Hiring: Our 5-step Interview Process from 2016-04-27T10:00
You’ve plastered your job listing on every job board and social network known to man. Now comes the fun part: sifting through the hundreds or even thousands of applications. But how...
ListenThe Impossibility of Separating Work&Life from 2016-04-13T11:00
There’s a lot of talk about “work/life balance” and figuring out how to find some sort of perfect equilibrium wherein your personal life is completely divided from your work building a startup. ...
ListenWhy we’re changing how we calculate metrics from 2016-01-14T11:00
We just rolled out a change to Buffer’s very public revenue dashboard that resulted in a $25,000 increase in MRR. This article provides some backsto...
ListenHow freemium nearly caused our business to implode from 2015-11-10T14:00
Three months ago, we introduced a Free plan…and it nearly brought Baremetrics to its knees. Let’s take a look at what we did, how it affected our business and how it was ultimately a failure. Listen
Maker to Manager: What a startup founder does from 2015-06-24T14:45
I’ve long considered myself a “maker”. Heck, it’s the first word in my Twitter profile, so you know it’s official. I’ve been making things for the web...
ListenHow to Deal with Competition (or Not) from 2015-06-18T10:00
As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest sources of stress you have with your startup is likely your competition. It’s easy to become really paranoid about each move they make, each feature they l...
ListenBuild vs. Buy: How to blow $100,000 saving money from 2015-04-29T10:00
When you’re just getting started and you’re strapped for cash, you typically do all sorts of things to pinch pennies. It’s just part of surviving, and it’s a healthy thing to do when you’re not ...
ListenWhy we spent $250,000 in 120 days (and the mistakes we made) from 2015-02-11T10:00
A few weeks back I wrote about our experience going from bootstrapped to funded as we Listen
How to Pull Off a Startup Retreat from 2015-01-29T11:00
In mid-January we did our first retreat as a team. Since we’re completely remote, this was the first time most of our team had met and worked with each other face-to-face. I’ll take you through ...
ListenHow we grew from $0 to $25,000/month in 12 months from 2015-01-21T08:00
One year after Baremetrics was launched, we hit $25,000 in monthly recurring revenue. I’ve tried a lot of things to grow the company over the past year. A few things have worked well. A lot of t...
ListenHow I hired a team of 6 without having a clue what I was doing from 2015-01-15T13:00
Last week I wrote about our experience going from bootstrapped to funded, why it was good for our business and some of the things...
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