What I learned from 56 $250k+ businesses

Hi friend!

I'm so excited to share what I've been working on for months: The Bootstrapped Report. It's a study of 56 different bootstrapped businesses. You can check out some of my takeaways below and download the full bootstrapped report here.

What's one hurdle you're trying to get over with your business? Happy to try to help if I can!

Now, here's this week's deep dive:

Here's this week's deep dive:

For the past 6 months, I've been creating deep dives on how bootstrapped businesses grow from $0 to $250k. While I started noticing patterns, I wanted data to validate these gut feelings.

So I spent months digging deeper - analyzing my deep dives, listening to podcasts with bootstrapped founders, and studying "build in public" posts. The result? Research on 64 founders (56 businesses) that reveals who they are, what they built, and exactly how they built it.

I've compiled all the findings into the comprehensive download the full bootstrapped report here.

The main takeaways →

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Matt

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What I learned from 56 $250k+ businesses

Here's this week's deep dive:

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