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Matthew Gira

What I learned from 56 $250k+ businesses

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

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.

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Helpful Content from Others:

​Sam Parr & his magazine article​

Sam Parr works out of a library and sometimes goes to the magazines to flip to a page he's on to see if people notice. How funny.

​Everybody Writes Book​

If you're looking to become a better copywriter, check out Everybody Writes by Ann Handley. It's been helpful for me to reference when it comes to crafting LinkedIn posts especially.

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Thanks for reading!

Matt

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Matthew Gira

Matthew Gira

How bootstrapped businsses go from $0 to $250k in annual revenue.

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