I sold my app for $5 and Got Called Crazy—Here’s Why It Worked
Found out why this person sold their app for just $5 despite skeptics and read to know if their bold strategy paid off.
Latest
How I wasted 3 years of my life on a SaaS app people didn't want
In 2019 I quit my comfy corporate job build an app to find healthy food whilst you're on the go. The idea was simple - A list of healthy food choices around you, wherever you are in the world. Think Deliveroo or Uber Eats but with only healthy choices. We
How Jotform grew from 1k users to 25m
Find out how this person created Jotform and grew it from 1,000 users to 25 million.
How I grew my mobile app to 1.4 million downloads
I started developing the app in early 2017, well before the AI era, when mobile apps were at their peak popularity. My idea was to create an app for emotional and psychological support in the form of helpful articles and various quizzes, such as personality assessments and life satisfaction tests.
3 Simple Categories of Success
If you have a bad product and good marketing - Many will buy it, but only once. If you have a good product and bad marketing - It will take a long time until people find out about it. If you have a good product and good marketing - That's
How I launched my first saas and lessons learned
After 4 or 5 years of working for a company I was laid off last October. So, I thought this is a good time to get back into building my own products as I had good savings and could afford to take a year off. If nothing else, you learn
How I bootstrapped a $40m company - Epic failures, successes, and heartaches
How I bootstrapped a $40m company overnight, and by overnight, I mean it took 11 YEARS and I SURE AS HELL didn’t build it by myself. Here’s my story, my epic failures, the successes, and the heartaches. 2010: I was 22 and worked at an engineering firm as
How I launched my first SaaS and how it failed miserably
About two years ago, I had this “million dollar” idea of a SaaS. I’ve built it, launched it and failed miserably. Here is what happened. The idea The idea was simple. A wedding RSVP platform that allows users to create a landing page for their wedding then either send
If only someone told me this before my 1st startup
1. Validate idea first. I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed. 2. Kill your EGO. It's not about me, but the user. I must want what the user wants, not what I want. 3. Don't chaise investors, chase users, and then investors will be chasing you. 4.
I lost $300k on a project: 3 lessons I learned
My name is Igor, I'm 27 years old, I'm from Ukraine. I invested $300k in the project and closed it without earning anything. What did we do? In 2019 we made “Uber for plumbers.” Is your pipe leaking? Leave a request and the master will be there in 20 minutes.
We Failed Such A Great idea
7 years ago, we started a startup to challenge Carta, we raised $1M, got our first 100 users, and tons of optimism. 6 years later we went bankrupt. In 2017 I was playing cageball in Oslo when I met my old friend, who said he just started a new startup,
Don't Set Out to Make Money
It's very easy to get lost in day dreams of fancy cars, big houses, exotic places, and expensive things. How many of you think about products you can sell or services you can offer that will make a lot of money? Why not? If you can sell something or provide
How to change your mindset from coder to entrepreneur in 9 steps
These are the 9 steps I’ve learned on how to become profitable as an entrepreneur who was previously a software engineer at Microsoft. The process reminds me of writing efficient code: 1. CODE: Understand the requirements ENTREPRENEUR: Understand your offer and targets 2. CODE: Strategize solutions given the available
The 48 Laws of Power
Law 1 - Never Outshine the Master Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they
A Guide to Being a Winner
I've been in this business for years, long enough to see people fail or succeed and draw my own conclusions as to why. I have friends who made fortunes in this business and others who basically flopped and played with IM like a hobby. Everyone wants to be a winner,
5 Lessons I learned from selling over 1800 copies of software.
So I was feeling nostalgic. I decided to go through some of my old stuff. Then, I remembered when I used to write scripts for sale. I looked at my vendor dashboard to ponder about "the good old days." Then, I looked at the number of copies sold. The number
Tips
How to Scale a Business
A comical analogy... Have you ever wondered what people mean by "scaling" a business? They say once you find a method to make money you need to scale it to make more money. I offer below a clearer example everyone could relate to. Take for example the street beggar. I
Inspiration
The Road to Freedom
Does anyone else want to be an entrepreneur only because you find the idea of being an employee disgusting? It bothers me to my core to be someone's subordinate. Call me narcissistic or worse, but it's just how I feel. I'm actually humble and nice towards others. I definitely don't
Tips
This 1 Thing Separates People Who Do, From People Who Dream
Steve Jobs achieved massive success as the co-founder of Apple, but he also was no stranger to massive failure. Like the time Jobs was fired from Apple at the age of 30. Or how about the time he launched numerous product failures. Remember these? The Apple Lisa. Macintosh TV. The
Inspiration
The Art of the Pivot
I am glad to see the back of 2023 and in general I look forward to the New Year anyway. I have read some excellent stories on this sub and thought I would share my own. I did OK dropshipping on Wish years ago. Since then I started a few
News
Steve Jobs Said 1 Thing Separates Successful People From Everyone Else
22 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said 1 Thing Separates People Who Achieve From Those Who Only DreamWhile this sentence is one you might not expect from Steve Jobs, it is one that all of us can -- and should -- say.Inc.Jeff Haden
Inspiration
Get 1,000 people to give a dollar
Here's a hypothetical question for debate. "Is it easier to get 1,000 people to give $1, or 1 person for $1,000?" Say you needed $1,000. Would you ask 1,000 people for a buck or try to find a single person to give you the lump sum?
Tips
18 Mistakes that Kill Startups
October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed — if you avoid every cause of
Tips
Journey Down a Hallway
Take a journey down the hallway of starting your business and explore the many doors of opportunity that you can unlock.
Tools
400 Free Tools and Resources For Entrepreneurs and Startups
A collection of valuable resources to help every budding entrepreneur and startup.
Tips
#1 Reason Why Startups Fail
Is your startup failing because you are doing this one thing?
Inspiration
Steve Jobs Said 1 Thing Separates Successful People From Everyone Else
Steve Jobs had extremely high expectations. He challenged himself—and the people around him—to work smarter, work longer, and work harder so he, and they, could accomplish everything they dreamed possible. Jobs believed in the power of asking. Jobs believed the future was something we can all make our
News
Success Will Come After You Learn this Trait
Warren Buffet says to all entrepreneurs that success will come after you learn this one leadership trait.
Tips
10 Reasons Why Your Website Sucks
This post is based on a LinkedIn article written by SEO specialist and CEO of iRankFast Marshall Adler, who wrote about the top reasons why websites suck and fail to get conversions. There are no test cases or cases studies to back his claims, and like most things on the
News
A Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke...
Charles “Chuck” Feeney was an entrepreneur who amassed billions co-founding the company Duty Free Shoppers in 1960, a high end retailer of luxury goods found at major airport hubs across the world. Many of us dream of becoming a billionaire, thinking about how we would spend our money and all
Tips
3 Keys to Successful Project Management
There are three components I feel that are very important to manage wisely to help have a successful project. They are, Time, Money, and Quality and should be fairly straightforward to what they relate to. Time Time is how fast you want to get to the market and is also
News
DropBox Spends $100k on chrome statue
Dropbox, a popular file sharing company based in San Francisco, began to cut on its company employee perks in March 2016. Some of these cutbacks included shuttle service from San Francisco, and gym washing service, along with lavish parties, bonuses, and free lunches. A company wide email was sent to