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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.

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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.

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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