How to Bootstrap Your Business From 0 to 2.3 Million in 18 Months
My guest this week is Will Koning founder of SaaSLead.io.
In this episode, you will hear the rollercoaster journey that is will's startup story, from dropping out of university to losing all of his clients overnight to being trapped in Barcelona in lockdown. Threw out the obstacles put in Wills's way he still came out on top and in the last 18 months has bootstrapped his business from 0 to 2.3 million.
If you’re looking to learn more about how to bootstrap a business, how to build a product being a non-technical founder and how to recruit new graduate talent, you're in the right place.
Structure:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Wills Crazy entrepreneurial journey
5:00 The Big Problem
12:00 How to convince Graduates to work for you?
16:00 How did you make revenue?
16:45 The value of Linkedin
19:55 How to optimise to be lucky
21:45 What are the best lessons you learnt around culture
26:45 How to build a product when you're not a tech founder
29:00 How to bootstrap your business from 0 to 2.8 million
30:00 Advice for university dropouts
32:00 Startup Hack
33:45 Startup Sin Bin
Books mentioned: What you do is who you are by Ben Horowitz
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