15 pieces of advice for beginning bootstrapped SaaS founders
- Start small and focus on a single product.
- Build an MVP and validate the customer need.
- Build a simple website and create a landing page to capture leads.
- Research and understand your target market.
- Leverage free or low-cost marketing channels to get your message out.
- Focus on customer service and make sure your customers are happy.
- Use available tools and platforms to automate processes and save time.
- Set up a referral program to get more customers.
- Utilize word-of-mouth marketing and social media to increase your reach.
- Look for opportunities to partner with other businesses.
- Install analytics and track your metrics to stay informed.
- Stay up to date on the latest trends in the industry.
- Don't be afraid to pivot and change course if your initial strategy isn't working.
- Don't be afraid to outsource certain tasks like development or design if it will save you time.
- Constantly be looking for ways to optimize and improve your product and processes.
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This is an incredible check list.
I'd sign it off by saying to remember to have a life outside of your start up desire. Stay active, social and safe.
Currently at stage 4 and excited to share it with IH'ers soon!
Good advice. I think that's probably the hardest part of building a startup: work life balance and mental health.
Absolutely agree!
You're welcome! It's always nice to hear from other people. I'm glad you enjoyed my post.
I used Open AI to make the reply too.
If you're really a beginner. Only focus on 1 and 15
Super useful, thank you!
I see a lot of beautiful, intricate landing pages but it feels daunting to make one. any examples of more simple/minimalist pages?
1 and 2 are essential, also try to launch as soon as possible, don't keep adding new features or trying to make the perfect product before launching.
Nice and we'll functional points Alexander. For beginners like me they will help a lot.
Great post, Alexander. What's been your biggest free or low-cost marketing channel to get your message out?
Nice tips Alexander
Thanks but these tips were generated by a machine 😅 See my comment below.
Cool!
You have mentioned its completely AI-generated content. Anyways useful and good content.
If you learned something new from the content above it means a machine can teach you.
The text was generated by Open AI.
Have a great day! 🙂
Sure, AI can teach us. It's not innovative, though. It can analyze more content than we do and rearrange it. But it's not gonna be creative and come up with new ideas.
I imagine myself asking AI "how to do dishes" or "10 tips for writing" before anything I do. Just because it will remind me of something obvious I could forget.
That I like. :-)
I also think it's okay to let AI draft an article.
What I don't like is AI engaging on social media by rephrasing previous posts. That simply doesn't add value. Though I understand that it increases the formal engagement numbers.
I believe there will be a boom in AI-generated texting: product descriptions, articles, social media posts, and even books. But soon people will start recognizing generated text and instantly skip it. Then the old good human-generated text will become in use again. The texts will become even better than today.
Working on writing projects together with AI can make sense. But let's not leave thinking to AI and pretend it was our own writing. That's gonna lead in the wrong direction.
It is an output of my own input 😎
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If you keep making low-effort self-promotional comments like this, your account will be banned. Just a warning.