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What is the key learning across three bootstrapped organization exits? What kept you motivated on each exit and come up with the next one, throw some light on the approach towards a product, marketing, customer, etc?
I wrote about it a bit on my blog a while back, but perseverance has been my key learning as an entrepreneur. No matter how early success your product/company has, you need to keep putting one fit in front of the other and continue to march forward every day. You’ll have days when you wanna quit, but you have to keep at it to be successful.
One thing that you would highlight, that made you a bootstrapper-turned-fundraiser. What made the VC fund you!.
Our first investor mostly invested in me as a serial entrepreneur, but I know he also liked the business and the potential size of our market. Keep in mind that we raised our first check in the summer of 2015, which was very early in the creator economy.
And, 7 years with 28 people being a single founder and profitable since 2019, what are the qualities that any single founder should pay more attention to or direction to succeed?
That’s a good question!
It’s really important as a solo founder that you have a great leadership team around you. You’re really only as good as those top 2-3 people you have in your inner circle. A great leadership team will take a lot of the work off your plate, which lets you focus on the long-term strategy of the business.