We have this one member who’s skipped every box for 9 years—we still like him though.

I was a lost 22 year old - an IIT graduate making 5 LPA and toiling 14 hrs/day for an MNC.

Fast forward 5 years, I now employ 50 people at Aidetic, the AI Consulting firm I founded.

Here's the story of how we bootstrapped to $1M in revenue, warts and all.

Within our first 100 days, GrowthAssistant was at $50k MRR. Today, we're on track to do over $1 millions in MRR.

100% bootstrapped. Cash Flow positive.

We focused on: Hiring 10s, investing in them, doing our homework, and obsessing over client feedback.

Here's how 👇

95% circulating supply.

Bootstrapped from $100 to $100M.

No VC, No Angels.

No centralized control.

1,2M raise at 2,4M valuation.

5yo cockroach.

Cross-chain governance*
* On Ethereum
* On Arbitrum
* On Polygon
* On Avalanche

Only project in the industry to do it.

$DSLA

'Entrepreneurs bleed a little bit every day, but when they win they win big.'

Naval

The Golden rule to running Bootstrapped Startups is to stay profitable Month on Month.

Period!

Before the edit & after the edit. Reflected both in the timeline and our faces :D

Next week, Paul Millerd will be on The Bootstrapped Founder. And we'll dive into the pathless path.

'The beauty of entrepreneurship is that you don't need money to make money.'

I had an idea, worked hard, and bootstrapped a company to a $5M annual run-rate.

Then sold it.

Dreams are achieved by hustle, perseverance, and belief in yourself.

Possibly my #1 piece of advice for starting a highly profitable bootstrapped business as a solo-founder is this:

Make it a B2B business.

It's WAAAAAY easier to sell to businesses than consumers. Here are 2 examples:

Insanely happy to be part of such a great team and their $CAH community

Thriving in a bear market, bootstrapped and started with absolutely nothing. These are the results you get when fundamentals are strong 🙏

As a bootstrapped SaaS Startup we are getting on weekly basis these proposals from VC and investors.

We are not looking for capital or acquisitions.

What would you do if you were me?

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Product hunt update:

Phew - what a wild ride

Started late.
Had 0 formal game plan.
Couldn't devote 100% all day.

And still closed out at #9!

Thank you to all that supported the launch.

This wasn't only a win for Kidgeni, but a win for bootstrapped founders!

$2M+ revenue generated using the same site B2B SaaS site skeleton I'm about to show you.

I made a video covering:

⚡️ The complete site wireframe
⚡️ 7-figure SaaS examples
⚡️ ChatGPT prompts (for bootstrapped founders to take action NOW)

Comment 'Send' & I'll DM it to you.

$10M/ARR in 15 months

Faster than Slack, Zoom, Shopify & Hubspot

Fully bootstrapped. Just the boys Reio | Instantly.ai, Nils Schneider & Tim

Utterly insane and insanely grateful 🙏

I just read an article about a $20M/year bootstrapped business.

• SKU Pricing: $28.5k to $53.5k
• Product: Modular Swimming Pools
• Differentiation: Eco-friendly shipping container builds

Here's the story:

Few can relate that haven't bootstrapped a business..

A venture studio for bootstrapped startups.

Even self bootstrapped startups have better load scaling error handling COMEDK

I bootstrapped my agency with 0 employees.

1 year later, we've now made $400k+ in revenue & have 6 full-time employees on board.

If I had to do it all over again, here's exactly what I'd do:

Epoch 0 bribes are posted.

Our flywheel kicks of with $300,000 in bribes, bootstrapped by our partners Tangible 🏠💙.

For our community of Pearl Divers, this treasure is just the start 🤿

Just met an AI founder that did $3M in rev in 6 months. Bootstrapped.

$2.8M profit 😱

🚨Thrilled to announce In the Trenches - a newsletter where I will share practical frameworks, tools & tactics to level up in business and life.

Over the last four years, I have:

- Bootstrapped a company to $50m+ in revenue and exited to a Private Equity firm
- Angel invested…