Arvid Kahl Zero to Sold

Zero to Soldis acomprehensive and actionable guidethrough the four stages ofa bootstrapped business: Preparation, Survival, Stability, and Growth. From your first idea to successfully selling your businessfor life-changing amounts of money, this book will help youbecome a world-class entrepreneur. By focussing on your niche audience, finding their critical problem, and solving it with a product that your customers can't resist to pay for, you will learn how to create a recurring revenue engine that will make you financially independent. It's easy to build software products. The hard part is turning them into viable businesses that stand the test of time.If you want to build a business that survives, you have to know what challenges you will encounter.Zero to Soldtells the story of a sustainable, bootstrapped software business that grew to thousands of customers before it was acquired. Arvid Kahlis a software engineer turned entrepreneur who has accomplished just that. He co-founded and grew an online teacher productivity SaaS business called FeedbackPanda to $55,000 Monthly Recurring Revenue with his partner Danielle Simpson. They sold the business for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, just two years after founding the business. Arvid writes onThe Bootstrapped Founderblog. InZero to Sold, Arvid shares his experiences, learnings, and insights from building a Software-as-a-Service business from start to finish. He shows what worked and what didn't work. If you want to build your own bootstrapped business and stay sane while doing it,Zero to Soldwill be your guide. You will learn how to: explore and validate your ideabefore you jump into building a prototype that no one needs.find a well-definedaudience, locate theircritical problem, envision asolutionthat fits into their workflow, and build aproductthat makes them want to pay. Then,build a repeatable processof selling your product: a business.grow your business sustainably andmake it sellable, even if you want to keep it forever. Or sell it for a life-changing amount of money. Either way, you can prepare. Zero to Soldis the ultimate business documentation:a memoir, a manual, a journal, and a guide. It will help you validate your ideas, build your products, and grow your businesses, whatever stage you might be at right now.