What are some resources that are useful to look at while I consider embarking on this journey?
My experience in RevOps & sales the last few years has been that so many influencers are trying to pitch you their guides and resources for a fee. It's made me suspicious of pretty much anyone selling their insights and made it hard to determine which are of actual value.
Second advice, use Ruby on Rails or Django as a web framework and don't follow after the complexities of JS and other newcomers. Phoenix (Elixir) is awesome but that will require much more efforts and expertise compared to the established and time-tested Rails and Django.
Good luck!
p.s. I'm writing this as a person managing a lifestyle business (LibHunt & SaaSHub).
p.p.s. I'd also recommend getting into the IndieHackers community for inspiration and shared experience.
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A stage 1 business depends on the founder doing the work; a stage two business depends on specific people doing the work; a stage three business has enough systems and checks in place that people are interchangeable.
With a stage two business, a critical person leaving can threaten the entire business. This is a particular issue in the software field where people tend to job hop. Creating a stable lifestyle company that is more than a three or four person shop, thus requires a large and sustained effort to document all critical processes. Don’t underestimate this challenge.
Microconf is also very high quality with great talks out there, a podcast and a slack community. Focused on SAAS software. Rob Walling, the founder, wrote a book recently. Not my area, but I heard good things about it.
I also like the Tropical MBA podcast. They get stories from entrepreneurs outside the shiny bubble (agency owners, Amazon FBA, SEO software, affiliates, etc)
Books that might interest you : Company of one by Paul Jarvis ; Profit First by Mike Michalowicz ;
Other good resources for entrepreneurs: - Seth Godin & Robert Cialdini for marketing - The Mom Test (how to talk to your users) - Made to Stick (how to craft stories and narratives) - $100M offers & $100M leads by Hormozi (currently reading them, it's mainly common concepts put in a simple and actionable way)
it's been offline for a while, but the read-only archive is still accessible: https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
His method is based on focusing on the end-user and understanding them more than they understand themselves.
Your suspicion is a natural objection, and Dane can teach you how to overcome such objections.
Of course, Dane practices everything he preaches. If his marketing still leaves you suspicious, then maybe his method is not for you.
Covers all the angles including for non technical founders.
My experience from going down this road with trading financial markets, where there’s as much snake oil as anywhere, is: Try them.
At least, to the degree you can afford, i.e. don’t spend your last $5k on some course that you’re counting on to save the day (it won’t).
Basically none of them will be the silver bullet they claim to be. But you will learn. Even if it’s only learning how the grift works. That’s eye opening, and helps you to see who is offering real value and who is selling cognitive bias.
Take the view that from any resource, you’re only looking to get a nugget or two. Eventually you’ll piece things together. Everything is basically just “the basics”, but understanding the basics in a logical sense is different than knowing how to operate those basics well.
I can think of a couple of meanings, but the first thing I’d recommend is a lawyer to figure out your language, privacy policy, exposure if using certain terms.
For example results, quality, etc would need legal documents to basically say ‘results may vary’ based on jurisdiction.