Founders Journey

tl;dr In the past 6 months I turned down multiple $3-5m offers and failed to close a $5m sale. In the past six years of ...

I failed to sell Baremetrics for $5m. While failure is 100% a part of success, it’s only useful if you learn somet...

Earlier this year I failed to sell Baremetrics for $5m. But I learned a heaping pile of things from that and one of the ...

Get the SaaS financial model, Google Sheets template, and step-by-step instructions you'll actually update!...

Contrary to what's pushed in the tech echo chamber, growth is not just about acquisition or optimization. How do you be ...

Who doesn’t want to be innovative? If you asked a room full of CTOs… not a single hand would go up. But what is ...

Pricing is of the most overwhelming and puzzling parts of business. This guide covers SaaS pricing models & strategies, ...

Data science is beginning to replace spreadsheets for founders wrestling with uncertainty in their business models. How ...

Remember how much easier a video game became once you found a cheat code?  If you’re looking to build a produ...

There are more startup funding and financing options out there than ever before. We explore all options for bootstrapped...

We were frustrated. When we started Demio, we firmly believed that webinars were the most powerful marketing tool for br...

Intros, a product we launched to great fanfare three months ago, is being shutdown, having never made a single penny and...

This is the Baremetrics Growth Manifesto — the same one that sits in our internal wiki — that we use to guide everyt...

Yesterday I wasn't feeling great, mentally. I had a level of anxiety I hadn't felt in a long time that started in the mo...

Since the beginning of Baremetrics, especially when we started making our data public through Open Startups, I am regula...

It’s pretty clear that when Allen Gannett, CEO and Founder of TrackMaven, wrote his first book The Creative Curve,...

How good are you at converting free trials into paid users? If you’re like most companies, probably not as good as you...

Jack Ma, founder and CEO of Alibaba, attributes the growth of his company to customer feedback. In one interview he said...

As founders, a lot of our identities get wrapped up in our companies. Certainly within our industries, but even to famil...

We all need traffic. Targeted traffic to our sites that’ll convert. SEO, PPC ads, organic social media posts, blog...

A couple of years ago, we were in a hard spot. I had just realized we were mere weeks away from running out of cash and ...

We’ve staked the success of our business, RightMessage, on a big assumption: More relevant, more targeted messaging an...

When you’re just getting started, everything feels like a big deal. Everything. The tinniest things can turn in to hug...

“So… do you want me to come like… talk to other people that I know? Talk to like my lawyer… sort of ...

Given you probably just finished closing your books for 2017, it’s a good time to introduce changes to plan for the co...