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The Impossibility of Separating Work & Life

June 27, 2023

There’s a lot of talk about “work/life balance” and figuring out how to find some sort of perfect equilibrium wherein your personal life is completely divided from your work building a startup. This...

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10 common mistakes founders make

June 27, 2023

Bless our little founder hearts. We’re eternal optimists who have great intentions paired with a propensity to try things that common sense would say is a bad idea. That means we try a lot of things,...

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How our remote team stays focused and productive

June 27, 2023

Working remotely is a huge and sometimes uncomfortable change for folks used to working 9-to-5 in an office setting. Every remote worker has their own unique set of challenges to overcome to stay...

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Failing Slow: Why One Founder Regretted Keeping His Startup Alive

June 27, 2023

Failing Slow: Why One Founder Regretted Keeping His Startup Alive

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How we generated a $14,000 influx of cash in 7 days

June 27, 2023

We recently tried something that got us an extra $14,000 in cash in seven days. Let’s take a look at how we did it.

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True tales of engineering scaling

June 27, 2023

We recently wrote about how freemium nearly caused our business to implode. And the core of that impending implosion were scaling issues as a result of

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How freemium nearly caused our business to implode

June 27, 2023

Three months ago, we introduced a Free plan…and it nearly brought Baremetrics to its knees. Let’s take a look at what we did, how it affected our business and how it was ultimately a failure.

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Beginner’s Guide to Making Product Announcement Videos

June 27, 2023

If a picture says a thousand words, then a 30 second video at 30 frames per second can literally say 900,000 words. That’s a lot of words! Follow along and learn how to make short videos to promote...

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How one startup beat the average churn by 1000%

June 27, 2023

Churn is the silent killer of growth. It's the sieve that keeps your business from taking off. It's the reason growing a SaaS company can be such a slog. Few people realize how dramatically just a...

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Step-by-Step: Creating amazing GIFs to announce new features

June 27, 2023

GIFs aren’t just for cats anymore! At Baremetrics, we use GIFs to announce and explain new features on Twitter and in Intercom. Follow along and I’ll show you, start to finish, how to make them for...

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How to get startup insurance & avoid getting sued in to oblivion

June 27, 2023

The world of insurance is, seemingly, a black hole of conflicting information and sleazy salespeople who are trying to dupe you into buying something you don’t need. And between generating some good...

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Lessons learned building & managing a remote team

June 27, 2023

The cost of building a startup continues to get cheaper and cheaper, and one of the big drivers of that is the ability to build a team of people all over the world. Building a fully remote team gives...

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The Startup Guide to Finding & Measuring Product/Market Fit

June 27, 2023

One of the methods that a lot of startups look to for validation is “product/market fit”, and in this article we’ll take a look at what product/market fit is, how to find out if you have...

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How to use customer feedback to drive your business

June 27, 2023

While customer feedback is crucial to your startup, it’s also something most founders have a love/hate relationship with. How do you decide if feedback is valuable or not? How do you keep complaints...

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How To Fully Automate Customer Feedback

June 27, 2023

We’ve been using Promoter.io, Zapier and Intercom to fully automate the collection of NPS scores and comments as well as initial replies to the feedback. Doing this saves a ton of time without...

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Maker to Manager: What a startup founder does

June 27, 2023

I’ve struggled with what exactly it is that I do here. I’ve hired people who are each exponentially better at their craft than I ever could hope to be. So where does that leave me? I rarely make...

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Build vs. Buy: How to blow $100,000 saving money

June 27, 2023

Historically businesses and startups are really tightlipped. Everything is a trade secret. Everyone is constantly wondering what their competitors are doing and if they’ll suddenly get crushed by...

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The Open Startups Initiative

June 27, 2023

Historically businesses and startups are really tightlipped. Everything is a trade secret. Everyone is constantly wondering what their competitors are doing and if they’ll suddenly get crushed by...

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How to organize the daily chaos of running a startup

June 27, 2023

As a Founder, you’ve got your hand in everything imaginable, from legal paperwork to hiring to product management to support and everything in between. You’re pulled in every direction from everyone...

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The Startup Guide to 1-on-1’s

June 27, 2023

If there’s one thing I’ve found to be true over the past year and half of building this company, it’s that I’m completely winging it. Sure, I’ve read articles and books on how to build a company, but...

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The 17 emails we send to engage customers, reduce churn & increase revenue

June 27, 2023

From the start of Baremetrics I’ve wanted to stay away from being a faceless company. Given we’re a B2B company, that’s relatively easy. We’re not dealing with 10,000 or 100,000 customers here, so...

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Why we spent $250,000 in 120 days (and the mistakes we made)

June 27, 2023

A few weeks back I wrote about our experience going from bootstrapped to funded as we raised a $500,000 round, why it was good for our business and some of the things we’ve learned along the way....

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The Fallacy of Motivation

June 27, 2023

Most days now I wake up before my alarm goes off (at 5am) and I immediately hop out of bed, excited to get the day started. But that wasn’t always the case, especially when things weren’t going...

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How to Pull Off a Startup Retreat

June 27, 2023

In mid-January we did our first retreat as a team. Since we’re completely remote, this was the first time most of our team had met and worked with each other face-to-face. I’ll take you through how...

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How we grew from $0 to $25,000/month in 12 months

June 27, 2023

One year after Baremetrics was launched, we hit $25,000 in monthly recurring revenue. I’ve tried a lot of things to grow the company over the past year. A few things have worked well. A lot of things...

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