Zero to Sold

Hello hunters! 👋 This book is my attempt to share what I learned over a decade of trying to build startups without sounding like I've figured out everything now that I had some success. I share my learnings in the context of what we tried, how it worked, and how it didn't — more often than not. So, what is this all about? *FeedbackPanda* is an EdTech SaaS that I founded with my life-partner Danielle Simpson. She was an English Online teacher who had English Online teacher problems in a huge English Online teacher community, so we build an English Online teacher productivity product to solve her problem, and sold it to her peers. We bootstrapped all the way, were profitable a few weeks after we launched, and grew the business for two years before we sold it. Being a good German, I made lots of notes and documented almost everything in the business. Zero to Sold is the ultimate document of a successful bootstrapped business: a memoir, a manual, a journal, and a guide. The book is a culmination of over 6 months of writing, every single day. It contains everything I know — and nothing else. It's as actionable and pragmatic as I could make it. You will: -🔍 Learn how to explore and validate your idea before you jump into building a proto type that no one needs. - 🎯 Find a well-defined audience, locate their critical problem, envision a solution that fits into their workflow, and build a product that makes them want to pay. Then, build a repeatable process of selling your product: a business. - 💰 Grow your business sustainably and make 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. I hope it will help you validate your ideas, build your products, and grow your businesses. Because building a business allows for wonderful things to happen, like this: Danielle and I worked hard while we ran FeedbackPanda, but we also had amazing opportunities. Here's us taking a well-earned sightseeing day on top of the Great Wall of China during a visit to a Chinese EdTech conference in 2018. That's the kind of stuff that building a business can make possible. Quick update: the book has now reached this incredible, INCREDIBLE milestone:

Isn't there any preview of this book? Even the table of contents is not seen properly.

Hi Everyone, Arvid is not only a great guy, he is also a great writer. His content about entrepreneurship is always inspiring and actionable.