Zero to Sold

How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business

By: Arvid Kahl

Narrated by: Derek Botten

Zero to Sold is a comprehensive and actionable guide through the four stages of a bootstrapped business: Preparation, Survival, Stability, and Growth.

From your first idea to successfully selling your business for life-changing amounts of money, this book will help you become a world-class entrepreneur. By focusing 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 Sold tells the story of a sustainable, bootstrapped software business that grew to thousands of customers before it was acquired.

Arvid Kahl is 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 on The Bootstrapped Founder blog.

In Zero 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 Sold will be your guide.

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Indpirative

Amazing story about how you can build a profitable business from nothing without external investment.

Appreciated the Author's Personal Experience

Great walkthrough of the process of building and selling a bootstrapped internet business. Arvid's personal experience makes the book much more authoritative and interesting.

Read and then again

Great book for beginners and advanced builders. The only thing I wish there would more info on marketing and sales.

Helpful and thorough

This is a good assessment of the bootstrapped journey. I appreciated his deep dives into some of the programming best practices. Thought it was helpful overall.

Useful, concise, actionable--it's a good read.

This book is useful concise an actionable if you're interested in founding a SaaS business. It goes one layer deeper then I had expected on most topics, which was a pleasant surprise, and had more breath than expected as well.

I found it will worth the time and would recommend it.