Founder’s Journey: Building a Startup from the Ground Up
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Founder’s Journey: Building a Startup from the Ground Up
A weekly podcast by Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics, on his journey growing a startup.
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Saving you millions of dollars: asset sale vs stock sale
Earlier this year I failed to sell Baremetrics for $5m. But I learned a heaping pile of things from that and one of the biggest things I learned about...
5 things I learned failing to sell Baremetrics for $5m
I failed to sell Baremetrics for $5m. While failure is 100% a part of success, it's only useful if you learn something. So, here are some of the thing...
I almost sold Baremetrics for $5m
In the past six years of Baremetrics' existence, I've received dozens upon dozens of emails from folks interested in acquiring Baremetrics. When you'r...
Sunsetting Intros: A post-mortem on shutting down a product we just launched
Intros, a product we launched to great fanfare three months ago, is being shutdown, having never made a single penny and costing our team months of wo...
Staying mentally healthy as a founder
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 morning and really persisted thr...
Why founders need hobbies
As founders, a lot of our identities get wrapped up in our companies. Certainly within our industries, but even to family and friends it’s how people...
How to identify your perfect customer
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 had asked the whole team to ta...
No, that thing is not a big deal
When you’re just getting started, everything feels like a big deal. Everything. The tinniest things can turn in to huge showstoppers that drain time a...
Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog
Where to publish something has becoming a difficult decision for a lot of businesses. You read so many stories about using various channels to distrib...
Don’t let personal health take a backseat in your company culture
When building a startup, so much emphasis is put on “the product” or even “the customers”. Everything else takes a backseat. On some level, and at som...
Everybody’s winging it
Last week I hit some sort of boiling point with life and work. July was an incredibly stressful month for me both, personally and with work. Just lots...
Navigating the long, slow SaaS ramp of death
There can be some really exciting days when you’re building a SaaS company, but the large majority are a slog. Just one foot in front of the other, sl...
Being a Solo Founder: Pros, Cons, Tips & Tricks
Founding a company is hard. You’ve got an infinite number of decisions to make while simultaneously trying to catch lightning in a bottle with creatin...
Most startups are not “crushing” it
https://baremetrics.com/blog/most-startups-are-not-crushing-it
Ask any startup founder how things are going and they’ll tell you it’s “going gre...
Startups: Keep It Classy
https://blog.baremetrics.com/startups-keep-it-classy-5bba13285cc6
Building a business makes relatively sane humans do some insane things. The pa...
The startup echo chamber is making you deaf
https://blog.baremetrics.com/the-startup-echo-chamber-is-making-you-deaf-771eec220181
Being an entrepreneur is a lonely place, especially if you...
Getting out of the startup rat race
https://blog.baremetrics.com/getting-out-of-the-startup-rat-race-66a5a0ca3055
I’m done. I’m tapping out. I’m bowing out of the startup rat race....
How removing self-serve cancellations saved our business (and why it’s not as evil as you think)
https://baremetrics.com/blog/self-serve-cancellations-saved-our-business
There may be no topic in the world of business that spurs such impassio...
Calculate what feature to build next
https://baremetrics.com/blog/feature-framework
“What feature should we build next?” Ain’t that the question of the year? While that next feature...
Our system for scoring & prioritizing every marketing idea
https://baremetrics.com/blog/marketing-idea-scoring-system
What if you could put a system in place that instantly scores and prioritizes any mar...
That new feature will not save your business
https://baremetrics.com/blog/new-features-will-not-save-your-business
As a founder, you ooze optimism. It’s a necessary coping mechanism to deal...
Our 7 day launch sequence for announcing anything
https://baremetrics.com/blog/product-launch-sequence
If you launch something on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sou...
How we increased annual upgrades by 30%
When you’re building a business based on recurring revenue, what you want is predictability. The “recurring” part has a pretty strong measure of that,...
The importance of reflection: How writing monthly updates improves our business
https://baremetrics.com/blog/reflection-business-updates
It’s easy to focus on forward momentum. Looking to the future naturally has an optimis...
How to write a startup culture manifesto
When I hear the words “company culture” my gut reaction is generally to contort my face in some way that conveys “Ewwwwwwww”. It’s just one of those b...
Embiggening the Mission: We now support Recurly & Braintree
Today we’re launching the biggest update in Baremetrics history: we’re expanding our platform to support Braintree and Recurly, in addition to the Str...
How we’re fixing “unlimited” vacation
It’s a common startup benefit to have a “loose” or “unlimited” vacation policy. “Take all the time off you need!” “We don’t babysit you, take off when...
Remote Hiring: Our 5-step Interview Process
You’ve plastered your job listing on every job board and social network known to man. Now comes the fun part: sifting through the hundreds or even tho...
The Impossibility of Separating Work & Life
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...
10 common mistakes founders make
https://baremetrics.com/blog/founder-mistakes
Bless our little founder hearts. We’re eternal optimists who have great intentions paired with a p...
Why we’re changing how we calculate metrics
We just rolled out a change to Buffer’s very public revenue dashboard that resulted in a $25,000 increase in MRR. This article provides some backstory...
How we generated a $14,000 influx of cash in 7 days
When you’re building a business, cash is king. Cash lets you do things like hiring and customer acquisition, and the more of it you’ve got at any give...
How freemium nearly caused our business to implode
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 busi...
How to use customer feedback to drive your business
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 feedbac...
Maker to Manager: What a startup founder does
I’ve long considered myself a “maker”. Heck, it’s the first word in my Twitter profile, so you know it’s official. I’ve been making things for the web...
How to Deal with Competition (or Not)
As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest sources of stress you have with your startup is likely your competition. It’s easy to become really paranoid ab...
3 things we did to reduce churn by 68%
If recurring revenue is a rainbow leading to a pot of gold, then churn is the dirty leprechaun trying to keep it all from you.
Okay, so my rainb...
Build vs. Buy: How to blow $100,000 saving money
When you’re just getting started and you’re strapped for cash, you typically do all sorts of things to pinch pennies. It’s just part of surviving, and...
How to organize the daily chaos of running a startup
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...
The Startup Guide to 1-on-1's
https://baremetrics.com/blog/startup-guide-to-1-on-1
If there’s one thing I’ve found to be true over the past year and half of building this com...