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May 14-15 - #buildinpublic weekend update
✅ progress on our first newsletter
✅🚀 new "Solo Business" signup (paying!!)
✅ testing new UI
✅ spent time on our @SaaSAcademy Growth Map
🎯 update Lead Magnet
🎯 write followup funnel emails
✅ researched competitor's sales funnels
✅ progress on our first newsletter
✅🚀 new "Solo Business" signup (paying!!)
✅ testing new UI
✅ spent time on our @SaaSAcademy Growth Map
🎯 update Lead Magnet
🎯 write followup funnel emails
✅ researched competitor's sales funnels
May 13 - #buildinpublic video update - UI/UX work-in-progress
✅ v1 of new UI is live and testing
✅ 5-star marketing day. Don't underestimate LI direct outreach
🎯 stable release by end of May
🎯 add "early access" CTA to website
🎯 book flights and AirBnB for @CollisionHQ
✅ v1 of new UI is live and testing
✅ 5-star marketing day. Don't underestimate LI direct outreach
🎯 stable release by end of May
🎯 add "early access" CTA to website
🎯 book flights and AirBnB for @CollisionHQ
May 12 #buildinpublic update (no video today)
✅ traction with a venture firm that grows B2B companies; demo booked
✅ 5 LinkedIn outbound wins
✅ learning Figma
✅ progress on May newsletter
✅ new case study lined up
✅ Contract Event now live
😩 UI refactor behind schedule
✅ traction with a venture firm that grows B2B companies; demo booked
✅ 5 LinkedIn outbound wins
✅ learning Figma
✅ progress on May newsletter
✅ new case study lined up
✅ Contract Event now live
😩 UI refactor behind schedule
May 11 - #buildinpublic update (no video today)
✅ landed a demo call with a huge Fractional CFO firm (750+ CFOs)
✅ early adopter CFO pitching us to clients
✅ new intern kicking butt
😩 behind on automating my sales funnel
🎯 craft our first monthly email update
💰 $200 MRR
✅ landed a demo call with a huge Fractional CFO firm (750+ CFOs)
✅ early adopter CFO pitching us to clients
✅ new intern kicking butt
😩 behind on automating my sales funnel
🎯 craft our first monthly email update
💰 $200 MRR
May 10 - lightning #buildinpublic video update -
The Contract Event.
✅ testing Contract Event - ability to model start, end, milestones, payment terms
✅ UI updates coming along
😩 marketing
😩 chasing followups
😩 still nervous about runway
😩 building plan for Collision
The Contract Event.
✅ testing Contract Event - ability to model start, end, milestones, payment terms
✅ UI updates coming along
😩 marketing
😩 chasing followups
😩 still nervous about runway
😩 building plan for Collision
May 6 - lightning #buildinpublic video update -
Been a long week.
✅ team cranked through a lot of bug fixes and polishing up new features
✅ awesome feedback from an early adopter
😩 tired. See-saw of doubts and stumbles and second guessing the space and revenue potential.
Been a long week.
✅ team cranked through a lot of bug fixes and polishing up new features
✅ awesome feedback from an early adopter
😩 tired. See-saw of doubts and stumbles and second guessing the space and revenue potential.
May 5 - lightning #buildinpublic update - @CollisionHQ prep and Spreadsheet Parity.
✅ have a 1:1 profit and loss match between whatifi and a pilot project user's spreadsheet!!
✅ bug fixes for Customer Transfer Event
✅ hit deadlines for Collision
✅ have a 1:1 profit and loss match between whatifi and a pilot project user's spreadsheet!!
✅ bug fixes for Customer Transfer Event
✅ hit deadlines for Collision
May 5 - lightning #buildinpublic update - @CollisionHQ prep and Spreadsheet Parity.
✅ have a 1:1 profit and loss match between whatifi and a pilot project user's spreadsheet!!
✅ bug fixes for Customer Transfer Event
✅ hit deadlines for Collision
loom.com/share/0973c42d…
✅ have a 1:1 profit and loss match between whatifi and a pilot project user's spreadsheet!!
✅ bug fixes for Customer Transfer Event
✅ hit deadlines for Collision
loom.com/share/0973c42d…
May 4 - lightning #buildinpublic update - Overrides - wip - a CFO can easily override edits to financial data
✅ rapidly populate forecast data with a pattern
✅ override select months on the fly. Super fast.
🚩 v2 - tie into Google Sheets and automatically link to external data
✅ rapidly populate forecast data with a pattern
✅ override select months on the fly. Super fast.
🚩 v2 - tie into Google Sheets and automatically link to external data
Running a small marketing test on Facebook/Instagram. Sharing the metrics.
🚀 target audience is startups and SaaS companies
🚀 have had one person signup on main webpage for updates
🚀 $1.30 CPC and $37.64 CAC for the non-paying lead
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🚀 target audience is startups and SaaS companies
🚀 have had one person signup on main webpage for updates
🚀 $1.30 CPC and $37.64 CAC for the non-paying lead
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Today's lighting #buildinpublic video - our work-in-progress KPI Event.
✅ measure multiple metrics for multiple "what if" scenarios
✅ test different Growth and Churn rates on the fly
🚩 missing icons, graph weirdness. Only have LTV and ARPU so far.
✅ measure multiple metrics for multiple "what if" scenarios
✅ test different Growth and Churn rates on the fly
🚩 missing icons, graph weirdness. Only have LTV and ARPU so far.
Sparking back up my #buildinpublic daily updates:
✅ onboarded new comp-sci co-op student (up to 3)
✅ scheduled call with CEO of largest Fractional CFO firm in Canada
✅ testing KPI Event and Customer Transfer Event (Conversion funnels)
🚩 burning cash fast
🚩 MRR minimal
✅ onboarded new comp-sci co-op student (up to 3)
✅ scheduled call with CEO of largest Fractional CFO firm in Canada
✅ testing KPI Event and Customer Transfer Event (Conversion funnels)
🚩 burning cash fast
🚩 MRR minimal
Testing a new marketing campaign - less about features and more about posing questions that other Founders will resonate with. Any thoughts? Too stock photo? Too busy? Or do these communicate well?
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Sh*t just got real. One of our beta users just added us to their Slack channel.
Here goes the whole "things that don't scale" phase of our customer onboarding journey.
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Here goes the whole "things that don't scale" phase of our customer onboarding journey.
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We got featured on @BetaList - here are the stats
• 137 unique visits to our main website
• 4 upvotes
• 13 conversions (signed up for a Lead Magnet or Email updates)
• 2 demo requests
• made it to the trending page for 2 days
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• 137 unique visits to our main website
• 4 upvotes
• 13 conversions (signed up for a Lead Magnet or Email updates)
• 2 demo requests
• made it to the trending page for 2 days
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Dog fooded our own application to map out "what if" scenarios for releasing whatifi on @AppSumo
Need to finish the UI update but a surge of new users, even at a discount, would help with our cash flow position.
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Need to finish the UI update but a surge of new users, even at a discount, would help with our cash flow position.
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Curious how other Founders manage expectations with their spouses when building a startup?
At times, especially as a bootstrap startup, this feels like the hardest part!
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At times, especially as a bootstrap startup, this feels like the hardest part!
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A friend of mine is building software for Hospital ERs - qiiq.health
Testing our tech to build a startup financial model for him to calculate runway and funding needs - to pitch to investors.
loom.com/share/b8d1c946…
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Testing our tech to build a startup financial model for him to calculate runway and funding needs - to pitch to investors.
loom.com/share/b8d1c946…
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Big aha moment here from @danmartell on finding early adopters - youtu.be/weR5DSYThGc
Looking for signals and patterns within a company or organization that indicate that they are open to your new technology or innovation - instead of chasing every lead.
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Looking for signals and patterns within a company or organization that indicate that they are open to your new technology or innovation - instead of chasing every lead.
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