Bootstrapping a paid community to 100+ paying members

Charlie Ward is the founder of Ramen Club - a private community of 300+ bootstrapped SaaS entrepreneurs that gives them the support and education to grow their business.

In this interview, Charlie shares the origin story of Ramen Club, how he organises the masterminds, how he organises in-person meetups in different cities of the world and more.

Resources:

• Curated Connections (our tool to connect your community members) - https://curatedconnections.io/

• Get Powerup (Charlie’s Slack app for creating leaderboards) - https://www.ramenclub.so/studio-ramen/powerup-app

• Ramen Club - https://www.ramenclub.so/

• Charlie’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/charlierward/

• Nityesh’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/nityeshaga/

Chapters:

0:00 Intro
02:13 What's Ramen Club
10:58 First 10 customers
15:04 Next 100 customers
17:52 Building tools for marketing
21:21 Event recordings to podcast
26:36 Organising masterminds
37:15 Organising local meetups
46:27 Charlie's engagement strategy
50:22 Favourite book on community
52:45 His accountability tool for communities