Founder’s Journey: Building a Startup from the Ground Up

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 was the world of asset sales and stock sales.

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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 things I learned from this little failure.

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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 work.

https://baremetrics.com/blog/sunsetting-intro…

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 through the night. I can't pinpoint it to any one sp…

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 take a pay cut while we figured out how to get prof…

Where to publish something has becoming a difficult decision for a lot of businesses. You read so many stories about using various channels to distribute content and grow traffic, it's hard to know w…

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 some points in a company’s lifecycle, this makes sen…

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 of extremes, and it wore me down.

Every single f…

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, slowly trudging your way up the hill in the muck. T…

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 creating something out of nothing. It’s even harder when…

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 great”. They’ll talk about some new feature they’re rollin…

https://blog.baremetrics.com/startups-keep-it-classy-5bba13285cc6

Building a business makes relatively sane humans do some insane things. The past 10 years have been the modern day gold rush for tech…

https://blog.baremetrics.com/the-startup-echo-chamber-is-making-you-deaf-771eec220181

Being an entrepreneur is a lonely place, especially if you’re the founder/CEO. Sure, you may have co-founders, bu…

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. No, we’re not shutting down Baremetrics. Very much the…

https://baremetrics.com/blog/self-serve-cancellations-saved-our-business

There may be no topic in the world of business that spurs such impassioned responses than self-serve versus manual cancellatio…

https://baremetrics.com/blog/feature-framework

“What feature should we build next?” Ain’t that the question of the year? While that next feature won’t save your business, it’s still important to actu…

https://baremetrics.com/blog/marketing-idea-scoring-system

What if you could put a system in place that instantly scores and prioritizes any marketing idea you had? You could focus in on exactly the …