Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income.
Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick
Sam King is the founder of Flick, a tool for managing and growing your social media, doing over $3.5m ARR fully bootstrapped. Sam has taken a unique path into bootstrapping, first being a YouTuber, then running an agency before flipping it into a SaaS with Flick. There is an hour long extended version of this show available on the Indie Bites membership, head to indiebites.com/membership to sub.
What we covered in this episode:
- Starting out as a YouTuber
- Pivoting from YouTuber to starting an agency
- Pivoting the agency to start a SaaS
- Marketing Sam used to grow Flick
- Affiliate marketing
- Building an MVP
- Hiring challenges
Recommendations
- Book: Shoe Dog
- Podcast: Diary of a CEO
- Indie Hacker: Baretto
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