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Mike McDerment
From Parents Basement to $50M Revenue: The FreshBooks Story
Mike McDerment accidentally saved over an invoice and built FreshBooks to solve his own pain, bootstrapping for 3.5 years from his parents basement to reach $50M+ in annual revenue.
$10K MRR в 3 years·Команда
SaaSФинансы🇨🇦 CA
Justin Duke
Building a Successful Newsletter Business by Building Less
Justin Duke built Buttondown as a side project at Stripe into a profitable business with half a dozen employees - without raising VC.
$10K MRR в 5 years·Соло
SaaSСоздание контента🇺🇸 US
Frederic Lalonde
How Hopper Pivoted from Blog Aggregator to $1B+ Travel App
Frederic Lalonde built Hopper through a scary pivot - from travel blog aggregator to AI-powered booking app with $1B+ in sales.
$100K ARR в 10 years·Команда
Мобильное приложениеПутешествия🇨🇦 CA
Andy Puddicombe & Richard Pierson
From Buddhist Monk to $3B Meditation Empire: The Headspace Story
Andy Puddicombe spent 10 years as a Buddhist monk before co-founding Headspace, now valued at over $3 billion.
$100K ARR в 3 years·Команда
Мобильное приложениеЗдоровье и благополучие🇬🇧 GB
Dylan Field & Evan Wallace
How Two College Friends Bet Everything on the Browser and Built a $20B Design Tool
Dylan Field and Evan Wallace launched Figma in 2016 after betting that web technology would eventually replace desktop apps.
$100K ARR в 4 years·Команда
SaaSДизайн🇺🇸 US
Clark Valberg & Ben Nadel
From Agency Side Project to Every Fortune 100 Company: The InVision Story
Clark Valberg built InVision as an internal tool for his agency, then watched it become used by every Fortune 100 company.
$100K ARR в 3 years·Команда
SaaSДизайн🇺🇸 US
Pieter Omvlee
Nine Years of Side Project to Design Tool That Challenged Adobe: The Sketch Story
Pieter Omvlee started Sketch in college, took 9 years to ship it, and built the tool that dethroned Photoshop for UI design.
$100K ARR в 9 years·Соло
SaaSДизайн🇳🇱 NL
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Shahed Khan
How 9 Months of Failure and 2 Pivots Led to a $975M Exit
Shahed Khan and his co-founders pivoted twice before landing on Loom. The async video platform was acquired by Atlassian for $975 million.
$100K ARR в 3 years·Команда
SaaSПродуктивность🇺🇸 US
CB
Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie
Reinventing Media Economics: How Substack Empowered Independent Writers
When Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie started Substack, everyone said nobody would pay for internet content. They proved the skeptics wrong.
$100K ARR в 2 years·Команда
SaaSСоздание контента🇺🇸 US
Spencer Fry
How a bootstrapped portfolio platform grew to $55K MRR and a life-changing exit
Built the first online portfolio platform for designers in 2005. Bootstrapped to $55K MRR, then sold to private equity.
$100K ARR в 2 years·Команда
SaaSДизайн🇺🇸 US
AB
Andy Beohar
Tech Employee Quits to Build $275K MRR Marketing Agency
Andy left his tech job in 2014 and bootstrapped SevenAtoms to $275K MRR with a 90% client retention rate.
$100K ARR в 5 years·Соло
Агентство / УслугиМаркетинг🇺🇸 US
Hamish McKenzie
Newsletter Platform Co-Founder Gets First Publisher, $100K+ Revenue Day One
Substack found the perfect first customer in Bill Bishop, who generated $100K+ in revenue on his first day going paid.
$100K ARR в 6 months·Команда
SaaSСоздание контента🇺🇸 US
LB
Lukas Böhler
From running an agency to $10K MRR with a bug reporting tool in 1 year
Welcome to our journey! We launched BugBattle (now Gleap) and reached $10,000 in MRR exactly one year later - much longer than we initially thought....
$10K MRR в 1 year·Команда
SaaSИнструменты для разработчиков🇦🇹 AT
Sebastian Röhl
German Developer Reaches $10K MRR After 2.5 Years with Habit App
I'm a 29-year-old software engineer from Germany who left my full-time job to dedicate one year to building my own projects. The Grind My MRR gr...
$10K MRR в 2 years·Соло
Мобильное приложениеПродуктивность🇺🇸 US
Sarah Hum
Ex-Facebook Designers Build User Feedback Tool to $1M ARR
Sarah studied graphic design and worked as a product designer at Facebook. There she met her co-founder Andrew. Community First They started wit...
$100K ARR в 3 years·Команда
SaaSИнструменты для разработчиков🇺🇸 US
Justin Duke
Built newsletter tool while at Stripe, grew to $392K/year solo
I built Buttondown as a side project while working at Stripe. 5-10% month-over-month growth for years led to $392K/year. Side Project First I sc...
$10K MRR в 2 years·Соло
SaaSМаркетинг🇺🇸 US
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