Founders Journey

2020 has turned in to one of the most unusual years of my life, for both the obvious reasons but also for reasons I definitely wasn't expecting at the

In 2018 we launched a product called Baremetrics Intros, which essentially helped companies and investors find each other based on their actual data

tl;dr In the past 6 months I turned down multiple $3-5m offers and failed to close a $5m sale. In the past six years of Baremetrics' existence, I've

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

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

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.

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...

Since the beginning of Baremetrics, especially when we started making our data public through Open Startups, I am regularly asked "What is normal?" around

As founders, a lot of our identities get wrapped up in our companies. Certainly within our industries, but even to family and friends it’s how people know

We all need traffic. Targeted traffic to our sites that'll convert. SEO, PPC ads, organic social media posts, blogs, email newsletters, a culture

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

When you’re just getting started, everything feels like a big deal. Everything. The tinniest things can turn in to huge showstoppers that drain time and,

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...

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

I haven’t been writing much lately. Frankly, I’m a bit burned out on the marketing side of things, and traditionally “content marketing” is the only type

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...

Testimonials are crucial to any business as they provide social validation. They also provide amazing copy for your website that tends to perform much better than whatever buzzwordy tagline you...

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....

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...

You likely aren’t, and that’s okay Why are so many entrepreneurs obsessed with, and under the impression that the problem they’re solving is “changing the

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 rolling out, or a new round of funding. Or maybe they’ll mention how...

Running a company requires very few tools and services, however there are quite a few that do make things much easier and faster. We get asked regularly what tools we use for various tasks, so below...

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

I was putting together a talk this week and was feeling very reflective. I always love reading about what others have learned along their journeys. Since

“Good morning everyone, I’m going to cut to the chase: We’re running out of money and I need all of you to take a pay cut.” The team expected nothing. I