Hello friends! Woho! Today marks Bootstrap.emails first newsletter anniversary as this is the 10th issue 🥳. I'm not sure how to celebrate properly though. How do you celebrate milestones for your projects?
This week's links
Direct Sales for Bootstrapped SaaS Startups: from $1,300 to $725,000 MRR Nathan Barry, founder of ConvertKit has written a great (and a bit old) article on why bootstrapped startups should focus on direct sales. Before you think, "ehhr, but that doesn't scale" go ahead and at least read the intro.
Bootstrapping a SaaS from $10k MRR to $20k MRR Jon Yongfook has created a follow up story to his previous Journey to 10K MRR. Some really good stuff in here and also very impressive work by Jon!
The rise of the one-person unicorn Christian Owens, Founder & CEO of Paddle has written about innovative investment models and how small bootstrapped businesses has grown as an alternative path to the traditional VC founded startup model.