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How This Business Went From Losing $20,000 to Earning $1 Million in Just Two Years

Buffer Resources

While out in the fields, she started thinking about passive income, and it occurred to her that she could teach grant writing online. Book sales: We make some money from this, but it’s more a marketing and authority building tool for the Collective. But in the first year, she made only $2,000.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. He’s an incredible founder, person and a very, very dear friend, and changing the way SaaS as an industry will work and be structured in the future. Harry Stebbings of Stride.VC