$5M revenue in 12 months with $0 funding.

Met his co-founder on Reddit.

Used his own SaaS to grow to 10,000 clients in the saturated email space!

The most unconventional BOOTSTRAPPED company in town🧵 Instantly is a cold outreach tool created by @raulkaevand, @nils100km, @rsinstantly, and Sumit (developer).

Their Clients send 5M+ emails through their software daily.

In 12 months, they went from:

Founders learn from each other.

If you're a founder, 21 people you should follow that will make Twitter an A+ experience🧵 1/ @TrungTPhan

• Hilarious
• Informative threads
• Top-tier meme game

My favorite thread:

https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1570432767032459271

I've built and sold 10+ startups over the years.

Getting the first 100 customers is where 99% of founders fail.

Here’s my guide on getting your first 100 customers and then scaling to 1,000 & beyond 🧵 In this thread, I will show you how I would implement each of these steps for a specific SaaS.

We're picking a Shopify app: Vitals (I don't know them, nor have ever spoken to them)

Vitals is an all-in-one Conversion Marketing app for Shopify stores.

From $0 to $7M ARR in 2 years with $0 funding!

They built the safest automation tool for LinkedIn.

The craziest agency-to-SaaS bootstrap story🧵 Yes, LinkedIn can be a cringe fest, but with 900M+ members across 200 countries, it's also the best channel for B2B marketing.

Expandi is a LinkedIn automation tool created by @SmuldersStefan and @GlennExpandi

They currently serve 12K+ customers and make $7M per year.

I run a private network of high-growth founders...

What has become super obvious is that they learn more from one another than any book, course, or mentor.

Here are 9 startup stories that will teach you 10X more than any business school 👇 • Alex Tew founder of @calm and the creator of Million Dollar Homepage

Key lesson: The power of a simple idea + quick execution

Key insight: When you solve a problem that you face, you know the problem better than anyone.

https://twitter.com/jspeiser/status/1640368374713839616

From 0 to $1.2M ARR in 6 months & then 3X in a 1 year

5 founders bootstrapped their SaaS getting 60K beta signups

Hotjar's epic 0 to 1 journey🧵 Today, they're doing $40M+ ARR

Used by giants like Nintendo, Hubspot, Adobe, and Panasonic.

All while being 100% remote with 170 employees across 33 countries.

$2M revenue in 24 months with $0 funding

Competing with BILLION-dollar tools like Slack & MS Teams.

The coolest BOOTSTRAPPED company in town 🧵 Missive is the ultimate team communication app, created by the talented trio of @plehoux, @rafbm, and @EtienneLem.

These guys have a whole arsenal of successful projects under their belt, like Lean Ticket, Heliom, and Conference Badge.

Missive was the one that took off.

A $55k domain turned into a $500M company.

$100M revenue, 100M+ users, and 400+ remote employees.

The crazy growth story of Chess .com 🧵 Erik Allebest and Jay Severson founded Chess .com in 2005.

18 years later –

• ~$100M in annual revenue
• 280M+ monthly website visits
• 250k+ new accounts every day
• 10M games played every day

How did this all begin 👇

In 2020, these guys built the world's first virtual Adtech platform.

In 2021, they sold it for $17.5M

They went from idea to selling the company in only 10 months during the lockdown.

The most insane 0 → 1 story 🧵 Meet Ben Khakshoor and Sam Drozdov, the founders of Bloxbiz, an advertising platform for the $28B online gaming platform Roblox.

Bloxbiz's ad product hits 75M monthly active players on Roblox.

Bloxbiz dominates the Roblox ad market - because there's no competition.

From a YouTuber to making $230M in online car auctions.

This guy is the most-watched car reviewer in the US with 5.5M+ subscribers.

He is a columnist, an author and now an entrepreneur.

The story of the most unconventional automotive guru 🧵 Meet Doug DeMuro, an automotive columnist, author, and YouTuber.

As the author of the bestselling book "Bumper to Bumper" and a YouTube channel with 2B+ views, he is "the guy" of the automotive world.

He built an audience and then monetized it.

And it all started in 2010 👇

Facebook killed my startup.

I lost $100M and had to let go 100 employees.

One of the darkest periods of my startup journey.

what happened...🧵 In 2014, I started LittleThings, a feel-good entertainment company.

By 2018, it was thriving.

- On track to make $75m+ year
- Employed 110 creative talents
- Had a promising OTT/Roku streaming channel

Heck, we even outpaced Buzzfeed, ABC, CNN, HuffPo, and Fox!

This kid made $1M+ in just 4 months by selling pixels on a website.

7 years later he built a $2B meditation company.

The guy you probably know, the story you don't 👇 Meet Alex Tew built 'The Million Dollar Homepage' - a static website with 1M pixels of advertising space.

Within just 30 days of launch, Alex had pocketed $250k and was getting 65k visits a day.

By October 2005, the website had over 1.4k advertisers.

GPT-4 can build you an iPhone app, a functioning site from a hand-written note, and even prepare your taxes.

It cleared the BAR Exam, GRE, LSAT, & every other competitive exam better than most of us.

Here's everything that's happening 🧵 It's just been 48 hours & people are going wild

- This guy designed a logo with it.

https://twitter.com/jacksonfall/status/1636114211754369032?s=20

He took $150K in credit card debt to sell UGLY fruits and vegetables.

Today, his company is worth $2B!

The crazy story of Misfits Market and its founder @abhiramesh8 In 2020, Misfits Market shipped a massive 77 million pounds of food to more than 400,000 households across the US!

What started as a 700 sq. ft. storage space, soon became a 10,000 sq. ft. within ONE YEAR.

And today, this company is valued at a mind-blowing $2B!

I built a DTC brand (PetFlow) to $70m/yr with Google Ads.

Here's how I did it 👇 Here's the plan:

1. Pre-requisites
2. Target Audience
3. Keyword research
4. Creating killer Ad Copy
5. Google Shopping Ads
6. How to run Google Ads
7. Bonus Points

The fastest way to $100k is through a ChatGPT-powered agency

Here's my 8-step process 👇 Step 1 - Make a list of all the business-relevant skills you have

No income, race, or geography privilege here.

Alakh Pandey built a $1 BILLION startup on YouTube from a small impoverished village.

Here's his underdog story: In <2 years, Physics Wallah hired 1,900 employees, 500 of which are teachers.

They now have 5.2 million users on the app with a 4.7 rating.

We all know gambling is rigged.

But this guy found a way to hack the game & win $75m.

His motto - "Heads I WIN, tails I WIN BIG"

Let me show you how 👇 Jim McIngvale (Mack) owns a furniture business & places LARGE sports bets with his store's revenue.

When a customer purchases anything $3k+, a night before he places the game, they get ALL their money back - if he wins.

If Mack loses, he gets more sales.

Win-Win

I built a $70M subscription DTC brand (petflow.com)

If I had to do it again, here's the fastest way to at least $50K/month 👇 Lets make this super clear/actionable:

1. Choose a product to sell
2. Make a website
3. Advertise and take orders before selling
4. Find someone to make your product
5. Get packaging ready
6. Setup logistics

Let's go!

An immigrant went from selling fruits to building the 2nd largest bank in the US with assets over $3.2 TRILLION dollars.

He is also responsible for financing the Golden Gate Bridge & the early success of Disney

The story of A.P. Giannini, the definition of the American Dream 👇 In the 1870s, the Giannini family moved to California from a small village in Italy. After his father’s abrupt death & his mother’s remarriage, Giannini left school & went to work for his stepfather; at the age of 12.

Soon after, he got bored & decided to start his own business.

How this guy lost $30 Billion in <48 hours.

A meltdown unlike any other...🧵 In just 2 days, his company's stock process plunged 20% & he fell from third to seventh place on the Forbes Rich List.