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What I learned from 56 $250k+ businesses
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Building a Company to Not Get Rich
A software startup as a non-profit. How Ghost grew from $0 to $6.2 million.
Building an agency with only relationships
What if you built an agency based on only relationships? No content strategy. No SEO. No Ads. Learn how Brandi Bernoskie built Alchemy & Aim.
A Baby's Sleep Problem Led to a $3.5M Business
Liz Hilton couldn't sell her baby sleep product through retail or Amazon - until one TikTok video changed everything.
Why This Founder Said NO to Easy VC Money
When everyone was raising "free money" during the 2020 COVID boom, this founder did the opposite
She Got Paid for Her MBA Instead
Instead of paying for an MBA, Layla Pomper treated her business as her education and got paid $250,000 to learn while building ProcessDriven from an overqualified virtual assistant into a YouTube-powered operations consulting company.
Sleeping in Boats Led to This $300k Studio
How Kylen Blom turned a college pitch competition into sleeping in boats around the Great Lakes and eventually building a $300k creative studio in Holland, MI.
NASA Writer to $1M Founder
From NASA writer to $1M web agency founder through mindset shifts and putting service before sales.
They Made $1 Million+ Going Against Google
Two bootstrapped founders proved that sometimes the best way to compete with a tech giant is to be everything they're not - simple, privacy-focused, and not free.
The metrics of a successful online community
If you’re building your own online community, it’s really tricky to figure out what metrics to use for success. Thankfully, Circle provides some answers with their 2024 Community Benchmark Report
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My favorite online community platform
Community businesses are becoming a hot trend. Here is Matt's favorite online community platform.