TechCrunch vs Bootstrap Companies

The speaker discusses the debate between TechCrunch and the coverage of VC-backed companies versus bootstrap companies, emphasizing the underserved segment of the startup ecosystem that bootstrap companies represent. They also explain their motivation for providing coverage to bootstrap companies and challenging the notion of success in entrepreneurship.

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In this MI Rewind Episode, Robert Leonard chats with Andrew Gazdecki about what Microacquire is, how he built it, and what his goal is with this company; how he thinks about smaller, bootstrapped companies versus large, venture-backed ones that are trying to be worth a billion dollars; why VC-backed companies generally get all the news coverage and what Andrew is doing to change this, and much, much more!

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

02:29 - What the first steps are to getting a new business off the ground.

32:04 - Why having a great product is not enough in today’s world and why relying on this is a losing strategy.

32:04 - How someone with a faulty sales process can fix it.

32:04 - How to focus on one thing as an entrepreneur and how to determine what that one thing should be.

52:15 - What it means to “build in public” and why Andrew has chosen to go this route.

And much, much more!

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