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Arvid Kahl on side projects, hobbies and making money as a founder

Indie Bites

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Introduction

Arvid Carl discusses the challenges of quitting a job to start a profitable business and the importance of not rushing into it.

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I think we were making 10, $15,000 in MRR when we chose to quit our jobs. Too many indie founders jump on every opportunity that they see to the quit our job and they say I have six months
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time to turn this into a profitable business. Probably the worst idea. Hello and welcome back to IndieBikes, the podcast, for writing your stories of fellow indie hackers in 15 minutes or less. I'm your host James McKimbin and I'm trying to make my own indie business work as a podcast producer and founder of a handmade leather wallet business. Today I'm joined again by Arvid Carl who runs the Bootstrap founder, a podcast newsletter and educational resource to help founders grow successful Bootstrap businesses. He's also written two books, zero to sold and the embedded entrepreneur. Arvid is a returning guest having previously been on the show almost three years ago to talk about his exit from feedback panda which he grew to 55k MRR with his partner Danielle. In his episode we talk about life as a creator and solopreneur, how Arvid is scratching his sass itch and how people can leave their jobs to work on their side projects. As expected with any chat with Arvid we spoke for almost an hour where we dig further into his life as a creator and explore opportunities in 2024 for indie hackers. I've loaded the full chat on the indie Bikes membership that you can get access to for $60 a year. If you're inspired by this episode and want to write a newsletter about building in public while you figure out your sass I've got just a tool for you. My long term sponsor email experts are perfect for starting out. They are focused on affordability with a very generous free plan and ease of use. So you can focus on shipping growing your audience without a distraction of surplus features. So to get started we can contact up to 2,500 subscribers without paying a penny head to emailaltspus.com or hit the link in the show notes. We kick off this conversation with Arvid talking about exploring a new sass. I've
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been thinking a lot over the last couple of weeks getting back into building sass businesses because that's where I come from.

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