Bootstrapping a paid community to 100+ paying members

Charlie Ward is the founder of Ramen Club - a private community of 300+ bootstrapped SaaS entrepreneurs that gives them the support and education to grow their business.

In this interview, Charlie shares the origin story of Ramen Club, how he organises the masterminds, how he organises in-person meetups in different cities of the world and more.

Resources:

• Curated Connections (our tool to connect your community members) - https://curatedconnections.io/

• Get Powerup (Charlie’s Slack app for creating leaderboards) - https://www.ramenclub.so/studio-ramen/powerup-app

• Ramen Club - https://www.ramenclub.so/

• Charlie’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/charlierward/

• Nityesh’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/nityeshaga/

Chapters:

0:00 Intro 02:13 What's Ramen Club 10:58 First 10 customers 15:04 Next 100 customers 17:52 Building tools for marketing 21:21 Event recordings to podcast 26:36 Organising masterminds 37:15 Organising local meetups 46:27 Charlie's engagement strategy 50:22 Favourite book on community 52:45 His accountability tool for communities