How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped to a $10 Million Exit
Update: 2024-12-12
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This is how Tibo Louis-Lucas built a new startup every month... until one took off and turned into a $10 million exit.
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In this conversation we chat about:
Founder Mode
- (00:00 ) — Intro
- (01:24 ) — Being a venture-backed founder
- (02:41 ) — Learnings from early business failures
- (24:00 ) — Identifying scalable business opportunities
- (33:20 ) — Goal of getting 5 companies to $100k MRR in 3 years
- (41:35 ) — How to unlock different versions of yourself
- (43:02 ) — Identifying opportunities while building multiple companies
Growth & Scaling
- (05:14 ) — The advantage of quickly shipping
- (08:36 ) — Pros and cons of building in public
- (10:28 ) — Alternatives to building in public
- (11:24 ) — The moats that exist today
- (15:31 ) — Utilizing micro-influencers for growth
- (37:56 ) — Keeping 2-person companies at scale
- (39:18 ) — Working alongside a complementary co-founder
Product & Acquisition Strategy
- (12:55 ) — Platform risk
- (18:32 ) — How founders can learn to kill products
- (20:35 ) — Outsourcing to external developers
- (21:57 ) — Buying small products
- (25:26 ) — Deciding how much to invest into micro-acquisitions
- (27:47 ) — Buying & selling assets rather than companies
- (30:42 ) — Buying a tool to compete with the newsletter giants
- (36:46 ) — AI’s unique software enablement
- (44:08 ) — Deciding when and how to sell your company
- (48:10 ) — How to decide how and whom to sell your company to
Advice & Insights
- (49:04 ) — Founder Tips for Negotiating Deals
- (49:57 ) — Bootstrapping vs. raising VC
- (52:08 ) — The future of SaaS
- (55:58 ) — Taking a job after being a founder
- (58:21 ) — Founders don’t know when they need to quit
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