Episodes 243
Avg. Duration 42m
Activity Sporadic
Since Mar 2013
Latest Episode Nov 2025

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About This Podcast

This is the archive of Bootstrapped.fm. A seminal Bootstrapper-oriented podcast started in 2013 by Ian Landsman and Andrey Butov. The first iteration ran for 104 episodes. In 2019, Steve McLeod took over for another 139 episodes. We've set this podcast to release order so you can experience it as it was initially presented.

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#243: The End

Nov 11, 2025 2m

The time has come to finally put this mostly abandoned podcast to rest. It's kind of a sad day for me but it is time to do this.Thank you listeners, thank you to Ian Landsman and Andrey Butov who…

#242: Boredeom

Jul 16, 2025 11m

When you run your own little software company, be it a SaaS or old school downloadable software, and you've been doing it for several years, and you've got through the major initial challenges that…

#241: Podcasting

May 14, 2025 15m

In this episode, I talk about how I'm using podcasting as a business tool. Not as a guest, not to promote my product, not as an advertiser, but as a way to build up and strengthen my network amongst…

#240: Why I repositioned Feature Upvote to the video game industry

Apr 21, 2025 18m

I want to tell you what's happening with my product, Feature Upvote, over the last year or so. I've dramatically changed the positioning, to be a feedback management platform for the video games…

#239: Our Business Heroes with The Gross Profit Podcast

Mar 01, 2024 38m

I was recently a guest on The Gross Profit podcast, hosted by James Kennedy. In that interview, James and I talked about our business heros, and well, it seemed to me that the conversation was a…

#238: B2B SaaS design with Nathan Powell

Jun 23, 2023 33m

I chat with Nathan Powell, freelance product designer whose work these days is mainly with B2B SaaS. We chat about how developer founders can go about improving their app's UX and general…

#237: Michael Koper, founder of Nusii

Mar 12, 2023 25m

I chat with Michael Koper, founder of Nusii. We talk about what it's like when your product spends several years at a revenue plateau.Mentioned in this episode:Michael's company, NusiiMichael on…

#236: Steve McLeod, founder of Feature Upvote

Dec 02, 2022 33m

I'm the guest on my own podcast! A year ago, Ben Pages joined my company, Feature Upvote, to be our marketing manager. Ben had questions about the early days of Feature Upvote, and how this product…

#235: Maeva Cifuentes, founder of Flying Cat Marketing

Nov 18, 2022 32m

I chat with Maeva Cifuentes, founder and CEO of Flying Cat Marketing, an SEO and content marketing agency. We discuss Maeva's journey from freelance translator to CEO of a successful marketing…

#234: Ed's marketing catchup

Oct 28, 2022 32m

My frequent guest co-host Ed Freyfogle tells us about his recent marketing endeavours, including one that was inspired by April Dunford's "toilet talk". Toilet talk, you ask? All will be revealing…

#233: Running a lifestyle business and proud of it

Oct 14, 2022 29m

We have two guests interviewing each other! I invited two friends of the podcast, Andy Brice, and Robin Warren, to chat with each other about what it's like running a lifestyle business in 2022…

#232: Running a WordPress agency, with Marc Jenkins of 16by9

Sep 30, 2022 28m

I chat with Marc Jenkins, founder of 16by9, a small web studio that focuses on building WordPress sites. Marc and I talk about what its like to start and build up this type of company, and how, with…

#231: Bad support loses customers, and payment failures

Sep 16, 2022 34m

I catch up with my frequent co-host, Ed Freyfogle, after a long summer break. Amongst other topics, we discuss how bad customer support will lose you customers. We also talk about yet more payment…

#230: Introducing Pushing to Production

Aug 19, 2022 33m

Something a bit different in this episode: we're playing an episode of the new Pushing to Production podcast, where Ed Freyfogle was the guest. It's a conversation about the technical stack Ed's…

#229: Saying no to a generous acquisition offer, with Simon Bennett of SnapShooter

Aug 05, 2022 31m

Simon Bennett, founder of SnapShooter, returns to the show. We chat about a generous acquisition offer Simon recently received for his company - and why he ultimately decided to not to be acquired.…

#228: How to get backlinks (without feeling dirty)

Jul 15, 2022 23m

An effective content strategy for your product requires getting backlinks. In this episode, I share 9 strategies I use for getting backlinks for my product's website - without doing things that make…

#227: Joining TinySeed with Nick Swan of SEOTesting.com

Jul 01, 2022 35m

I chat with Nick Swan from SEOTesting.com. We discuss how Nick took on a co-founder for his already-established business, why Nick decided to no longer be a 1-person show, and most importantly how…

#226: Sponsoring events, podcasts, and newsletters with Peldi @ Balsamiq

Jun 17, 2022 33m

We are joined by a good friend of the podcast, Peldi Guilizzoni,  to discuss how to go about sponsoring events, newsletters, and podcasts to promote your product. In particular we talk about creative…

#225: BoS Europe 2022 retrospective

Jun 03, 2022 28m

I first recorded this episode for the Business of Software podcast. I chat about the experience of attending the recent Business of Software Europe in-person event, together with Joe Leech, who was a…

#224: Recalibrating prices, and Postmark got acquired

May 20, 2022 31m

Ed and I talk about how currency fluctuations are affecting our pricing. And we give our opinion on the recent acquisition of Postmark, a bootstrapping success story, by ActiveCampaign.A brief note…

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Bootstrapped has published 243 episodes since March 2013, covering topics in Business, Technology.

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