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Starting and Sustaining

by redguava on 3/18/13, 11:13 AM with 25 comments

  • by bdunn on 3/18/13, 11:25 AM

    This is the first book in a very, very long time that I've really looked forward to.

    Garrett's successfully bootstrapped a SaaS that now sustains him and his family, and he's taken everything he's learned over the last few years and condensed it into a 50k word guidebook.

    I read an early draft and was blown away. And the spreadsheet it comes with is easily worth the sticker price (and then some.)

  • by cristianpascu on 3/18/13, 11:34 AM

    I looked forward to this book. Here's what puts me off for now. One price option only. I want to read the book. I'm not the interested in the spreadsheets and other stuff. Am I gonna pay $79USD for a book? No.

    Table of content is missing. I don't really know what's inside. Makes me nervous. The money back guarantee is not that appealing although it should set some of the stress aside.

    Hopefully these will be fixed quickly.

  • by madrobby on 3/18/13, 1:05 PM

    I'm the co-founder of a successful SaaS (http://letsfreckle.com/) and would easily have paid $300 for the spreadsheet alone.

    I wish I had had the spreadsheet back when we started. Garrett seriously got your back on the finances of a bootstrapped SaaS.

  • by JohnHammersley on 3/18/13, 3:02 PM

    Just bought a copy - I remember reading through the slides and thought there was a lot of good stuff there.

    Whilst $79 may seem a lot for a pdf and a spreadsheet, it's really very little to pay for good advice! There really is no way to learn other than to do it and make your own mistakes on the way, but having something like this to hand should help you recover quicker, and if you avoid a few pitfalls because of it, all the better :-)

  • by jkulmala on 3/20/13, 12:28 PM

    I just finished reading this and it's a goldmine of information.

    If anything, it's priced too low ;)

    The best part for me was the focus on bootstrapping costs and the lists of things to take into account when budgeting.

  • by scottmagdalein on 3/18/13, 1:01 PM

    Garrett, I'm buying your book. Definitely.

    Question: How long did it take you to write the book and build the spreadsheets? I don't mean hours. I mean, from the day you started to the day you said "ok, done", how long was that?

  • by omervk on 3/18/13, 1:17 PM

    Is there going to also be a Kindle (or any other e-Reader) version?

  • by tcdowney on 3/18/13, 2:47 PM

    How long will the special launch pricing be available?