Narrated by Derek Botten, Zero to Sold by Arvid Kahl has a runtime of 10 hrs 48 mins on Audible.
Publisher’s Summary
Zero to Sold is a comprehensive and actionable guide through the four stages of a bootstrapped business: Preparation, Survival, Stability, and Growth.
From your first idea to successfully selling your business for life-changing amounts of money, this book will help you become a world-class entrepreneur. By focusing on your niche audience, finding their critical problem, and solving it with a product that your customers can’t resist to pay for, you will learn how to create a recurring revenue engine that will make you financially independent.
It’s easy to build software products. The hard part is turning them into viable businesses that stand the test of time. If you want to build a business that survives, you have to know what challenges you will encounter. Zero to Sold tells the story of a sustainable, bootstrapped software business that grew to thousands of customers before it was acquired.
Arvid Kahl is a software engineer turned entrepreneur who has accomplished just that. He co-founded and grew an online teacher productivity SaaS business called FeedbackPanda to $55,000 Monthly Recurring Revenue with his partner Danielle Simpson. They sold the business for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, just two years after founding the business. Arvid writes on The Bootstrapped Founder blog.
In Zero to Sold, Arvid shares his experiences, learnings, and insights from building a Software-as-a-Service business from start to finish. He shows what worked and what didn’t work. If you want to build your own bootstrapped business and stay sane while doing it, Zero to Sold will be your guide.
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Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Derek Botten
- Length: 10 hrs 48 mins
- Publisher: Arvid Kahl
- Release year: 2021
- Audible category: Business & Careers / Business Development & Entrepreneurship / Entrepreneurship
Listener Ratings
Zero to Sold holds an average listener rating of 4.6/5 from 47 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.5/5
- Story: 4.4/5
- 5-star ratings: 81% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “Indpirative”
Amazing story about how you can build a profitable business from nothing without external investment.— Audible customer, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Appreciated the Author’s Personal Experience”
Great walkthrough of the process of building and selling a bootstrapped internet business. Arvid’s personal experience makes the book much more authoritative and interesting.— Adam, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Read and then again “
Great book for beginners and advanced builders. The only thing I wish there would more info on marketing and sales.— Audible customer, Audible listener
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