Bootstrapped

When Dave Rodenbaugh wanted to run a software business, he decided to buy an existing one. He tells me why he did this, how he chose the business, and what he did right and wrong along the way.
He also shares - painfully - his embarrassing $50K mistake.
Dave runs Recapture and is co-host of the Rogue Startups podcast.
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Creators and Guests

Host
Ed Freyfogle
Co-founder of OpenCage
Host
Steve McLeod
Founder of Feature Upvote

What is Bootstrapped?

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.