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Founder Kyle

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📖 Christian founder 🚀 Sold my bootstrapped startup to @DuckDuckGo 👪 3 kids (7 and under) ✉️ I love meeting cool people building cool things

Blacksburg, VA

Joined April 2012

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@FounderKyle

Founder Kyle

22 days

I'm excited that I can finally share that my last startup, Removaly, was acquired by @DuckDuckGo ! 🎉 -- it was also their first ever acquisition 🙌 What a whirlwind of emotions. It’s been wild having something acquired that started out as a small bootstrapped side project,…

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@FounderKyle

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2 years

Your competition isn't killing your startup... your own lack of execution is.

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2 years

"If you build it, they will come" does not apply to startups. Please remember to market your startup.

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2 years

Building a startup is not about money, power, or fame. It's about the opportunity to build something from scratch and having an impact on the world. 💪

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2 years

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Launch your startup already! |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_

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@FounderKyle

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10 days

Anyone building a side project to try to escape the 9-5? Post it here and I'll give you some quick feedback! 👇

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3 years

A "soft launch" is the best way to launch your startup. There's no point in waiting around until you have a "polished" product (your users probably won't see a difference anyway). Launch sooner and continue to improve day by day. That's the way to do it.

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3 years

Your SaaS startup doesn't have to start with a product. It could start with a Twitter account. 👀

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@FounderKyle

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2 years

Finding a co-founder is hard. I'm curious, how'd you find yours? 👇

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8 months

Unpopular opinion: No-code businesses are not scalable.

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1 year

Anytime you see an article with a title like, "I'm 24 and I make $300k/year from my Amazon side hustle", you can skip right over it and remind yourself that those stories aren't real.

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: It's easier to go from $1k-$100k than from $0-$1k.

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2 years

On a scale of 0-7, how many days a week are you up late working on your startup? 👇👀

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@FounderKyle

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2 years

Mad respect to the parent-founders out there... that's on another level of entrepreneurship 👨‍👩‍👧

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@FounderKyle

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2 years

What does your startup do? If you can’t explain it to a 10-year-old, your explanation is probably too complicated.

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@FounderKyle

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4 months

Entrepreneurship is just creating solutions to problems. That's it.

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2 years

If you're a "consultant for startups" yet you haven't created a successful startup yourself, I'm not sure that you should be a startup consultant...

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2 years

If you are a startup founder with kids I have mad respect for you. I have three kids 5 and under over here 😅 If you have any tips on building a startup with a family, I'll take them 👇

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@FounderKyle

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: Entrepreneurship can't be taught in a classroom.

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2 years

What's your best advice for a new startup with 2 co-founders? 👇

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2 years

Raised 100k: *Journalists flocking to cover story* Bootstrapped startup to 100k ARR: *Crickets*

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@FounderKyle

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2 months

I'm going full @levelsio and will be launching a bunch of micro-SaaS products and we'll see what sticks. Stay tuned!

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@FounderKyle

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22 days

My profile is getting a bunch of traffic due to the recent acquisition news... quick, drop what you're working on below to get some exposure for your startup or side project! 👇

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2 years

If you're bootstrapping, drop what your working on below 👇

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: It's harder to go from $0 - $1k in revenue than it is to go from $1k - $100k.

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2 months

Finding a founder who is good at both programming and marketing is like finding a unicorn. I'm pretty sure they don't exist.

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23 days

If someone asks me to sign an NDA to hear about their idea again I think I'm gonna shoot someone.

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27 days

Open invite to promote yourself or your service! 👇

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1 year

Is it just me, or do bootstrappers tend to root for each other more than VC backed companies do?

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1 year

If I piloted a podcast where I interviewed bootstrapped SaaS founders that have crossed $100K ARR to find their best strategies for making it to that milestone, would you listen? 🎧 Thoughts? 👇👀

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1 year

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Why haven't you launched?! |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_

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1 month

As a founder I can assure you, the customer is NOT always right.

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2 years

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Start a SaaS |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: Entrepreneurship can't be taught in a classroom.

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1 year

Building a startup should be fun. If you're not having fun, then you're not building the right startup.

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1 year

Is it just me or are some no-code solutions more confusing than just writing the code itself. 🤷‍♂️

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2 years

Unpopular Opinion: Building a product in an already crowded market isn't that bad of an idea.

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1 year

There’s nothing wrong with growing slowly.

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2 years

Quickest way to validate your startup idea (wrong answers only) 👇

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8 days

Starting something new? Unpopular opinion: Never jump to writing a business plan or registering an LLC first.

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2 years

Can bad products be sold by good marketing?

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4 months

Unpopular opinion: Most startup consultants are broke and desperately looking for work solving problems they've never solved at their own company.

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4 months

Unpopular opinion: If you're going to become an entrepreneur you have to be OK with the probable fact that you are going to make a lot less money building things than if you just took a corporate job.

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1 year

Entrepreneurship is often about what you do AFTER things don't go your way.

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3 months

People often ask me why I'm on Twitter and what I'm selling. The answer: * I'm not selling anything -- though I expect at some point in life I will. I mainly Tweet to meet cool people, inspire others, and be inspired. DM me if you're working on anything & want to chat 👍

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2 years

You might be a startup founder if you're more excited to work on your startup on Friday night than go out and party with friends...

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1 year

Some of the hardest things to do in life are: - Build a startup. - Raise a family. - Start something while having a full-time job. The hardest thing in life is: - Build a startup, while raising a family, with a full-time job. Props to anyone who is doing that! 🎉

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1 year

I’m excited to say that Removaly has gone from a side project, to a full-time job, to an acquisition by a privacy company that meets the unique & rigorous privacy-first standards & company values that we set for ourselves when John Bourscheid and I first started Removaly 🎉

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21 days

Is it just me or does hearing about how much everyone else is making not really help at all? What people need are the tactics of how people got there not just the fact that they're there and growing.

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5 months

How much did you make on your first startup? I'll go first... $0. 🙂

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4 months

Create a high ticket SaaS. Make it $1,000/month. You only need 10 customers and you've already "made it"

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2 years

In one sentence, what problem are you solving? 👀

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2 years

What's one thing that gives you motivation to work harder on your startup? 👇

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16 days

I'm convinced that if it's taken you more than 3 months to launch your side project then you're probably overthinking it.

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5 months

I'm acquiring SaaS product in the 1-10k MRR range. DM me if you're interested at all in an exit.

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5 months

Unpopular opinion: there's no reason it should take longer than 1 month to launch your startup.

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7 months

@mynameis_davis "We don't discount as we feel our prices are fair for the value we provide. If you're just basing your decision on price, I'd check out [X competitor] or [Y competitor] as they're not terrible if you're just looking to do [basic feature]. All the best!" 🙃🙂

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: If you happened to make $40k in one month, please don't advertise you're making $500k/year in revenue.

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2 years

If I got $10 for every startup idea I never launched, I'd have a pretty solid MRR.

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11 months

Behind every successful startup is a lot of hours of feeling unsuccessful.

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: It's better to go into a market if there's already a competitor.

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1 year

Unpopular Opinion: Building a product in an already crowded market isn't a bad idea.

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16 days

Me: Get feedback early and often. Ship fast. Iterate quick. Them: "What if they steal my idea?!" Me: Every new entrepreneur feels this way and every experienced entrepreneur doesn't feel this way. That should say something to you.

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1 year

Bootstrapped startups are overrated... said no one ever.

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2 years

The founder journey...

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1 year

How do you stay motivated to work on your startup? 👇

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: You don't need to have a degree to be a successful founder.

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2 years

Removaly was a finalist for "Privacy Product of The Year" on Product Hunt... 😺 Did you hear what happened? 🚨 Here's how it all went down 👇

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2 years

Is it possible to have a $100K ARR business while still having a full-time job?

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3 years

I launched Removaly on August 6th which got #1 Product of the Day 🏆 on Product Hunt: Since then, a ton of people have asked me how I did it... Here's a "tell all" of the top 10 things you should do for a successful PH launch 🚀( #7 & #10 are golden) 🧵👇

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Removaly - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

It's crazy how much of your sensitive personal information is floating around the internet for anyone to find… So we created a software that finds and removes this information, then scans DAILY to...

www.producthunt.com

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2 years

I have officially made enough money from my startup that I don't have to work until next year! 😆

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2 years

If you're planning to work on your startup tonight and don't know specifically what you'll work on... Just go to bed. Tomorrow's self will thank you.

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: it's OK to help people and expect nothing in return.

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2 months

Unpopular Opinion: the customer is not always right.

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1 month

You're just one idea away from changing your life. Please know that it will take between 1-5 years once you have that idea, and a ton of execution, pivoting, long nights and hard work... but yea it's possible. P.S. I've been there. It's possible. Happy to help if I can.

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5 months

Hands down, going from $0 to $1k is the hardest thing for any entrepreneur to do.

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2 years

Are you friends with any other founders? No? Ok, go make some founder friends. 🤝

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12 days

Stop over-engineering and just launch your thing already!

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1 month

I'll probably regret saying this out loud, but I respond to every (non-spam) DM that hits my inbox.

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2 years

Raised 500k: "Can I write about you"? Making 500k: "I guess that's cool. Let me know when you raise money."

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3 months

Building a SaaS is a lot easier said than done.

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2 years

Here's a FREE mini-course on how I grew from 0-4,000 followers in less than a year! 🎉👀 This is not "guru" advice with an up-sell at the end, it's just to show that growing on twitter isn't rocket-science 🚀 (It's not your typical success thread) 🧵👇

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2 years

As hard as this is to hear... you don't need a large Twitter following in order to have a successful startup. I hope that sets you free.

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2 years

If you're a founder and aren't connected with other founders... start connecting with other founders. It'll make the rollercoaster of being a founder a lot more enjoyable, I promise👍

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: You shouldn't be a "consultant for startups" yet you haven't created a successful startup yourself.

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15 days

"Be the startup you want to see in the world." - Me.

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2 months

If you have a side project or startup, drop a link below and I'll take a look and give you 1 thing you can improve on 👇

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2 years

There's no better platform than Twitter to make founder friends. 👋

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1 year

If you're up late working on your startup AND you have work in the morning... 1) props to you! 2) I hope your startup turns into a full-time thing this year! + feel free to reach out if there's anything I can do to help (I've been there + with 3 kids 5 and under) 👍🙌👀🚀

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: no code is overrated.

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1 year

Unfortunately, entrepreneurship is not as easy as it sounds.

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1 month

You know you're a true founder when you have 37 open tabs at all times... 😅

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1 year

Unpopular opinion: your startup doesn't need to disrupt anything for you to become a millionaire.

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2 years

What startup founder inspires you the most? 👀

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2 months

The more I build, the more I become confident that you don't need a following on Twitter to have a successful startup. In fact, it seems to be a hinderance for a lot of people.

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2 months

Being fast to reply is a very underrated growth hack.

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22 days

Ayy I got mentioned in a TechCrunch article! 🎉 P.S. to any other reporters out there... happy to be a reference for your article as well 😄

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DuckDuckGo launches a new subscription to bundle VPN and identity theft protection | TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo launched a new new Privacy Pro subscription to bundle a VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration.

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2 years

Unpopular Opinion: You don't need another course on creating a successful startup, you need to start building one to figure out what that means. 💪

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2 years

If you're a founder and you haven't made a sale then you shouldn't hire someone to make sales for you.

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4 months

Who else is working on their startup to bring in the new year?! 🚀

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