Arvid Kahl on building a profitable SaaS (Podscan), calm funding and juggling a media business

About this episode

Arvid Kahl discusses his journey as a SaaS founder, funding experiences, and content creation.

Arvid Kahl is returning to the podcast for the third time. In 2019, he’d just sold Feedback Panda for a life changing amount of money and then wrote the book Zero to Sold. In 2023, he was in full-on creator mode with The Bootstrapped Founder and had just released The Embedded Entrepreneur. Now, he’s still producing the content but is also spending time on his SaaS Podscan, which is an extremely ambitious tool that transcribes every podcast and let’s you track mentions of your brand. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:27 Arvid's life as a SaaS founder 02:48 Are people still building in public 03:54 No longer being a solo founder 05:24 Raising from Calm Fund 09:17 Keeping The Bootstrapped Founder running 12:10 Wins for 2024 13:36 Parting advice 15:08 Recommendations Recommendations Book - A Court of Thorns and Roses Podcast - The Economics of Everyday Things Indie Hacker - Tyler Tringas My links Twitter Indie Bites Twitter Indie Bites YouTube Join the membership Personal Website 2 Hour Podcast Course PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast) This Indie Life Podcast Sponsor - EmailOctopus 🐙 EmailOctopus is an independently owned email marketing platform, built to support other small growing…

People in this episode

Host: James McKinven

Guest: Arvid Kahl

Topics covered

• SaaS
• entrepreneurship
• funding
• media business
• content creation

Keywords

• SaaS
• funding
• entrepreneurship
• content creation
• podcast transcription

Sponsors

EmailOctopus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Calm Fund, The Bootstrapped Founder, Podscan

Books & works: Zero to Sold, The Embedded Entrepreneur, A Court of Thorns and Roses, The Economics of Everyday Things

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