Welcome to the Back Bedroom to Big Business podcast hosted by the talented and educational hosts Dino Tartaglia and Simon Hartley. Our hosts are a winning team with combined experience, research, and know how to help other business owners get where they want to go. Back Bedroom to Big Business is not an average business podcast that makes you feel inspired, but not motivated to action. You’ll be taking notes during their weekly episodes and planning how to implement what you’ve learned.

During this episode, Dino and Simon discuss part two of their series about building a global business without venture capital funding or significant investments. This episode will focus on case studies of extremely successful online businesses and how they attained their global status with little to no support.

The Businesses

• Basecamp - Project management platform
• • Self-funded
  • Started with a team of only four people
  • Grew 100,000 customer organically
  • Committed to a vision he could execute
• Grammarly - Writing assistant
• • Spell and grammar checker and much more
  • Charges 800 universities and 100,000 writers 
  • Free Google Chrome extension
  • 7 million active users daily
  • Focused relentlessly on one core value: 
  • • Helping people communicate better wherever they write online
• Shutterstock - Stock/Royalty free photos
• • Limited market
  • Combined his personal skill of photography and web development
  • • Shot 30,000 photos in the first year of business
    • Personally coded the site
  • 2 Billion dollar business

Commonalities:

• Founding principle  - focus on solving a valuable problem for the market
• Passionate 
• Finances
• • Surviving/thriving
  • Cash flow
  • Profitability

“Honestly, I couldn’t live without it, man.” (Grammarly)

“He’s not a magician or lucky. He just made some really good decisions and acted on them.”

“They are solving a problem that makes a real difference and has real value in the world.”

“Reinvesting to grow further.”

“Every dollar is a prisoner.”

“Return on spend is a great metric.”

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