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Alex Turnbull

$0 to $5M ARR bootstrapped, solo founder. My new challenge: bootstrapping a new SaaS in public from $0 to $10M ARR in 3 years w/ 50%+ profit margins. Founder & CEO @ GrooveHQ.com & Helply.com 👋 I'm Alex, and here's my story in a nutshell: - Founded 3 businesses: one sold for 8-figures, the other valued at $40M+, and my latest is just starting up - Early #buildinpublic founder with Groove’s Journey to 100K blog - Featured in 100+ media outlets 📈 $0-$5M ARR without funding with Groove 🎯My new challenge: Bootstrapping a new SaaS in public from Zero to $10M ARR in 3 years w/ 50%+ EBITDA 💸 Sharing my learnings on building highly profitable, capital efficient, lean, bootstrapped SaaS business What you'll get by subscribing to my newsletter: 🚀 Actionable tips to grow a profitable SaaS business 📚 Education around the future of AI in customer service 🔥 Transparent & actionable advice, no fluff 💼 Exclusive updates on growth Ready to build the highly profitable, capital-efficient, bootstrapped SaaS of your dreams? I’ll be sending a weekly newsletter documenting my journey from Zero to $10M ARR with Helply and business growth tips + tricks - so hit that “Subscribe” button!

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Calling it: the path to $10M ARR in 12 months

The Zero to $10M ARR Newsletter Join our SaaS founder community and get AI-powered GTM playbooks, live calls every week, exclusive mastermind, private Slack (with direct access to me and the whole team). Join The Academy 👉 Zero to $10M Hey Reader, I’m putting it out there publicly. OptimizeCX will grow from $5M to $10M ARR in the next 12 months. With only 10 employees. Here’s the exact 7-step GTM playbook we’re running. Step 7 is the one I’m most excited about. Step 1. Finish 2 world-class AI...

The Zero to $10M ARR Newsletter Get behind the curtain while we scale to $10M ARR -- in real time. Every playbook. Every experiment. Nothing held back. Free until September. Join the Academy 👉 Zero to $10M Issue #1 We’re rebooting this newsletter with one goal: share exactly how we’re scaling 3 SaaS companies to $10M ARR in real-time. We’re kicking things off with how this idea led to our new brand, and how we launched a $40,795 MRR SaaS founder community in just 60 days, using nothing but a...

The Zero to $10M Newsletter From zero to $34,228 MRR: new experiment, new results, sharing it all inside Zero to $10M. Learn more here. Most founders think you need millions to break into a crowded SaaS market. Guillaume Moubeche built lempire with only $1,000 in his pocket. In 2018, he launched with a single product: lemlist. Four years later, he sold 20% of the company for $30 million. Today, lempire’s suite - lemlist, lemwarm, lemcal, Taplio, and Tweet Hunter - serves over 125,000...

The Zero to $10M Newsletter 200 new customers in 45 days 👉 get our latest AI-powered GTM playbook. Learn more here. Hey Reader, If you had to double your customer base in the next 60 days, what marketing channel would you double down on? Sponsorships Organic social (Twitter, LinkedIn, FB, etc.) Review platforms (G2, Capterra) PLG optimization SEO Webinars Ads (Facebook / Instagram / LinkedIn etc.) Outbound / Cold email Most of these are slow-burn marketing channels. They take a while to get...

The Zero to $10M Newsletter No fluff. No gurus. Just the full GTM system we’re using to build two SaaS companies to $10M ARR. Learn more here. Most founders want to go big, fast. Jason Fried went small and slow. On purpose. In a world chasing blitzscale, Basecamp did the opposite: No funding. No growth hacks. No 10x team. Today, that small and slow approach is a $100M+ business; profitable, focused, 20 years strong, with fewer than 100 employees. Here's what I learned from Jason: The SaaS...

The Zero to $10M Newsletter Everything we’re doing to scale Helply and InstantDocs to $10M ARR. No shortcuts. No noise. Just the work, shared with you, live. Learn more here I’m nervous. Not because things are broken..but because I’m breaking them on purpose. Groove is profitable at $423K MRR with 50%+ margins. Most would ride that out and coast. But the market is shifting fast. We’re watching an AI arms race unfold. Big tech is embedding AI into bloated platforms with endless features. Lean...

The Zero to $10M Newsletter No fluff. No gurus. Just the full GTM system we’re using to build two SaaS companies to $10M ARR. Learn more here. Hey Reader - Alex here. Over the last year, I’ve been building two new AI products (Helply and InstantDocs) from scratch. No outside funding. No big team. Just a few of us moving fast. We’re aiming to grow both to $10M ARR. But this time, I’m doing something different. Instead of waiting years to share the results… I’m sharing it all live. Every step....

The Zero to $10M Newsletter Scale smarterJoin 300 founders using our playbooks to grow to $10M ARR. Learn more You built Amazon into a trillion-dollar empire. Tuesday, Andy Jassy told 1.56 million of you: "AI does your job better." The loyalty was never mutual: AI is coming for white-collar work faster than anyone expected. Andy Jassy didn't sugarcoat it in his memo Tuesday: "We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today." Translation: Your role might not exist in...

The Zero to $10M Newsletter Get the full GTM system we used to scale Groove to $5M ARR and that we're using to scale Helply and InstantDocs to $10M ARR in real-time. Learn more "I appreciate it, Alex. But I have to pay my mortgage…" My best hire walked away from “million-dollar equity upside.” $50K more salary won. So did he. I used to believe the SV playbook: Offer equity to attract top talent at below-market salaries. "You'll get rich when we exit," I'd promise. Early at Groove, my first...

The Zero to $10M Newsletter Build alongside me and let's scale to $10M ARR. Every playbook. Every experiment. Nothing held back. Join the Academy 👉 Zero to $10M I burned $2M in under 2 years. Not on bad product, pivots, or GTM tactics. On "rockstars" who rotted my company from the inside: First mistake: the $200K rockstar developer. "Give me 6 months to rebuild everything." Month 1: "Just analyzing the codebase." Month 3: "This is more complex than expected." Month 6: "Almost ready to ship...