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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 šŸ‘‹ 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 šŸ“ˆ $0-$5M ARR without funding with Groove šŸŽÆMy new challenge: Bootstrapping a new SaaS in public from Zero to $10M ARR in 3 years w/ 50%+ EBITDA šŸ’ø Sharing my learnings on building highly profitable, capital efficient, lean, bootstrapped SaaS business What you'll get by subscribing to my newsletter: šŸš€ Actionable tips to grow a profitable SaaS business šŸ“š Education around the future of AI in customer service šŸ”„ Transparent & actionable advice, no fluff šŸ’¼ 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 ā€œSubscribeā€ button!

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"I just want to sell and disappear."

The Zero to $10M Newsletter Get behind the curtain while we scale to $10M ARR -- in real time. Every playbook. Every experiment. Nothing held back. Join the Academy šŸ‘‰ Zero to $10M "I just want to sell and disappear." The founder across from me was running a $3M ARR SaaS business. Profitable. Growing. 22 employees. And completely miserable: "I can't do this anymore," she said. "Every day feels like I'm drowning in my own success." Her exit strategy was textbook: Find a strategic buyer....

The Zero to $10M Newsletter Swipe my Go-To-Market playbooks (the tech, the copy, the strategy) and join a community of vetted SaaS Founders šŸ‘‰ Zero to $10M Academy A McKinsey consultant just called my $5M ARR business ā€œcute.ā€ His biggest win? A deck about ā€œoperational excellence.ā€ I’m being lectured on Zoom by a professional failure šŸ˜ž The startup advice industrial complex is broken... People with: Impressive credentials Zero operational experience Business ā€œtheoryā€ Are drowning out voices that...

The Zero to $10M ARR Newsletter I've scaled Groove to $5M ARR bootstrapped and will launch 2 new companies in September. I’m starting a private community to share every playbook, strategy, and decision with founders who want to build alongside me... šŸ‘‰ Interested? Just reply to this email and I’ll send you the details. 1,000+ slide playbook. Over 200 hours of research. Every step, decision, and strategy that took Groove from $0 to $5M ARR. And, the new playbook I'm using to launch InstantDocs...

The Zero to $10M ARR Newsletter I'm building two SaaS companies to $10M ARR. Follow along and copy everything I do šŸ‘‰ Zero to $10M ARR When I started Groove, I had two choices. Find a technical co-founder or stay stuck forever. I chose a third option: hire an agency and ship fast. It cost $300K. Everyone said I was insane... But within months, I had momentum, customers, and leverage. The same founders who called me dumb started asking how I did it. Here’s what they don’t tell you: The founder...

The Zero to $10M ARR Newsletter Most founder communities are noise. This one gives you answers. šŸ‘‰ Zero to $10M ARR Academy Real tactics. Weekly coaching. Private access to the playbooks behind Helply, InstantDocs, and Groove. No fluff. Just a clear path to profitable, sustainable SaaS growth. Learn more here. ā€œGo big or go homeā€ is dead. We’re not chasing unicorns. We’re building assassins. Here’s how we’re doing it (and the real numbers behind it).... The Old World of Software The VC...

The Zero to $10M ARR Newsletter Want to see how I'm launching and scaling two SaaS companies in real time? I'm creating a community + coaching program to teach everything I know to bootstrapped founders scaling from zero to $10M ARR. It's called the Zero to $10M ARR Academy. No theory. No fluff. Just what’s working right now. Come join us. You took a $50K pay cut for startup equity. The VCs are counting on that. Here’s what they know that you don’t... Last year, a friend called excited: Head...

The Zero to $10M ARR Newsletter I'm creating a community + coaching program for boostrapped founders scaling from zero to $10M ARR. It's called the Zero to $10M ARR Academy. If you're building something worthwhile and want support, guidance, and a community, come join us. A ā€˜successful’ founder friend of mine sold for $200M last year. His take-home after 6 years? $8.4M. He raised over $80M in venture capital, and the founders put in their life savings. In 2022, he tried to hire me saying...

The Zero to $10M ARR Newsletter I decided that since I’m bootstrapping Helply and InstantDocs in public, I might as well teach everything I know. So I'm starting a new community for B2B SaaS founders bootstrapping their companies to $10M ARR. It's called the Zero to $10M ARR Academy. If you're scaling something and want the actual playbooks on what, when, and how to do it, come join us. One of my VC-backed friends raised $33M. His startup got a $195M valuation in 2023. Every metric looked...

The Zero to $10M ARR Newsletter This newsletter is brought to you by Elizabeth O'Neill, an executive coach (and my sister) who helped me through some of the toughest moments in my journey as a founder. She’s not just family. We worked together for 4 years during some of the lowest points in my entrepreneurial career. Without her coaching, I’m not sure I would’ve made it to 20 years in. We also sat down recently to talk about those 20 years on her podcast. Give it a listen. I think you’ll...

Hey Reader, Most AI agents fall short because the data behind them is weak. You don’t know what to train them on. Or you add what you have, but aren’t sure if it’s sufficient. And that’s where it breaks. It’s a data source problem. When we set out to build Helply, that was one of our biggest findings; lack of optimized data was killing AI agents. We went out and solved that problem with Knowledge Bridgeā„¢. Knowledge Bridgeā„¢ runs your support tickets against your knowledge base, finds the gaps,...