LinkedIn Templates: Bootstrapping

Everyone at TalentBee will close laptops today and return to work in January.

I think getting a bit of rest for the whole team after a busy year is crucial.

Everyone is getting a normal full salary from December, and our team fully pays for these days off.

Here are 5 successes and 5 f*cks ups from this year:

✅ Build a brand - it pays off.

✅ Throwing a +300 people's birthday party

✅ 0% customer churn

✅ Giving our team members much responsibility --> It's not easy for them, but they are growing so fast.

✅ Growing our MRR to + 30 000€

❌ Too many development projects at the same time and no focus

❌ Not enough time and focus on sales

❌ Not understanding when my team members needed help and solving the problems for them

❌ Not succeeding in onboarding new people to TalentBee's ways of working in the way I should have

❌ Not talking enough about our vision and mission but focusing too much on the hard numbers

There are a few more hours of work today and then on the holidays.

Enjoy Christmas and Happy New Year 🥰

In last months I worked in probably 100 different places

Before that, last 3 years, I was working mostly from home.

I worked in:

- cafes

- car

- ship

- plane

- hotels

- airbnbs

- coworkings

So, I was trying to figure out for myself what is the best model for me.

And realised that working 100% from home is not the best for me.

Very productive for me is to work from coworking or closed spaces where you have limited amount of time to work. It is like working for a deadline in the train for example.

But you can not work from train, every day of course.

So, my best working expereince:

- working from coworking

- walking there and back by foot

- 2 days in a week down work or work from home

- work one of the weekends

The main reason, is that I feel much more active working from somewhere I need to walk to.

Combining it together with travelling, you need to stay in one place at least for month or 3 is ideal.

Yesterday, were the new location working from the park in Brisbane 😂

What your idea working places?

The other side of building in public, nobody says about

I experienced myself for the first time. COPYCAT.

First time smn who reached personally to me and was very open to support each other projects.

Copied Postli functions.

And than said copied it from other product 🤣

And it is ok, it is not changing anything for me.

But it made me thinking.

We copy, and we being copied. That's how we live and learn.

I sometimes got the idea, which I think is mine, but actually saw sometimes ago somewhere. So, my brain copy it without telling me.

Everyone copy from everyone, so this is just like that.

And now with the development being more accessible and cheap, it is just easier to copy.

Tamara Kramer would say, build strong brand that nobody copy it.

Yes, brand is good, but also takes time especially for solo founders.

Regarding the situation, first I got a bit upset, because and only because I know this person. Next I thought, maybe I should not share all.

But I think it does not worth it.

I stay true to myself, building in public is good, no matter what. :

- building in public is better

- growing brands is better

- sharing is better

- getting more feedback

Dont cover up and be afraid that someone steal smth and be in stealth.

You risk never launch 🤣

In 2023 my LinkedIn posts caught eyes of 905k people

Practically 1 Million like:

- The biggest music festival

- City, size of San Francisco

- 4 times more than any stadium

As you see, it is not spread equally:

- it is graph with peaks

- with more stable activity seen in the end of December 

- with average only 2k impressions per post

- with 1 highest performing post

One viral post, is kind of the reason: 

- I started actively posting on Linkedin

- I built micro-tools for Linkedin 

- I receive feedback

- I got inspired

And after that 100+ more posts building in public and sharing my journey.

Thanks for this awesome year 😊

My last recap of 2023 "Linkedin wins" :

1. I cried 10 times over 3 likes on my posts

2. Commented "Great" under smn posts 500 times

3. I hit 3 figure MRR for Linkedin tools I built

4. Get viral 1 time

5. Explained my family what viral is 20 times

6. Thought about becoming a ghostwriter 100 times

7. Never did, so did not reach 7 figure MRR

8. Spend 100 hours on creating pyramids for my lists

9. Spend 200 hours on creating carousels

10. Get 20 offers to be promoted by Linkedin influencers with 137k+ followers 

11. Repeated "Build in public" 300 times

12. Create 100 photos of me with computer where I pretend to code

13. Start doubting I really code

14. Mentioned people 350 times

15. Did not get response from 349/350

16. Stopped saying that Linkedin cringe

17. Thought for a second maybe I am also cringe now

18. Read interesting posts and spoke with interesting people to stop doubts

19. Laughed on memes on Linkedin every day

All numbers in this post are fake or exaggerated by me.

😀