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Josh Ledgard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
162 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

In a range?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

For me to take home as a range personally, like my share of it would have to be, for me to say yes, my share of it personally would probably have to be closer to like three or four.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

I own half the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Yeah, we're talking, we'd be talking about, if we were talking about that, we'd be having a discussion, which I'm not even about to engage in those discussions because I've learned enough from talking to other people that have sold businesses to know that I don't feel like I'm, I don't feel like I'm there where I could hand over the keys to somebody and say like, oh yeah, this just runs, you know, without me having to be too involved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

It'd be a nice earn out of the employee, but that wouldn't, if I sold the business, I kind of look at it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

I'm one of the people that would look at like selling the business and saying, you know, if I sell the business, it's now yours.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

I will help and I'll help with the transition and all of that stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

But I want to be in a position where I can, if we were to sell it, that it was something that I would feel that like I was giving somebody that was in really good shape without me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

On Twitter, I'm Josh A. Ledgard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And then they can just email josh at kickofflabs.com as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

I like the two different styles of both studying Tim Ferriss and Elon Musk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Um, right now I'm going to say, uh, help scout, um, cause it's the way we support our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

And I think customer support is critical at every single stage of the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

I burn out otherwise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

A lesson I keep relearning is just understanding that, uh, working smart is way more important than simply working hard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

I mean, the combination of the two is important, but just spinning your wheels on things and thinking like, oh, this is great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

I made so much progress today, but if it's progress that doesn't grow your career, teach you something or grow your business, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 432: Boostrapped SaaS Hits $75k MRR, Viral Campaigns, 1000 Customers with KickOffLabs CEO Josh Ledgard

then maybe it wasn't the most worthwhile spend of your, you know, eight to 12 hour work days or how many hours you want to work.