Steal From The Best

Steal From The Best

Courtland Allen

Founder of Indie Hackers

Ideas

Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains the four wheels of a business idea

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains how he moved upmarket

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains the content-and-advertiser business model

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on how he got 100,000 page views in a week

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains how to start a startup without quitting your job

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How Indie Hackers cold-started a community with no audience

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains why founders should share what they're building

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on why to charge before you build

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on how he hacked his interview process

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on how to increase your luck

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains why founders should talk to users one-on-one

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains his deliberate process for startup ideas

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on why founders don’t share distribution advantages

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on why an audience isn’t a community

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on what it means to dig deep

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains why you can't build a community around everything

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on how to practice generating startup ideas

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen: “You don’t need permission to build a business”

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on why charging for community membership can raise quality

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains why founders should focus on marketing early

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen: “Who kills your business is that you quit”

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains why competition is an advantage

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains how a mailing list gave him an unfair advantage

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains why sharing revenue numbers helps startups stand out

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on why founders build in public

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on why other people are a good motivation hack

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen: “Make other people more awesome”

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen on how people come up with startup ideas

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Indie Hackers founder Courtland Allen explains why optimism is key to startup success

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Intro

▶️E1143: Indie Hackers' Courtland Allen is creating a community for the next generation of builders1:25:12 · 23 Nov 2020

▶️Bootstrapping to $8k/Month Revenue & Interviewing 500+ Founders (Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers)38:25 · 14 Feb 2020

📄The long warm up23 min · 10 Aug 2020

Deep

📝#185 How Courtland Allen Built Indie Hackers, with Ben and David from Acquired

🎧Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers111 min · 17 Dec 2020

🎧Building Indie Hackers with Courtland Allen

📝Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit — Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers22 Sep 2017

📄Three lessons for indie hackers, from MrBeast's playbook for success

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