jamesofthedrum

I've been aggregating the latest micro-SaaS acquisition opportunities and I'm eager for feedback. These opps are from Saturday's issue. Apologies for the crap formatting. It's cleaner with more detail here:…

Found this one interesting. A rare papyrus was discovered in Masada, Israel. It’s the paycheck of a Roman legionary soldier dated to 72 CE, during the period of the Great Revolt of the Jews against the Romans. This is…

With big companies pumping a ton of money into snatching up keywords, can a small player really hope to make any gains? And is playing the long-game of SEO really worthwhile for an early-stage company or is it best to…

I have an archaeological/anthropological newsletter that has nearly 1200 subs with a ~50% open rate, and I just monetized it over the weekend. I got a couple of upgrades to the paid tier right away (including some…

So excited! I'm having a ton of fun with it and growing organically (mostly reddit). Woohoo! Next stop, monetization. I think I'll make the current format paid, and offer a truncated version to free subs. Pricing this…

Interviewed Erik van Eykelen of releasewise.com, a (then) 51-year-old programmer and founder who had some interesting things to say about growing older in tech. "I'm 51 and I've been active in this industry since I was…

From a pretty intense interview I did with Andres Aguerrevere of Wegacha. At the time, his company was making $30k/mo. "Someone tried to kidnap me for a ransom about ten years ago. The police stopped it right in time.…

I interviewed Emmanuel Straschnov, the co-founder of the nocode platform [Bubble](https://bubble.io/) a while back. At the time, they were pulling in about $150k/mo. TL;DR: Entrepreneurship is not glamorous, but it's…