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An ad-attribution tool taken to a reported $40M ARR with no outside funding — by giving the software away free to the first thirty customers, installing it for them by hand, and trading results for testimonials before ever sending an invoice

A Shopify dev agency that turned every repeated client request into a public app — 13 apps, 100,000+ installs, 70 staff, and an IPO on India's small-cap exchange

A beautiful notes app built for the founder himself, run at $20K MRR by a team of four — and funded by a $1M round raised from its own customers with a promise of dividends instead of an exit

Four customers paying $99 once in year one. $1,500/month in year two. Three years to $10K/month — from a founder with 14 years of experience and an audience.

A non-technical course seller built his own ClickFunnels alternative for the audience he already had, and now pays affiliates $100K a month to sell it for him

10 million views produced $45,000 of AdSense against $36,000 of costs — $9,000 profit in two years. The back-end products on the same channel do $50K-$125K a month.

Four profitable years, £50-60K a month of fixed overheads, and one maternity leave: the month-by-month anatomy of how a London recruitment agency went from £90K in January to liquidation the following February

A French search API that grew from $12K MRR to 250 staff while its first business hire sold American enterprises from Paris using +1 415 phone numbers, midnight calls with the camera off, and a quarter spent on exactly thirty accounts

A kanban layer on top of GitHub Issues, built on nights and weekends, listed with a broker in mid-May and sold for its full $128,000 asking price by mid-June

Nine years of running other people's e-commerce projects as an agency, then a from-scratch rewrite nobody thought was needed — and a partner channel that took four years to work and now sources 35–40% of every new deal

Post once on your favourite platform and it syncs everywhere else — a solo build that went from concept to paying customers in a week and reached $716 MRR in three months, marketed entirely by LinkedIn posts and replying to whoever liked them

Two cousins with $68,000 and no baking experience borrowed the streetwear industry's weekly drop mechanic, rotated their menu every Sunday, and turned manufactured scarcity plus 16 million social followers into a billion dollars of systemwide sales

The back office for hiring anyone anywhere — $1M to $100M of revenue in 20 months, 1,300 people across 80+ countries, and never a single office

He took a nine-figure exit at $10M ARR growing 100% a year, cash-flow positive, on $8M raised — and spends this masterclass explaining why that was the stupidest decision available to him, using the $10 billion competitor as the control group

A Vietnamese-built test-automation platform that spent three years not charging anyone, then used pure self-service to reach 65,000 business customers in 160 countries without hiring a sales rep in any of them

A monthly hands-on project crate for kids that has shipped 50 million boxes and over $1B in lifetime revenue — profitable since 2016, under 150 staff, under $11M ever raised, and its own warehouse for fourteen years

Process a Kenyan merchant's payments, watch their real cash flow, then lend them unsecured working capital and take repayment as a percentage of the money already flowing through you

A Monterrey founder paid a Pakistani dev team $15,000 to build an email-capture SDK for mobile apps and sold exactly one licence at $300 a year; the $20,000 pivot that fixed a leak people could actually feel sold licences off a single webinar — and then the money ran out

Since 2010 it has financed 500 software companies across 1,500 separate rounds and about $500M deployed, on one product: up to roughly half your annual recurring revenue, no warrants, no personal guarantee, no board seat, repaid at about 1.3× over three years

Built in India, sold only to North American enterprises: $20M of revenue from fewer than 50 customers at $350K average contract value, now $40M+ a year

An operating system that runs inside the screens in shops, malls, coffee chains and lifts — it measures who looked, who picked the product up and who paid, then resells all those screens as a local ad network

A dermatologist built the software her own telederm clinic runs on, then started licensing it to other doctors — the clinic bills $150K/mo and pays the software company half of it

Five brothers put £600 into a boot-sale fragrance stall in East London and built a halal perfume chain with 20+ shopping-centre stores — no bank loans, no interest, no external investment

A second-time founder refused to sell his first ten customers through referrals or friends, closed all ten cold off LinkedIn at $10K–$20K a year, and built a procurement company that raised about $370M and closed a Series D at $2.2B post-money