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LIFTOFF LIVE | ALARI AHO | Toggl Founder | Bootstrapping Startups, Managing remote teams
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LIFT99 Presents: LIFTOFF LIVE 🚀
Alari Aho is the Estonian Startup bootstrapping legend, having founded Toggl, Teamweek and Hundred5 without raising venture capital.
Alari has grown Toggl to be one of the most successful time tracking apps in the world after founding it in the early 2000s. Toggl is known for it's content around managing remote teams and for having been 100% bootstrapped thus far, despite growing well past 1 million users.
01:30 Intro to Alari Aho and Toggl
02:50 How to break your leg and learn software engineering in 1989
07:10 The Estonian Startup Scene & Skype
09:25 Switching from Agency to Startup
11:15 Toggl as a side project, a big mistake. Commit to your startup.
12:45 Toggl's Minimum Viable Product
16:10 The difference between traditional business and startups
17:15 Bootstrapping Toggl, why bootstrapping is good for startups, tips on bootstrapping for founders.
23:00 Toggl culture and focusing on the team. Leading as an introvert. The brand, the Toggl Comics, etc.
28:00 Hiring remote workers, managing remote startup teams, going all in with remote working, hiring remote employees. Why bother with remote teams? Toggle's guide to remote working.
37:00 Rapid fire tips on managing remote teams
38:15 Hundred5 and Teamweek, Alari Aho is a serial founder. Moving on from the CEO role.
41:30 Many startup succeeding, Many more failed companies. How to decide if your product is a success.
45:00 Hundred5: The numbers and success. What is Hundred5? The secret to hiring developers unlocked. How does it work? Hiring leaders. 49:00 The future of Alari Aho at Toggl, Hundred5, Teamweek. Still working every day.
51:30 Q&A
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