Taylor Crane

I've been waiting to make this post for so long now. In March, @fractionaljobs finally, *finally* crossed the $50,000 / month revenue mark. This is a Bootstrapped Biz Update™ paired with a "WTF do I do now?" crisis. OK first, the state of the business. • $50K/mo revenue • 40K fractional execs in the network (and adding 3K / mo) • 100+ companies successfully hired fractional talent so far • 1 full-time team member (the rest part-time), + myself We launched 2.2 years ago for context. Funny side story, before I built Fractional Jobs I wrote a memo with my plan for the project. I just pulled it up. Literally the first line: "My current professional goal is to bootstrap a project that reaches $5K monthly revenue." 😂 I kept moving the goal posts, though. $5K didn't feel like an accomplishment when I hit it. And at $10K, I remember saying to myself "it needs to be $50K". It took 18 more months of building to do it. I won't be simply moving the goal posts again though. First, I'm taking the moment as a win. I'm genuinely very, very happy about this one. It kinda feels like a resting point, a chance to take a breath. And second, this leads me to my "WTF do I do now?" crisis. I am transparently, honestly, admitting to myself that what took me from $0 --> $50K will NOT be what gets me to $100K/mo. Something needs to be different. So... WTF do I do now? I don't know yet. This is the next chapter for me. Figuring out what needs to be true for the business to get to $100K+, and then making it true. On the bright side, the business is making like actual profit now, more than I need for living expenses. So re-investing makes sense. I've never had to do that, so that'll be new. I'll probably mess it up at first :) Anyway, that's the update, that's where things are at. Hope this is either helpful or entertaining! Day-to-day stress and extremely unsexy work aside, what a fun puzzle this all is. I feel very lucky. If you're reading this sentence all the way down here, thank you for following along. You're one of 4 people who read my tweets, a very exclusive club (I'm relegated to being a Linkedin influencer it seems)

@tenobrus being a **vc-backed** founder

being a founder is reaching status lows i have never before seen my entire time in tech

@CoryOnBrand This is so good I'm saving it as inspo

Finally finished the redesign of my site. Thoughts?

oh and so much YC hate too

Is it me or is the whole timeline just hating these days? Rn everyone is hating on Naval, MTS, Claude, Altman, etc. It's all I read.

@iamideaguy @fractionaljobs Thanks!

@taykcrane @fractionaljobs Congrats, I love the idea of fractional jobs and I think this is where the whole market is headed in a few years.

I've been waiting to make this post for so long now. In March, @fractionaljobs finally, *finally* crossed the $50,000 / month revenue mark. This is a Bootstrapped Biz Update™ paired with a "WTF do I do now?" crisis. OK first, the state of the business. • $50K/mo revenue • 40K fractional execs in the network (and adding 3K / mo) • 100+ companies successfully hired fractional talent so far • 1 full-time team member (the rest part-time), + myself We launched 2.2 years ago for context. Funny side story, before I built Fractional Jobs I wrote a memo with my plan for the project. I just pulled it up. Literally the first line: "My current professional goal is to bootstrap a project that reaches $5K monthly revenue." 😂 I kept moving the goal posts, though. $5K didn't feel like an accomplishment when I hit it. And at $10K, I remember saying to myself "it needs to be $50K". It took 18 more months of building to do it. I won't be simply moving the goal posts again though. First, I'm taking the moment as a win. I'm genuinely very, very happy about this one. It kinda feels like a resting point, a chance to take a breath. And second, this leads me to my "WTF do I do now?" crisis. I am transparently, honestly, admitting to myself that what took me from $0 --> $50K will NOT be what gets me to $100K/mo. Something needs to be different. So... WTF do I do now? I don't know yet. This is the next chapter for me. Figuring out what needs to be true for the business to get to $100K+, and then making it true. On the bright side, the business is making like actual profit now, more than I need for living expenses. So re-investing makes sense. I've never had to do that, so that'll be new. I'll probably mess it up at first :) Anyway, that's the update, that's where things are at. Hope this is either helpful or entertaining! Day-to-day stress and extremely unsexy work aside, what a fun puzzle this all is. I feel very lucky. If you're reading this sentence all the way down here, thank you for following along. You're one of 4 people who read my tweets, a very exclusive club (I'm relegated to being a Linkedin influencer it seems)

@antinertia Cc @jaredgoldtalks

hiring – urgent 🚨 looking for a VLOG videographer for a BILLION dollar founder you’ll document the insane life of one of the most interesting tech founders in san francisco his daily life is unreal daily tasks: film everything, morning to night > him waking up > him in meetings with billion-dollar founders closing partnerships > him losing it because marketing pushed a migration > him jogging > him raising millions almost every week > him designing one of the most viral products on earth > him planning huge marketing stunts + edit everything run the youtube (long-form) run the instagram (shorts) you’ll work directly with him + me this is one of the hottest startups in sf DM me your best piece of work start within 24h

Hire the "higher-value" person fractionally. Lowers risk considerably and makes this whole tweet obsolete.

Oh you raised $100M for your b2b fintech AI app? Errm... Why?

The defining status symbol of this decade will be "Raised $0."

@alexkehr I'm taking this flight tomorrow lol

the american mind (me) cannot comprehend european airline flight prices can i just book all 190 seats for $3400 and have a private 737 flight?

I'm tempted to finally churn off Slack. We're paying ~$6k/year for 40 people and they just quoted me $21k/year for the business version that includes a BAA (and all the shitty AI features). Incredibly overrated software

@amandalschulze @fractionaljobs Thanks :) Ha, way too long for a tweet to answer honestly and thoroughly. A lot of work though, that's for sure.

@taykcrane @fractionaljobs Congrats, this is a huge win! Can you share more about what actually moved the needle to get you to $50k MRR (and also what things you tried that didn't get you there)?

@Erwin_AI Not sure the tax law in NL, but in USA for an LLC it's a "pass through entity" meaning your business profits get taxed on your personal tax return regardless. And if you're a C Corp you're double taxed (once for the business and once when you transfer to personal)

Business rule number one: Try to keep the money in the business. Personal tax is high in pretty much any country in the world. Fastest way to get rekt. Don't try to get paid out everything to your personal account. It makes no sense. Why would you? Stay poor. Thank me later.

LYN ALDEN: "Let's say you have a $500 billion hole that shows up in private credit. That's three months of US deficit spending. You can snap your fingers and make that problem go away. We live in a fiat world. But when you have molecules that just can't get to where they have to go at that scale… the Fed can't print oil." @LynAldenContact

algorithmic feeds turned social media into a game learn the meta and you realize most of your FYP is just people playing it

@felixhhaas @kevintwohy spotted

I see a lot of founders making the same mistake. They hire the wrong branding partner. Usually a big agency that takes way too long. The best brands I’ve seen don’t come from big agencies. They come from small, sharp teams with super strong taste. Teams that move fast and build with you, not for you. So I curated my go-to list of studios I’d recommend to any early-stage founder building in consumer tech. Built in Lovable. brand-studios.lovable.app

@JerimiahLee @zerohedge Nevermind, I see it's 87k per sponsor. Wow.

@JerimiahLee @zerohedge How does $87k/mo translate to $30mm arr?

*OPENAI ACQUIRED TBPN FOR ‘LOW HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS’: FT

Breaking news: Anthropic buys the All in podcast just to shut it down Dario quoted as saying: “this isn’t even about new media I just want to stop seeing them on my timeline”