How Did ZippyKid Do $250k In Its First Year Of WordPress Hosting? – with Vid Luther

Vid Luther, ZippyKid, Bootstrapping, Scaling, Subscription (Membership) Model, Wow People

How did Vid Luther get his bootstrapped startup to generate $250,000 within in its first year? By doing anything his customers wanted.

Even though his company, ZippyKid, offers managed WordPress hosting, if a customer wanted design work or anything else related to WordPress, Vid’s answer was, “sure.”

This is the story of a grueling first year and the outcome of all of that work.

Vid Luther

ZippyKid

Vid Luther is CEO and Founder of ZippyKid, which takes care of your automatic updates, security of plugins, and servers.

 

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