8,000 Volunteers ready to help build your tech startup

Life is becoming tense as each day in July goes by as we march towards achieving the end of year target of 11,000 total Volunteers by end of this month (July 2022) We just went past the 8,000th Volunteer mark a few hours ago and are now at 8,029. Remember, it took us 176 days […]
I\’m 54 today

I\’ve turned 54 today. A hell of a lot to achieve by 55! Before that, we need to onboard 3,283 Volunteers and 75 tech startups before the end of July. SkilledUp Life – free talent for tech startups + gain experience to land the next job Please do spread the word! thanks
I\’m 54 today

I\’ve turned 54 today. A hell of a lot to achieve by 55! Before that, we need to onboard 3,283 Volunteers and 75 tech startups before the end of July. SkilledUp Life – free talent for tech startups + gain experience to land the next job Please do spread the word! thanks
Reducing the risk rate of bootstrapped SaaS
My response to a post that appeared on Hacker News and was promoted on Indie Hackers. For your typical solo founder in their 30s, their odds of dying at any point over the next 10 years is something like 0.2%. And short of them dying, their business isn\’t going anywhere because keeping a SaaS startup […]
SkilledUp Life supports the underdog

The world is organised to support winners. Everyone loves a winner. Every investor is looking for the next unicorn. Less than 1% of tech startups get funded. Who is looking after the rest? We are! SkilledUp Life is looking for the underdogs those who get rejected by Venture capitalists. those who get rejected by angel […]
SkilledUp Life Progress Update at end of Week 98

Here\’s a quick progress update of SkilledUp Life at the end of Week 98, i.e. end of 19th June 2022: Volunteers: 6,861 (behind by 239 – need 775 this week to stay on target to get to 11,000 by end of Jul) Customers: 22 (behind by 3 – need 10 this week to get to […]
Introducing Open Makers, Bingewell, Bluu Kazi and Texkoop

We are ending the week by adding 4 more tech startups to SkilledUp Life taking the total to 22 tech startup Founder Customers. Let me quickly introduce them. Open Makers (USA) by Micah Iverson Open Makers helps to organize and share your side projects, important milestones, product launches, tasks and more with the indie maker […]
The unfair advantage gained by Michael Hoeft and Learnhall

I\’m watching with fascination when our Tech Startup Customers leverage SkilledUp Life to the maximum. Such is the case of Michael Hoeft and his Learnhall. The story before I met Michael at Pioneer. He was one of the first tech founders to see the potential of SkilledUp Life. I try to help everyone who subscribes […]
The long road to the magical £10k MRR by end of Oct 2022

We have two targets to hit on our way to £10k MRR by 31st Oct 2022. The first is to get to 100 paying customers by end of July 2022. https://skilledup.life – giving a leg up to Indiehackers and bootstrapped tech startups with free talent to build and grow their tech startups. Just signed up the […]
Case Study – Michael Hoeft and Learnhall
I had the privilege to catch up with Michael Hoeft recently, whose tech startup has been transformed since joining SkilledUp Life. Prior to joining SkilledUp Life, Michael focused on building an EdTech company to target the US market. Since joining SkilledUp Life, his focus has shifted to reducing high unemployment in Nigeria through his new […]