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Joaquin del Rio

Joaquin del Rio covers the money behind the milestones for OperatorBook, digging into what bootstrapped and indie founders actually earn and what it took to get there.

Day in the life

From freelance to $50K MRR in 18 months: a day in the life

Tomás Iglesias turned six years of hourly freelancing into a productized service business doing $51K MRR with a team of five, and his hours dropped from 60+ to 45 a week while revenue doubled. A real Tuesday, with the numbers: the utilization metric he checks before coffee, the $28K over-hiring scare, why he still does every sales call himself, and the $13K of actual monthly profit hiding behind the headline.

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