Year in review: 7 years of running our profitable bootstrapped SaaS
Sarah Hum, our co-founder, is sharing year 7 highlights. She’s talking about AI, the economy, founder reflections, team dynamics, and more.
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Founder Stories
About Canny and our adventures in bootstrapping a startup
Starting a startup with your significant other: what it’s really like
Starting a business with your significant other can be really exciting. Is it always a good idea, though? Here’s how we do it and what works for us.
Canny’s guide to growing your team at your bootstrapped startup
Getting hiring right when bootstrapping is a challenging but critical task. Here’s how we approach startup hiring and how you can do it too.
Canny cottage near Toronto: post-retreat reflections
Let’s go behind the scenes of our latest team retreat near Toronto. We’ll tell you all about the planning, execution, and lessons we learned from this experience.
How design can help your startup stand out: tips from a designer founder
I’m Sarah Hum – a designer co-founder at Canny. Here’s how design principles guide our product development. And here’s how you can use them for your startup!
Canny in Japan: post-retreat reflections + videos & tips for team retreats
We flew 14 team members from 10 different cities to Tokyo. We spent 9 days together working, exploring, singing, and brainstorming. Here’s what went down.
Canny year 7: welcoming 4 new cannisters!
We still can’t fully comprehend it, but Canny’s team is 18 people (we call ourselves “cannisters”) now! We want to introduce some of our newest cannisters.
How to handle productivity guilt as a SaaS founder
Startup founders are built to doubt themselves. So here are a few tips on how to handle productivity guilt and regain your confidence.
Meet Canny’s Class of 2022!
Canny grew a lot in 2022. Not only are we working with more companies than ever, we have also built a ton of new features. To do all of that, we needed to grow our team… a lot. Get to know our new team members in this post.