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The leap from employee to entrepreneur – Small Business Spotlight

Up and Running

When one designer raised over $900,000 for his Kickstarter project, Su says, “Seeing that, it was sort of like a light bulb moment. million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. ” The competition did more than educate and put money in the bank for this otherwise bootstrapped startup.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: SignNow.com

crowdSPRING Blog

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. Coming from the financial world to the software world taught us a lot about bootstrapping and finding valuable outsourcing tools. This is how we found crowdSPRING to do some logo and website design work for us.

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IM Creator – High Class Websites for the Masses, with 126,000 Websites Created and Counting.

VC Cafe

IM Creator is gaining speed on its Israeli competitor Wix.com to become a leading WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web design website. Here is a 60-second tour of IM Creator: IM Creator is bootstrapped with $250k from the founder Jonathan Saragossi, and a few unknown angel investors. mo or $5.95/mo

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Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller shares how he built a $2 billion cloud startup from LA

The Next Web

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Even once it had access to capital, Cornerstone kept its bootstrap mindset. He stressed the importance of creating a startup’s culture by design, rather than by accident.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. I would love to attend one of the Lean Start-up Workshops, but unfortunately that would be difficult for me to do so financially. Cash is tight. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.