A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. Price is not an exercise in maximizing some micro-economic supply/demand curve, slapped post-facto onto the product. Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g. Think: GoDaddy). This is a hard slog.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

Days before the conference started, I was asked (and felt honored) to lead two workshops on bootstrapping vs. raising money. Having started and sold 3 successful bootstrapped businesses, and am now running 1 venture capital backed business ( Coach ), this is a topic I know a thing or two about. Competition is everywhere. You’ve raised.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Believe it or not, there was a time when an aspiring entrepreneur would come up with a concept, develop a detailed business plan, prototype and refine the concept, seek a credit line from a bank, and then give it a go by bringing the concept to market. Oh how times have changed. That’s the right way to ride the wave of opportunity.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). It is equally true for the brilliant developer who has to migrate to becoming a leader of managers. Mark Suster writes very well about this trade-off/dilemma.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

It’s also financially rewarding, with up to $2000 in rewards for a great idea. For questioners, it provides an instant, on-demand team of experts who can answer those difficult questions. GuruStorms has been completely bootstrapped thus far. It’s online and ad hoc, so they can fit it in when they have time.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

Investment Capital When setting out to launch my online business, I had to bootstrap my way and set a limit on expenses. More recently, I worked on a new project to develop 50 niche websites, all at once. At other times, it gets totally decimated by new developments. So I decided they would always be less than my earnings!

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Bootstrapping (= Consulting) Some would-be founders may by now be thinking, why deal with investorsat all? We could not have bootstrapped Viaweb, for example. Bootstrapping sounds great in principle, but this apparently verdantterritory is one from which few startups emerge alive. Startupslive or die on morale.

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