A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. OneBox.com — On $60m invested, sold for $850m 18 months after launch to J2 just before market crash — score! Note that some of those companies were bootstrapped, some bootstrapped and took money later, and some had huge funding from the start.

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Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

Four years after founding and bootstrapping Mucker Capital , we are pleased to announce the close of a new $45 million fund, Mucker III. We’ve been doing Internet stuff our whole careers, since the graphical web became a mass-market, commercial medium in the 1990s. We’ve ridden the ups and downs of economic cycles.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society. Blitzscaling is a response to market dynamics, not the cause.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The IPO markets have been tough, and late stage investors are realizing their unicorns actually are just My Little Ponies in a Halloween costume. In 2000, we had the dot com bust. If you don’t have the numbers at all, I would go heads down right now and bootstrap to get them. What is different between now and 2008?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2012

David Heinemeier Hansson doesn’t deserve to be alive either for instance — he makes millions of dollars at his bootstrapped, profitable, beloved business , he’s honored by geeks for creating Ruby on Rails , he’s a New York Times best-selling author and a race car driver, and all this with a 30-hour work-week.

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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. Today, concepts are generated and tomorrow morning they are brought to market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion.

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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). But this discipline also means that the product fit to market tends to be very good - you don't end up with solutions looking for problems. Photo by LotusHead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.

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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. Ken Evoy , and it came after I had spent two YEARS as an information marketer. So I decided they would always be less than my earnings! Now, looking back, that was probably not a smart decision.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). You can bootstrap your way into existence. Kudos to John for an excellent pitch.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I first met Jeff about 8 years ago when he was finishing his first year at the Stanford GSB and was beginning to raise money for a business plan he developed for a secondary market ticket exchange. Bootstrapping 101. I liked the founders and considered making a personal investment, but ended up passing. February 15, 2008 2:08 PM.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

One reason its so brutal is simply the brutality of markets. Markets are less forgiving.Customers dont care how hard you worked, only whether you solvedtheir problems. Theresnothing like an efficient market. You get the opposite of the damping that thefear/greed balance usually produces in markets.

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

Growth stage investors are usually the Series B or C investors who come in when the product is in the market but there is little or no revenue and the team is probably in the 20-something range with the goal to ramp it up to 40-50 employees with the new money, build out a sales team, etc. But some will be saved.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Marketing Services. stock quotes reflect trading in all markets and are delayed at least 15 minutes.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

VC Cafe interviewed Engimai’s founder and CEO Adir Iakya to learn more about what it takes to bootstrap a SaaS business and how Enigmai is planning to go to market. It took me half a year to find Ophir and Haim [ Haim Pekel , sales and marketing]. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. Also, define your market.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

VC Cafe interviewed Engimai’s founder and CEO Adir Iakya to learn more about what it takes to bootstrap a SaaS business and how Enigmai is planning to go to market. It took me half a year to find Ophir and Haim [ Haim Pekel , sales and marketing]. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. Also, define your market.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Since there are hundreds of new apps coming on the market every year, we figured it was time for an update. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. NetBooks – Marketing, sales, inventory and financial control in one place.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then five years later computers became — they dropped half in price and then the big insurance companies could buy them, and that’s when Thomas Watson, who ran IBM at the time, was quoted as saying, “There’s only a market need in the world for five computers.”. So GoodData is at the intersection of kind of marketing and business.

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