blog.captainrecruiter.com
MARCH 8, 2012
Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.
K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. I got my greencard approval in 2001, a few months after 9/11.
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Tim Keane
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
The circa 2001 movie about the meteoric crash of govworks.com? When Google Analytics was Urchin theres a great story about how they needed a "Windows" version within three (weekend) days that the engineers said was "impossible." The circa 2001 movie about the meteoric crash of govworks.com? Bootstrapping.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 10, 2013
Of course, Excite also went bankrupt in 2001, so maybe five is a terrible number? Since we bootstrapped Backblaze, early on we would have months when the company did not have enough cash from sales to buy the additional servers it needed. Three of my cofounders are engineering masterminds (with various skillsets.)
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. Without a budget to spend on outsourcing content creation, buying domains and web hosting, and marketing the sites to rank well on search engines, this project would have been a non-starter.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 26, 2016
Despite being a bootstrapped company with little revenue, we over-invested in a central New York City office at a rate of 15% rent to revenue. By giving their engineers dedicated time each month to focus on side and personal projects, team members keep their creative juices flowing and stay motivated.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2011
Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. What is the best reporting structure for an engineering team.
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