A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 11, 2017
I started Smart Bear in a recession (2002) and it went great. Whether you’re bootstrapping like I did with Smart Bear or raising tens of millions of dollars as we did at WP Engine, this is the right question. The answer is always yes. But it’s the wrong question.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 8, 2016
Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. We bootstrapped it. Qualtrics has 8500 customers today, but back in his father’s basement in 2002, things weren’t so rosy. And download any of the past shows here.).
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 8, 2016
Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. We bootstrapped it. Qualtrics has 8500 customers today, but back in his father’s basement in 2002, things weren’t so rosy. And download any of the past shows here.).
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 20, 2012
Erica Douglass bootstrapped her company and sold it for a million dollars while her friends were switching majors for the third time or dicking around at some entry-level job. To see why, let’s wind the clock back to 2002 when Erica started her hosting company, Simpli. She’s successful by any measure. circa 2008.)
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2009
I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. 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. It was a disaster.
Spencer Fry
APRIL 12, 2012
and How to Bootstrap among others. Back in what seems like forever ago, I started freshman year of college in 2002 with the full intention of majoring in Computer Science. Since I began writing several years ago, I've written exclusively about the business side of startups; my most popular articles being What's a Non-Programmer To Do?
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 the enterprise software bootstrapping past was based on upfront license fees where the customer took the financing risk. SaaS transfers risk from the buyer to the seller.
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