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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Ryan Smith. Lane Merrifield.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Ryan Smith. Lane Merrifield.

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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. 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.

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From Business Guy to Programmer

Spencer Fry

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. I've co-founded a handful of small businesses as a non-technical co-founder, TypeFrag and Carbonmade being the most successful. Why the change of heart?

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Photo by LotusHead. So VCs will need to invest.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. and I have been a.Net consultant since then at Readify. Too many smart people liked it.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. and I have been a.Net consultant since then at Readify. Too many smart people liked it.

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