A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. Today it would be near-impossible to bootstrap Smart Bear on those keywords. At Smart Bear, for example, I got my first 50 customers through AdWords. I bought ads for $0.05/click click and competed with no other advertisers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Founded in 2003, ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with the must have platform for intelligent marketing automation. So I mentioned in the intro that you have customers in over 170 countries today, but you essentially were bootstrapped in the very beginning. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Jason Vandeboom.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? Here are 10 bootstrapped companies that did it on their own with no outside funding. Looking back on their previous experiences working at startup companies, the founders decided to bootstrap their business in lieu of seeking outside funding. Startup #1: Goldstar.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Should you bootstrap? John (11:25): Yeah, I actually, I started my blog in 2003 that I talk about being in the right place at the right time. Should you raise funding? Who should you partner with? These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage. So we're just bringing it back to the individual.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Should you bootstrap? John Jantsch (13:37): Yeah, I actually, I started my blog in 2003 that I talk about being in the right place at the right time. And that's what made us think about like how we can help people to gain that kind of self-awareness. To know what kind of business to go for, to know what kind of strategy to go for.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. It had been bootstrap the whole way, and so we were still wanting to raise some capital partly to infuse more cash in the business, because we knew the business was going to continue to grow at a very fast pace. They were very much a luxury item.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. “We create as much information in 2 days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003″ – [link]. Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur – [link]. Legal risks and dangers of $99 logo stores – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

— Frank Sculli co-founded of BioDigital , in 2003 to build a kind of flight simulator for doctors that would be used to train them in specific medical procedures. When you’re bootstrapping things and you know you’re just, you’re constantly weighing where you should invest your money and highly recommend legal (advice).It’s

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). As Seth said, the first meebo idea he came up with was in 2003. From Nothing To Something.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. In this post, we show you how to go from idea to specified product.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. It’s great to see an early stage company bootstrapping and trying to make a difference in an area ripe for disruption. The conversation was in Hebrew, so hopefully nothing got “lost in translation&#.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. → Learn More.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Fundraising: Fog Creek was bootstrapped. But I loved reading them and so did my team. WoW and social gaming addiction.

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