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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. Product Launch After some financing-related delays, the products went on sale in Europe and Asia in the summer of 2008. What follows are solely his opinions.

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Ten Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups

Software By Rob

Source code hosting for companies and open-source projects, Github is used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories. Founded in 2008, GitHub offers public and private source code hosting to companies and open source projects using either git or subversion. Startup #4: Github.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. Money and Finance Lists. Open Source Lists. And maybe you heard of a tiny Linux-based mobile software designer Google bought in 2005, called Android Inc.? Health and Environment Related Lists. Jobs Lists.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

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. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier.