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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Posted by: Peter Cooper | September 10, 2007 7:23 AM It wouldve been nice to hear a mention, or at least suggestion, of the role open source software plays in the development process - even if to say it shouldnt be used. Posted by: Dave | September 10, 2007 7:44 AM Hey Peter.

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Has the individual investor learned a lesson?

BeyondVC

million of revenue in 2003 with a net loss of $4.1 It will tell us whether or not speculation will run rampant again. As you know, I do find Linux on the desktop intriguing. That does not mean that I believe this is the year and that you should go public now on $2.1

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Ten Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups

Software By Rob

By generating a steady revenue from consulting projects and sales, the founders were able to spend time growing their business slowly. Today, Litmus has had over 30,000 customers, 1 million+ in revenue, and is growing by around 10% a month. Today, SparkFun has a wide following and boasts over $10 million in revenue.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. Take the top 10 largest tech innovators (take your pick of largest by revenue or largest by idea) of the last 20 years in Silicon Valley. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products?

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. Yair Margolin: Promotion – banner ads placement (campaigns ,impressions, clicks ) , banner ad packages for companies to advertise on bizme2 community as well as affiliate revenue on bookings made through the site.

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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. Setting a value is always difficult especially when you come across so many companies that are pre-revenue and sometimes pre-monetization strategy. Open Source Lists. July 18, 2012 10:26:22. Jobs Lists.