Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Brian Clark: There’s two big developments that have happened in the last six months or so. As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. Developing your website is strategy now and developing your content is strategy and developing your SEO is strategy.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

That was the thought behind Meebos decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. So are referrals. The only stipulation? People would only get paid if the candidates got hired.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2012

While you do need some money to get started, you can seriously reduce the amount if you take advantage of some key bootstrapping strategies. More and more you’re starting to wonder, Should I just cut my losses and throw in the towel now? Not so fast. But ultimately, being undercapitalized was a great thing for Barefoot.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks. Bootstrapping 101. ► July. (1). ► May. (1).

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. Step 2: Rinse and Repeat. And Fri Davies from the Dynamite Circle has done this with his Magento add-ons.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. The post The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping first appeared on Rob Walling - Serial Entrepreneur. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. Step 2: Rinse and Repeat. And Fri Davies from the Dynamite Circle has done this with his Magento add-ons.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network.

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entrepreMusings

JUNE 6, 2011

Then when the bubble burst she bootstrapped the company until she was able to sell it to a publicly traded company in 2005. She has a track record for supporting new jobs especially in high tech, and recognizing that Austin is growing, she has always been willing to support development that makes sense.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie (CEO) and Dylan Smith (CFO), Box provides a secure content sharing platform where content can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone applications, among others, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

In fact, for a good laugh, I just went back and checked our accounting system, and at the end of one quarter in 2005, we were down to $143 cash on the balance sheet. Bootstrapping 101. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

A 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office indicates that textbook prices have outpaced inflation by more than 2-1 over the past two decades and account for 26% of tuition and fees at four-year public universities and nearly three-quarters of costs at community colleges. Bootstrapping 101. October 20, 2011 7:34 AM.

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Out of the 12,500 founders of these firms, 181 (1.7%) die at some point between starting up the firm and the end of 2005 (Hvide 6). Bootstrapping 101. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

In looking back at the old financials, at the end of Q2 2005, our cash balance was a whopping $546. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005. While bootstrapping, there are multiple options from doing as a side project, changing the business, raising angel or venture, etc. Bootstrapping 101.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Up to 2005 they were the only solution supported by all major browsers at the time. The 1140 Grid has not been updated “in more than a year” (January 2011 in github) but remains online with an invitation to use it as a starting point for future development. It begs the question, what does layout with CSS offer over tables?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The world has fundamentally changed — it’s a lean and mean entrepreneur’s playing field now — and too many young people have never developed the skills and the street smarts to compete. I know firsthand what it takes to bootstrap a business from the ground up. The marketplace we’re preparing our kids to enter doesn’t exist anymore.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2013

Despite its small size, Singapore is beginning to garner a reputation for developing and producing video games. Then there are other indie game developers like Touch Dimensions who develop exclusively for mobile platforms, such as real-time strategy (RTS) game Autumn Dynasty which was first developed on Apple’s iOS.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Paul Graham says : “ An advantage of consulting, as a way to develop a product, is that you know you’re making something at least one customer wants. 1 day ago Well, I'm up and running on Windows 7 now on my development box. Myth #3: I need a partner. I see this falsehood more than any other. 1 day ago Well, not most.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I don’t know any developers. These are the geniuses clogging up Craigslist’s “Computer Gigs&# with ads saying stuff like “Need iPhone Developer: Compensation: 30% of profits (when we get them)&# or “Ruby on Rails ROCKSTAR needed: $20/hr&# [link] Nils Noack Definitely a good read! I need money for the servers.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It was early in 2005 and the company was Facebook. link] We are developing a software technology that works on the web using cloud computing to build software 100X faster and reduce bugs and cut costs. Bootstrapping 101. Got me thinking back to one of the best start-up pitches I ever saw. October 18, 2010 2:41 PM. ► May.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t

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