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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #8: Bootstrap or VC?

Austin Startup

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Bootstrap Austin, started by Bijoy Goswami. The original Bootstrap Austin was truly special and Bijoy did an amazing job bringing together some terrific entrepreneurs.

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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Robert has been working in software since 2005. Search Engine Marketing and online ads on the other hand can be set up in minutes. Those higher costs make learning to write ads, manage campaigns, A/B test, and design landing pages a very expensive activity for an early stage, bootstrapping startup. (Powered by LaunchBit ).

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). Note that some of those companies were bootstrapped, some bootstrapped and took money later, and some had huge funding from the start.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. Android Backlash.

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Bootstrap Marketing

Spencer Fry

A quick Google search for "bootstrap marketing" brings up a bunch of useless nonsense. The results are either in the form of "Top 10 Bootstrap Marketing Tips" or "Bootstrap Marketing 101" guides. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is unquestionably a first step. Not to mention that all the ads are hurting my eyes.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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Autumn Dynasty – A (Brush) Stroke Of Success

YoungUpstarts

The Singapore video games industry grew from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007 , and the sector currently comprises of around 60 games development, publishing and services-related companies, featuring various major global industry players such as Electronic Arts, LucasArts, Tecmo Koei, and Ubisoft. Bootstrapping to Success.

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