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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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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. Building Your Founder Reputation.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. 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. and Google.

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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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Software Startup Myths Debunked

www.singlefounder.com

Company founders don’t have the luxury of ‘diversifying their portfolio,’ so to speak. They work at their company until funding is pulled, it goes bust, it’s sold, etc… It’s hard to be the founder at multiple companies at the same time. 1 day ago Well, not most.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google App Engine.