A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
Robert has been working in software since 2005. SEO is extremely powerful, but it takes time. 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. He is a Ph.D. dropout who spent time working for Google.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. Note that some of those companies were bootstrapped, some bootstrapped and took money later, and some had huge funding from the start. The crap of it is, those VC’s who continue to invest in Nguyen are acting rationally.
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Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 27, 2017
As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. We saw people, they were just running into roadblocks whether it be content development, design, any myriad of subset of that SEO, which of course you’re having a nice focus on custom development. Brian Clark: Right.
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. In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. all at once.
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. In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. all at once.
Software By Rob
JANUARY 8, 2019
And we received offers of support from successful founders who have raised funding, bootstrapped, and those who’ve done both: +1 on that! And apparently, the message resonated… In less than 48 hours we received opt-ins from 3,800 founders, investors and onlookers. Would love to chat and see how/if we can help.
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. In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. all at once.
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