ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I pointed Zubair to a couple of case studies of bootstrapping using services to get more of his core product built; in parallel, I will help him pursue institutional funding. Bolpur is home to the Viswabharati university, as well as several other small engineering and professional colleges.

Cloud 117

Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We started our online backup company with five in 2008, and all five are still running the company today. Since we bootstrapped Backblaze, early on we would have months when the company did not have enough cash from sales to buy the additional servers it needed. Five is definitely the wrong answer. At least, that’s what I’ve heard.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Kenya Dilution 143

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

Despite being a bootstrapped company with little revenue, we over-invested in a central New York City office at a rate of 15% rent to revenue. There are also unforeseen disasters, such as the 2008 financial crisis, that businesses need to be agile enough to overcome. The truth is, it’s better to be more diverse in what you do.

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Software Review New York City Salary Employee 100

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Incubator 114

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If you have to raise money, try to do so as convertible notes.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

As far as customer acquisition is concerned, we discussed, again the power of organic search engine optimization. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Incubator 115

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. I recently wrote an article on this topic, calling all EDA entrepreneurs to build $5 million to $10 million to $20 million cash businesses that are self-financed, bootstrapped, and built organically. Read EDA Entrepreneurs: Build To Enjoy.

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Bootstrapping IP Silicon Valley India 113

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D. Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs mistakenly often engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. Numerous lessons.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Search engine optimization (SEO) can provide low cost opportunities for a startup to market its products and/or services. Startups – especially bootstrapped startups – typically don’t have funds to hire SEO experts and must find ways to execute SEO strategies on their own. Please leave them in the comments?

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Engineer Search SEO Startup 90

Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

WP Engine, Bumble, Kendra Scott?—?but It was started in 2008 at UT Austin, with a mission to spur entrepreneurship in students through an experiental, 3-day program where they effectively jumpstart the startup process. We’ve got powerhouses led by women here?—?WP It made me wish that I had this when I was in undergrad!

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Austin Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 57

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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Bootstrapping San Jose Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 124

blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. Enter recruiters or HR people.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). But really, are all those acquirers so stupid? Surely not.

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Retention 240

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 20, 2012

Erica Douglass bootstrapped her company and sold it for a million dollars while her friends were switching majors for the third time or dicking around at some entry-level job. And let’s suppose I started WP Engine at the same time. circa 2008.) She’s successful by any measure.

San Jose 233

San Jose Bootstrapping Hosting Engineer 233

Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

If you remember 2008, you’ll know what I’m talking about. But both my co-founder and I did have a natural understanding of systems and how to hack them… so we thought we would be clever and try to engineer the process. Basically, it’s the anti-me job, and after three months I started to look for the next thing.

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Cofounder Video Texas Software Review 48

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

She partnered with Rett Clevenger who at that time was an online media manager for a large e-commerce site, to launch Steals.com in April 2008. Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. The revenue in 2012 was $16.4

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Silicon Valley Utah India Massachusetts 259

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Well, that’s fine as far as it goes but when you’re a startup and you don’t have customers yet you need a way to bootstrap and that can feel awfully chaotic and wasteful. Unfortunately, many startups still use it as an excuse to maintain the artificial separation between the marketing/business team and the engineering team.

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Agile Customer Development Developer San Francisco 111

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. Gnosis India.

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Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 115

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping 117

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

As someone who has bootstrapped a software company ([link] and funded it through selling software and consulting to customers, I certainly know what it means to live lean and Ive even taken your advice ([link] I just wish I was in the Bay area and could come by "office hours". (a Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Software Engineering 40

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., So heres the question that I pose to you - our startup helps software companies develop a scalable revenue engine in the form of software-specific hardware devices. April 15, 2009 3:48 PM Knowist said.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. Unfortunately, most decisions that confront startups lack a definitive right answer.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. Cash is tight.

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Lean San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 60

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

This will achieve both customer intimacy and bootstrap funding from customers. Next, Yossi Dan from Raanana, Israel, presented TicTacDo , which consists of an engine that can mine data from various professional networks and find high value business opportunities for users. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

India 124

India Entrepreneur Intellectual Property 124

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. System-Sea. Discuss.

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Networking Partner Entrepreneur Bootstrapping 115

Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Thursday, December 18, 2008. The NIF brings together students from all parts of the university (business, computer science, mechanical engineering, design, life science, etc.) This was a collaboration between students in industrial design, electrical engineering and business. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14).

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San Jose Silicon Valley Technical Review Angel Investor 28

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

One of them that was in that book was called engineering as marketing, which make sense to us, our customers are engineers, and so basically the point of that was to build a tool that our customers could use, that they would be searching for this tool. In 2008, and 2009, we were really starting to grow.

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Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Developers 39

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

Startup 113

Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator 113

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. Spencer needs to think through a strategy for bootstrapping that phase. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. You have to finance the period of traffic building that is pretty much red-ink financing.

Silicon Valley 105

Silicon Valley Columbus Ohio Incubator 105

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization.

San Francisco 120

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

It could be a good business to bootstrap the social/mobile edutainment business with. I don't see a problem with this, especially since the services model generates cash early on, and he can practice our tried-and-true model of bootstrapping using services! From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

Malaysia 114

Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

India 115

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115