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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. What is bootstrapping? So, what does it mean to bootstrap a company? Bootstrapping involves launching a business on a low budget. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0,

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"What's Next in Tech" Event in Boston

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You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. As an entrepreneur it means bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap. Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. And there's DailyMotion , which is eating into YouTube's market share and had a 70% jump in US traffic in 2009. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders?

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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If you want to build a business that requires software, be prepared to invest a little money. I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. The business geek needed a working software prototype and the programmer needed experience. ► 2009. (78).