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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Was it a case of needing Homework? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ?

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7 Tips To Secure Funding They Don’t Teach In Business School

YoungUpstarts

Caremerge’s technology and first-of-its-kind apps have transformed senior healthcare providing unprecedented coordination in patient care between institutions, patients and their families. In other words, you have done wonders while “bootstrapping.” The rise of technology has created new ways to raise capital.

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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

But online payment technology didn’t catch up with their vision, until now. By September that year they would launch what would be one of the first crowdfunding sites on the Internet. How successful have they been?

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Good stuff from Jason.

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

ReadWriteStart

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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The ultimate guide to bootstrapping hardware startups

The Next Web

In 2010, I started an exploration project based on a common hardware problem: short battery life in mobile devices. A Microsoft alumni and a hardware entrepreneur, Adam also moderates The Hardware Startup group on LinkedIn. In the midst of it all, we also kicked-off a successful Kickstarter campaign to help us get.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Statisco Economic Analytics.