The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Is it cheaper for them to design and experiment with their own technology from scratch, or to acquire something existing and proven? Whether a brand new bootstrapped startup or corporate giant, your altitude, sustainability, and traction has everything to do with your team. Acquiring revenues can be very important. Your Brand.

Intellectual Property 101

Intellectual Property IP Acquisition Startup 101

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding. As you guys at [COMPANY] are creating lots of ads with similar imagery, I thought you might be interested in learning how to run experiments and automate new ad combinations without the hefty design fees. Cheers, [SIGNATURE].

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Audience Non-Compete Distribution Channel 127

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. Every company has a forecast for how it will get to an arbitrary $100 million in revenue and they all hit it on year five. How to Hack the Investment World. The stages of funding.

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 2: Defining and Testing the Story…Start Out By Admitting You’re Wrong, A Lean Business Plan Template, Problem, Solution, Key Metrics, Unique Value Proposition and Unfair Advantages, Channels, Customer Segments, Cost Structure and Revenue Streams. Chapter 3: Telling the Story to Your Investors…The Business Plan is Dead.

Startup 95

Startup Advisory Board Elevator Pitch Forecast 95

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 1, 2012

Sacha demonstrated the benefits of selling many copies of an eBook at a low price, while Jarrod pointed out the advantages of higher prices, bringing in more revenue with 1/6th the number of units sold. In that case, A can’t keep growing forever, so its revenue is limited, which is a bad spot. maximizing per-unit profitability).

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Customer Revenue Acquisition Cofounder 320

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage.

Investment Bankers 241

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Drew Myler is Interaction Designer at Signal , a Chicago-based provider of mobile marketing technology. A company lives and dies by its revenue stream, especially when trying to bootstrap the business. A year ago, we wanted to see more traction with online acquisition. Pricing a product is so. What’s the product worth?

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Churn Rate Product Chicago Bootstrapping 136

www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Entrepreneurs, which by definition are stubborn entities are therefore finding creative and cheap ways to bootstrap their startups. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize.

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Bootstrapping Italy Sweat Equity Europe 49

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage.

Investment Bankers 231

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the heels of seeing the 10% influencer base increase the referrals process yielded, the team at Intellifluence pushed to create a brand-to-brand referral program as well, intent on creating user acquisition flywheels wherever possible. What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 118

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage.

Venture Capital 171

Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

Gust

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Or is it still possible to bootstrap and build a company organically? But this just illustrates the point that all sorts of businesses built on personal expertise – design skills, niche knowledge, industry relationships, etc. A gigantic percentage of startup literature concerns how to raise capital.

Intellectual Property 127

Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Dilution Bootstrapping 127

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

They should be built organically, bootstrapped, and get to sustainability. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits). It would go a long way in validating his assumptions and possibly also bring in customer revenues if the value proposition really resonates. Investors are optional in this equation. CricketWeekly.

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Incubator Silicon Valley Idaho Entrepreneur 116

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

Spencer Fry

JUNE 29, 2011

You may see a lot of signups by a certain type of user, but that cohort may bring in only half the revenue of another cohort that may provide fewer total signups. We're all familiar with the idea of viral user acquisition: Your current users invite other users to use your service. This kind of data is especially valuable.

Philippines 77

Philippines Viral Bootstrapping Europe 77

Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2015

You’ll also want to customize your look through WordPress themes or graphic design. The site 99 Designs has a logo and website starter package that lets you get a full package for $499. 99Designs has multiple packages to choose from whether you’re looking for a logo design or a flyer. Total spent: $667.99. Your marketing.

New York City 60

New York City Web New York San Francisco 60

ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Total revenue – Yes total revenue is generally a vanity metric. Great you’ve got revenue. Get more revenue? Just this week I literally designed and sent a survey to people for a new idea I’m working on within a hour using Google Drive Forms. Great, what action do you take now? Auto follow more people?

Metrics 111

Metrics Analytics Aggregator Revenue 111

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

” So I’m looking at it, and the first thing I think is the design is simple. Edwin: Would I be able to attract other people if the design would be different? Jason: Some people think the design matters a lot more than that. I think this looks like no designer made this, right? And that’s probably good.

Technical Cofounder 220

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Occipital — makers of the Structure Sensor for 3-D data acquisition. Industrial Design: Design matters. Design is a key component of the product and could well become the reason why people buy your product over a competitor’s product. Coin — a programmable payment device in a credit card form factor.

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! Some things.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The approach involves going to a source of (often public) data and finding out how many X’s there are in the world, where X is your target consumer…be it a barber shop, web design firm or male under the age of 34. Maybe we can’t rely on our freemium, advertising-based, viral revenue model, though.

Marketing 64

Marketing Software Review Matching Bootstrapping 64

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Here’s the deal: I work in the bootstrapped startup world and in this arena you don’t need $500k to build a product. Or all of your logo design, application and sales site design, HTML and CSS…and you’ll have several thousand left over for an epic launch party the day you go live. But who needs revenue?)

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Equity Software Review RSS Widget 42

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them. Programmers feel exploited when they build out a product that is successful but are reluctant to admit they wouldn’t have been able to design the product themselves.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Enigmai’s flagship product, Enigmai Business Suite (EBS) is a web based application generically designed for for dynamic working environments that need to manage many employees such as hospitals, restaurants, hotels, schools and manufacturing companies. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. How much do you charge?

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Enigmai’s flagship product, Enigmai Business Suite (EBS) is a web based application generically designed for for dynamic working environments that need to manage many employees such as hospitals, restaurants, hotels, schools and manufacturing companies. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. How much do you charge?

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Enigmai’s flagship product, Enigmai Business Suite (EBS) is a web based application generically designed for for dynamic working environments that need to manage many employees such as hospitals, restaurants, hotels, schools and manufacturing companies. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. How much do you charge?

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Web Design/Tech Services. Software. -

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. 1M/1M Program has a bold mission. This is where numerous ventures fail.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. They’ve heard rules of thumb like “A growing software company is worth 5 times their trailing 12-months revenue.&# Even narrowing the field as much as feasible, revenue multiples varied between 1.2x Profit multiples varied even more.

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Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260