Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2017

Starting in 2011 and over the course of four years, my startup pivoted from an online community tool, to a live sales and support tool, to an outreach platform for businesses, to finally finding its identity in a campaigning and advocacy tool. Finding our niche with the campaigning tool. Why did it fail? What is it? How did it help?

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Reporters aren’t here to advertise for you. Your crowdfunding campaign. Your crowdfunding campaign hit it out of the park. Offer reporters an exclusive on the successful, viral campaign that got you there, or a behind-the-scenes look at what your product does and how you’ll deliver on this huge campaign’s promises.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

RSVP: [link] Tuesday, February 2nd 9AM Crowdsourcery Potions 101: Why Some Marketing Potions Fail and Others Thrive, Hosted By JWT Some have predicted that crowdsourcing is the future of the marketing, advertising and industrial design industry. Usually these discussions focus on Marketing, PR, Customer Service or an Agency.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. On the one hand, bootstrapping your business gives you much more control over it. Develop a landing page, do some lightweight advertising, and generally reach out to as many potential customers as you can.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. 12 inspiring marketing campaigns from Google | Econsultancy – crowdspring.co/1fn1hcw. A special report from The Economist on Tech Startups. Here’s the full PDF – crowdspring.co/1cNY3hP.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Most people who bootstrap their business do it on their personal credit card and if yours are maxed out from the day you start your business you’re going nowhere fast. Know that you’re going to have to invest some real money in your website and probably online advertising as well. Where do you find business ideas? I love Indiegogo.

Social Media 60

Social Media Small Business Software Review Technical Review 60

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. We started with some clumsy PR—badgering our clients to mention us in their content in exchange for some free work on their websites. We could either grab a slice of the established market or carve out a new one (e.g., Needless to say, those efforts sucked.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Launch/Pre-order/Crowdfunding: Do you do a Kickstarter campaign for crowdfunding? Should you do a Self-starter campaign for pre-orders? advertising) on Facebook, Twitter, Google, and be preceded by a press and PR campaign to try and get coverage in the relevant press outlets and blogs.

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

But in that one discussion, I talk about HR; I talk about inventory management; I talk about local marketing campaigns. And standing out to a company that got $10 million dollars in funding even before they started Asana is going to be very hard if you bootstrap it with your savings. Jason: That’s called bootstrapping, right.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Ori had been working in advertising for 7 years but had been waiting to find the right start-up opportunity. When we were deciding what to call our new PR agency we started by writing down a bunch of words that describe what we do, that we felt passionate about. Thanks to Michael Harris, Uproar PR ! #15 No one else.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. We started with some clumsy PR—badgering our clients to mention us in their content in exchange for some free work on their websites. We could either grab a slice of the established market or carve out a new one (e.g., Needless to say, those efforts sucked.

Differentiation 48

Differentiation Non-Compete Audio Algorithm 48

sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. [link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO?

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

It is the B2B advertiser’s Mecca, but it is an undeserved market when it comes to user experience and consolidation of services. It’s great to see an early stage company bootstrapping and trying to make a difference in an area ripe for disruption. C onferences are big business. Is it big enough? We can help them.

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