Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In addition, you can find low cost or even free solutions for marketing and advertising. Entrepreneurial social networking. Using social media is one of the most basic marketing tactics across verticals – but it is also something that is typically overlooked by entrepreneurs and startup founders.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

Between the various things I’ve been doing and my own efforts I started noticing just how much time in this business goes into context work — all of the stuff besides the core of what your are building — and how hard it is, how much you have to sacrifice, especially if you are bootstrapping.

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Spencer Fry

MAY 11, 2011

A quick Google search for "bootstrap marketing" brings up a bunch of useless nonsense. The results are either in the form of "Top 10 Bootstrap Marketing Tips" or "Bootstrap Marketing 101" guides. So here are some things you can do that won't cost you a penny and will hopefully give you an "aha" moment.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

August 20, 2011 by Lauren Drell 1 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2016

Many business opportunities, like this one, need thousands or millions of existing users before new users and advertisers are interested to pay real money. In reality, dating is a form of social networking, so Facebook could easily enhance their services in this direction, if the market traction of others was evident.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Ximdesk – Collaboration and social networking platform for enterprise.

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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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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. I can switch to SaaS for less than the cost of the maintenance on the old software.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 21, 2015

Of course, design specialists are a great resource to have on a team – but, for many earlier-stage businesses, increased costs and headcount may not be ideal. Even better, once completed, ThingLink lets you tag your piece and share with your social network along with their own community. Go forth and design.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform allows startups to access investors, and has also become a resource for investors looking to boost dealflow and connect with other investors. For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Firesheep In Wolves’ Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily NSFW: Changing the world via Twitter? The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. Might be kinda large market.,

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. This execution was actually presented in the board room by executives who thought it was a genuine advertisement by them. Work and social life are being re-integrated.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Thinking of your project in milestones makes all the difference.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Similarly, I just got a pitch for a startup providing telehealth access that specialized in allergies—which I was pretty excited about until they told me that pharmaceutical companies were fronting the cost of their marketing. More advertisers will feel comfortable spending money on it. But second, it just makes the product better.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Social/Sharing. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. tells you how much adwords cost. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. hire low-cost international engineering talent.

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