Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

In fact, any bootstrapped company should be aiming for slow, consistent growth rather than explosive growth. Don’t use company property or Internet, ever - Another clause in most employment agreements is that anything you do physically at work, or on software and equipment owned by the company (e.g. You don’t need funding.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2011

As a maven of the Macintosh API and still willing to admit it, I landed lots of small contracting jobs fixing up code that other developers wouldn’t touch. These are folks with big requirements — tens of millions of monthly page-views, traffic spikes, custom code, perfect up-time, and 24/7 support.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. Re/code – crowdspring.co/1hYEli4.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I now has 350+ customers who spend between $6k to $17k a year to use their software, depending on the size of the company. Their growth since their MVP release in 2016?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Marketing, advertising, positioning — they’re all forms of persuasive writing, just like an op-ed in the New York Times. So I think the ideal customer is: SaaS, ISV, Web Products. ” But “Web Products” is neither a market nor a target customer. click and competed with no other advertisers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I now has 350+ customers who spend between $6k to $17k a year to use their software, depending on the size of the company. Their growth since their MVP release in 2016?

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Web Design. Web Development. So You’re Going To Start A Huge New Web Project. Code clean. Everyone is happier when the code we interact with is clean and consistant. The web app Beanstalk does git repository hosting and deployment. Performance is often this thing web teams do "later on."

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Don’t forget to sign up for the wonderful Business of Software conference to hear Jason speak in person. So it’s property management software? Our software will do that. I don’t get this.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

of businesses are actively seeking & collecting customer reviews on an ongoing basis. Consider the amount of money spent on Super Bowl advertisements. Does this type of advertisement really pay off? …it seems that a higher ROI may lean in the favor of word-of-mouth advertising. image source. image source.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding | The Next Web – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R. You Can’t Beat Habit – crowdspring.co/1dlSylX.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

For example, Palo Alto Software focuses primarily on helping small businesses realize their dreams of starting a business. Many people reading this guide will already have an idea of what that is – perhaps a tutoring agency, or a restaurant, or a software company. Week 1 – Get the ball rolling.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why the Best Entrepreneurs and Creators are Humble | The Next Web - crowdspring.co/1e9b5t3. Here’s the Data | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1lLgAjK.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. This requires a visual web-editor (assuming you’re building a web-application).

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

I’ve known Landon for about a dozen years and I’ve really watched the evolution of Landon and his buddy starting a company going out there trying to figure out how to sell it to now a hundred people in the campus in Santa Barbara with a piece of software that is really second to none in the marketing automation space.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Responsive Web Design Helps People Buy Your Product | Inc – crowdspring.co/1psW8QW. Why Responsive Web Design Helps People Buy Your Product | Inc – crowdspring.co/1psW8QW.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Jason: Okay, so that’s a very small company in which the CEO is pulling out the credit card for meeting software because even people with a hundred people, the CEO is not the person pulling out a credit card for the meeting software. I don’t care about what the software looks like yet. Edwin: I tend to disagree.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. Funding startups that rely on advertising (by @bijan) – [link]. – [link]. Quora – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why You Need Marketing Analytics, Not Web Analytics – [link]. Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link].

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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. Of course, the effectiveness of your funnel drops exponentially when you move to mass advertising.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Startup Advice: Lessons Learned from Building a Development Team View What links here Posted by Fan Bi on July 19th, 2009 Over the past few months, I’ve explored a bunch of different ways to develop a website without a web developer on the Blank Label team. On a bootstrapped budget free is great. Originally.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Advertising. Computer Software. Management. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. Food & Tobacco. Hospitality. Industrial Goods & Services. September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. NAME Comcast.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above is one of a number of fun and creative advertisements. “With luck the latest web bubble will do less damage than its predecessor&# – [link].

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software. Here’s the deal: I work in the bootstrapped startup world and in this arena you don’t need $500k to build a product.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. What did you do again?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Google buzz Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Expert Rackspace Hosting MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS ConVerdge Communities About Us Submit a Tip!

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Those tools do not integrate as seamlessly with e-mail as advertised. At Smart Bear we were selling a code review tool, and if you paid $600 for Perforce, it was very hard for me to charge $600 hundred for an add-on to Perforce that did code review. The other is, ‘Don’t forget about bootstrapping.’

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 essential tools to get your new web-app off the ground – [link]. Why software startups decide to patent … or not – [link].

Social Media 92

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Web Entrepreneur’s Customer Service Toolbox: 100 Hacks and Resources – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport – [link].

Social Media 96

Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

The Web Entrepreneur’s Customer Service Toolbox: 100 Hacks and Resources – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport – [link]. The Web Entrepreneur’s Customer Service Toolbox: 100 Hacks and Resources – [link]. How Social Media Has Radically Altered Advertising – [link].

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

120+ Creative Advertisements - [link]. 35+ Creative advertising For Creative Peoples - [link]. The Principle of Contrast in Web Design – [link]. 20 Examples of using the Color Orange in Web Design – [link]. Showcase Of Web Design In Germany - [link]. Showcase Of Web Design In Germany - [link].

Social Media 92

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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