Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2014

We recently funded Blinkfire Analytics using our FG Angels Syndicate. The CEO and founder, Steve Olechowski , was co-founder / COO of FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007. I was an investor and on the board of FeedBurner, which is how I got to know Steve.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 24, 2017

You never know—you may just get a potential investor out of it like Michael Litt , co-founder of Vidyard. However, most entrepreneurs do eventually need investments from external sources, and can’t rely on bootstrapping forever. Many seasoned entrepreneurs are happy to share their knowledge and opinions—you just have to ask!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

It follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Nigel and Vaugn Caldon , co-founders of BallStar social network for basketball players. Nigel also teaches Data Analytics at General Assembly NYC. .

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We 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 spent $20k on their MVP.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. They use customer development , split-testing , and actionable analytics as vehicles for learning about how to make their vision successful. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Those general managers are entrepreneurs , too.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Q: Your co-founders have been working on some technology in their spare time. Some started with funding and some were bootstrap. The three developers who built TweetRiver, the flagship product of Mass Relevance, included my two co-founders, Brian Dainton and Eric Falcao, and Barry Cox (who will be an advisor to the company).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We 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 spent $20k on their MVP.

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I’m a very risk adverse entrepreneur as a result of bootstrapping my first three businesses, almost failing on the fourth (Coremetrics) due to market timing (I was too early and didn’t predict the dot-com bust) and its overcapitalization, and being a mostly customer funded and very capital efficient on the fifth (Bazaarvoice). was failing.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Abell, New York Bureau Chief for Wired.com Panelists: - Tony Jebara, Associate Professor Computer Science, Columbia University & Chief Scientist at Sense Networks - Chris Dixon, Co-founder, CEO at Hunch - Denis Crowley, Founder and CEO of Foursquare Exploring trends in lifecasting and the proliferation of location based services.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer. make that fourteen years now).

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? Here are 10 bootstrapped companies that did it on their own with no outside funding. Looking back on their previous experiences working at startup companies, the founders decided to bootstrap their business in lieu of seeking outside funding. Startup #1: Goldstar.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

“part of the uniqueness of Linktree is its deceptively simple design” According to one of the co-founders, Alex Zaccaria, Linktree’s site was developed in 6 hours but was bootstrapped and cash flow positive from the very beginning. ” Bootstrapped and Global from Day One: The Story of Linktree.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 19, 2013

As if bootstrapped startups already didn’t have enough on their plates , they face an additional, major challenge that no amount of engineering or business acumen can adequately overcome: Naming their company. A prime example of this is Reach.ly , a real-time analytics service for e-commerce businesses. “We

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

By Alan Lobock, co-founder, Worthworm. That may be why many entrepreneurs, to their misfortune, often reject the analytical process altogether and simply come up with the amount of ownership they are willing to exchange for an investment, not even realizing that in doing so they establish the venture’s PMV.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 25, 2013

Bronson is a co-founder and host of Growth Hacker TV , the only educational platform focused exclusively on helping startups grow by acquiring, retaining, and monetizing users. Founders sometimes assume that they need an influx of cash to truly grow a product. If you’re bootstrapping it’s an obvious choice. Not LTV/CAC.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 20, 2013

Bronson is a co-founder and host of Growth Hacker TV , the only educational platform focused exclusively on helping startups acquire, retain, and monetize users. Founders sometimes assume that they need an influx of cash to truly grow a product. If you’re bootstrapping it’s an obvious choice. Think Partnerships.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So GoodData is an actual easy-to-use analytics package. Walmart’s advantage in logistics and in pricing and in data analytics was just so great that they could kill small retailers at will. It’s very rare that they actually successfully bootstrapped, because it’s just so hard to do if you can’t invest any money.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 25, 2013

Bronson is a co-founder and host of Growth Hacker TV , the only educational platform focused exclusively on helping startups grow by acquiring, retaining, and monetizing users. Founders sometimes assume that they need an influx of cash to truly grow a product. If you’re bootstrapping it’s an obvious choice. Not LTV/CAC.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2012

You know… The ones where the founder being interviewed had an arsenal of resources available that others will never have… How can this story possibly be relatable to the average bootstrapping entrepreneur? I don’t know Ashton and Demi.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Google Analytics. SEO and Analytics Tutorials.

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