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Dual Founders Manage Technology Startups Better

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Use questions to test analytical and problem solving ability. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.”

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Growth Acceleration Partners Says Diversity and Inclusion is Key to its Success as a Custom Software Developer

SiliconHills

Instead of seeking venture capital, Joyce Durst, Co-Founder, and CEO of Growth Acceleration Partners decided to bootstrap the software development company. Growth Acceleration Partners, known as GAP, offers analytics, cloud, mobile and QA services.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

Racket is very “bare bones” at the moment in terms of editing abilities, analytics, social features etc. 31 employees according to Linkedin, but seems to be bootstrapped. Capuccino – an audio social network launched in July 2020 by French founders. Bootstrapped. Open Source.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6% of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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Non-Technical Entrepreneurs Need the Right Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Use questions to test analytical and problem solving ability. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.”

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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. Startups provide introductions and Tony and fellow panelists provide feedback in real-time.

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I think bootstrapping might be impossible for non-programmers

The Startup Toolkit

Attach google analytics to your site. Now you can bootstrap. Make it look nice. Start using github and put your code there. Buy a domain name and a hosting service and put your portfolio up at a real address, using git. Make sure they work on all major browsers and behave really well (e.g. That’s it.