Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

By far, the majority of new businesses I know are self-funding (bootstrapped) from your own savings and prior assets. Pick a name, location, and marketing strategy early. It helps to advertise your new presence with a grand opening, viral video, and traditional advertising to highlight entry into the arena.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

“Marketing sources have a half-life.&#. To understand the idea of traffic half-life, look at this Google Analytics screen shot from 6 weeks ago for traffic coming from Hacker News : Notice the spike and the decay. They’re “new,&# “revolutionary&# and “viral.&# I read this quote a few weeks ago.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2017

I’ve spent most of my corporate career in online acquisition marketing and while the numbers always start out nice, there will always be a ceiling of how much profitable marketing one can do through the web. We started small and tested the market for retail before jumping right in to a long term commercial lease.

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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]. 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Why Do Some People Learn Faster?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. Now, the fully bootstrapped company is turning 60% of its demos into paid customers and hitting $2.5 million in revenue a year. .

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. Now, the fully bootstrapped company is turning 60% of its demos into paid customers and hitting $2.5 million in revenue a year. .

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

A description of your target market or the different market segments you’re targeting. If you don’t know how to define your target market, read Tim Berry’s article on how to do it, or read this article that explains what target marketing is and how to use it to your advantage. How to Do Market Research.

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