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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. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.”

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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. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.”

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. We see Bizosys as a promising niche vendor with demonstrated capabilities in creative bootstrapping. RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.

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Speed Kills: Bootstrapping Activity in Your Network

This is going to be BIG.

Sometimes you do this with server architecture, and other times you do it with community architecture. I once heard that the number one way to improve conversion and traffic on your site is to make it lightning fast.

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5 Startup Steps to finding & working with freelancers

nickpoint.co.uk

We found Keegan through 99Designs and used him for our logo , business cards , Launch page and a new blog for Bootstrapping. Rules of engagement – My co-founder Simon has done a fantastic job in the architecture and prototyping of our new website monitoring app. - Keegan is one of the best freelancers we’ve worked with.

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Salvage Bazaar

Start Up Blog

It also has a strong play with the move towards gentrification of housing in inner city areas, as well as green / eco requirements emerging in the architecture scene. It’s a very nice addendum to the existing established real estate websites in most markets such as www.realestate.com.au in Australia. So a feel a bit like a proud uncle.

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

Relational architecture (a collection of data organized as a set of formally described tables) in the first place—all new stuff, and technically compelling. Larry was loathe to sell any of the company stock; he generally took a dim view of VCs and preferred to bootstrap. There we were, right under their noses!