SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

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. What parts Agile addresses and the big problems with Agile for early-stage startups?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. It details a landscape founders like me are excited to sink their teeth into? Of course not!

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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).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

along with the contributions of dozens if not hundreds of founders, entrepreneurs and investors, to build out the canon for the startup. By contrast, the bootstrap startup wants to acquire customers that can pay enough to fund growth, or to keep the lights on while development ensues. Stanford’s CS183c?—?Blitzscaling

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

by Will Schneider, founder of insightQuote. If the world’s best known ecommerce brand is so committed to cross-selling and upselling, bootstrapped ecommerce stores cannot afford not to do the same. Remember to keep tabs on key metrics that will show the impact of each technique. Leverage Email Marketing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The first step in Customer Development was Customer Discovery ; extracting hypotheses from the business plan and getting the founders out of the building to test the hypotheses in front of customers. Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Did the VC’s like your team

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software suggests asking yourself the following questions: Will your customers ever see your space? You could also use personal earnings and do a bit of bootstrapping as well. For B2B companies: Branding Business. As the saying goes, you can’t please everyone! How will your customers get there?

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