Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along Stanford’s CS183c?—?Blitzscaling

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your goal was to preserve your cash while you turned these guesses into facts and searched for a repeatable and scalable sales model. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. Those who didn’t have a product or much of a product used a concierge model of sorts ala Lean Startup philosophy to start running their business. You charge a high enough (i.e.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. Those who didn’t have a product or much of a product used a concierge model of sorts ala Lean Startup philosophy to start running their business. You charge a high enough (i.e.

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

…it seems that a higher ROI may lean in the favor of word-of-mouth advertising. According to an article in Econsultancy , when a site has customer reviews, 63% of visitors are more likely to make a purchase & reviews produce an average of 18% uplift in sales. Google Forms (if you really need to bootstrap).

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market. A sales forecast. You could also use personal earnings and do a bit of bootstrapping as well. Startup costs.

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