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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g. Also this is almost exclusively B2B unless it’s something “luxury.” Think: GoDaddy).

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Tips For Emerging Young Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

In my businesses we’ve seen that often the sales person who sells the most is the best writer: talking the talk is easy, backing it up with an effective, pitch-perfect email is much harder. Master the art of bootstrapping: aim to “bootstrap” first. Be curious and adventurous: think like The North Face. Do something.

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The Startup Guide To Training Your Sales Team

YoungUpstarts

A sales team is the lifeblood of any B2B organization. To put this in other words, the success of a business depends to a great extent on their sales team. Secondly, bootstrapped startups may not be able to afford such elaborate training processes that cost time and money. Modify the sales process.

Sales 101
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5 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

But, his tenacity is impresive: he pulled himself back up by the bootstraps, and founded Nextiva which today generates more than $100M ARR. After working essentially as a leading consultant with a publishing services company helping publishers go digital, I purchased my own niche, declining b2b directory company- and turned it around.

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Blogger's Island: B2B Content Curation

Transformify

B2B Content curation and B2B content aggregation are very powerful, and if used properly, can tremendously boost the outreach and secure new leads. A number of industry leaders are relying on B2B content curation to drive traffic to their web pages, educate their users and generate new leads. How to do that?

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Trials and Tribulations of the New Uncover

Spencer Fry

As a bootstrapped company, we cannot afford to have so much time between releases. Why Bootstrapping is Good and Bad. Why Bootstrapping is Good and Bad. Bootstrapping Uncover has been both good and bad. Where bootstrapping has helped us is that it has given us time to design, build and experiment. Never again.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. Bigfoot Capital. ARR of $500K+.

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