A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Consider the consequences of these monthly pricing possibilities: $0/mo means your goal is to maximize growth (trust and usage) instead of revenue. This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

It’s mostly popular with B2C markets. Solving the equation of value and revenue for your SaaS product is not easy. If you are a bootstrapped DIY solopreneur, you should estimate your chances and think twice before choosing your VC-funded, 200-employees-strong competitor’s pricing strategy. Youtube ads. $1 1 freemium.

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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 You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. No revenue isn’t always a problem for venture-style businesses; no investors + no revenue = challenges for most founders without tremendous self-funding.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Get back up and running.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

The best startups, of course, are those who help the world become a better place, but unless your revenue exceeds your expenses and your work results in profit, you are doing charity, not running a business. Free with ads model is popular within products targeted to B2C markets. Does your product deliver the value right away?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

There are also different definitions of failure. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. . Consumer Services (B2C).

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