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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

—?and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity? If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! Hello Chris Yeh!)

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How to Establish an Agency Content Strategy When Outbound Stops Working

ConversionXL

Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding. The best content distribution approach is to reverse-engineer your client’s consumption habits. For example, if SEO is a priority, some metrics you’d want to focus on may include; Organic search traffic; Impressions on the SERPs; SERP click-through-rate; Avg.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. Cash is tight.

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