ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

When starting out, many agencies blog about topics directly related to their offering. Data sources include the publications, competitors, influencers, podcasts, and communities that your audience engages with the most. With industry trends identified, your next step is to identify relevant communities and conversations.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. According to Lee M Von Kraus, PHD and a mentor at Clarity.fm, “Early stage startups are usually pre-money startup that are bootstrapping the early development of a product.”. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. cases you will fail.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

How we got into Y Combinator (OwnLocal W10) OwnLocal received seed funding from Y Combinator in 2010 and has grown to work with 279k+ businesses through 3,500 local newspapers This is a repost from my self-hosted blog that mysteriously disappeared in 2014. I even asked for help from the community and what they thought the company should do.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. It’s part three of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. Raise your first round of money, or bootstrap.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes. Blogging tools, video hosting services, image hosting services and the like, all make this a very accessible place to start up.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Andrew Ellis, one of the co-founders of SignNow.com, was so enthusiastic about his company, I’m going to let him do most the talking on this one: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? People who need a fast signature only need to upload the document and then sign and send it.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 19, 2016

Thankfully that was remedied several years ago socially and professionally also had the pleasure of hosting Emily and her husband Rob in our office while they noodled on their next company (we have some extra space for friends to co-work, no strings attached). HW: Both Din and Foodzie were cofounded with your husband Rob LaFave.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

These companies have a long way to go until global dominance in many cases, but they are all growing, hiring, and strengthening the local community right now. Look out for bootstrapped CarGurus , one of the leading used-car properties, targeting over $150M in revenue this year. Want the next TripAdvisor or Wayfair?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization. Congratulations. Being misunderstood is a big step up from being ignored.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. The site I co-founded, DesignCrowd.com, grew from a garage office to a thriving marketplace with 148,000 designers, and businesses who have created $12 million worth of jobs, in just a few years by applying these ideas.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2015

3 Advantages to an Experiential Web Presence written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Whether it’s at work researching and managing my clients , at home browsing my favorite blogs and shopping, or on the go using Uber and Google Maps , I usually always have a way to access the Internet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog? Eric- I rarely comment on blogs, but I wanted to thank you for your efforts to disseminate the lean start-up techniques to build better companies that deliver products or services that people want. Could easily add it to our blogs. Let me know.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

Gina Mancuso , Founder and CEO of LoveThatFit. Derek Shanahan , Chief Community Officer of Foodtree. Avichal Garg , Co-Founder and CEO of Spool. Justin Beck , Co-Founder and CEO of PerBlue. Prerna Gupta , Co-Founder and CEO of Khush Inc. Jun Loayza , Co-Founder and CMO of RewardMe.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Create an Inc.com account: Home Magazine Blogs Ask Inc. Ive done a lot of placing people into positions, and I have never used a job board as a way to do that," says Rich Sloan , co-founder of StartupNation. Once, one of Meebos founders even played JavaScript bingo with people who showed up. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Welcome to Social Media Week --the one week out of the year where we get to tweet and blog about social media! Bootstrapping a community from zero users. with Liza Mosquito de Guia, Founder & Chief Storyteller, food. Hopefully, you can find a way in to some of these events as most are sold out. Try the waitlists.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And despite not going to University, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of the Unicorn Startup Just Eat. Well, you're going to judge it by the team, by the co-founders. Should you bootstrap? It's the founders themselves. Can you find the right co-founder?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). Well, you're gonna judge it by the team, by the co-founders. And when you're judging it by the co-founders, that's when you have to try and decide, okay, what have they got going for themselves?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

David Daneshgar, Gregg Weisstein, and Farbod Shoraka, the founders of BloomNation.com. But, of course, they need funding—and wouldn’t you know it, one of the founders is a world class poker player. So, from the consumer end, the founders believed they could do better. Creating a better experience for both florists and consumers.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. Now, we have a well-calculated formula for launching businesses that are 100% bootstrapped with a very small amount of initial capital. 20- Add value to the global human community.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

I posted a blog recently about Hollrr but the easiest way to describe it is FourSquare for products. I find founders of companies like this extremely inspiring and he certainly didn’t let me down with his answers in this interview. David: Hollrr is about building community. David: Hollrr is 100% bootstrapped.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). I programmed since the time I was seven-years old, as I explain in my blog post on why I named this blog?—?Lucky7?—?in

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In between sessions, this cohort of companies would have the opportunity to act as a learning community, sharing what theyve learned and supporting one another as they try to put the techniques into practice. Thanks for all that you have done to help the startup community! August 9, 2009 10:28 AM Chris said. I love the business model.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I hope it’s a bunch of crazy, funny people who are going to write blog post and another content for you.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I mentioned to Mike that I was going to kick this series off over on the Meebo Blog , but he suggested I start it here.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? Here are 10 bootstrapped companies that did it on their own with no outside funding. Looking back on their previous experiences working at startup companies, the founders decided to bootstrap their business in lieu of seeking outside funding. Startup #1: Goldstar.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

After a couple of months my tours got a big write up on a popular blog and suddenly there was a wait list of 1000+ people for these unconventional museum tours. We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! #2

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We had some radical thoughts how companies were going to have change to remain competitive in the 21 st century in a blog post. There are co-working spaces in basically every city in the world—from Nepal to New York. We had to design a whole new hiring process, compensation model, operating model, co-working spaces, etc.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2014

I don’t feel strongly enough yet to turn any of these thoughts into standalone blog posts so instead: Yo (single note notifications). Last two years was “fast graph” -> app bootstrapping via “connect your FB account and autofollow all friends.” Taptalk (social photos app).

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 25, 2020

Not trying to be a lone-wolf founder. Before we were cool enough to even know about Slack, my co-founder John and I started the company working on an iMessage thread. I started my blog just a few months ago with the initial goal of helping first-time fathers in their new project on how to become a great dad.

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