Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

Between this blog, my podcast , MicroConf and the Micropreneur Academy , I’ve had the privilege of watching hundreds of entrepreneurs launch products over the past decade (even into the thousands, depending on how you count). Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Good post about the pitfalls of code refactoring for startups – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Taking Care of Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Brian Clark and I have been friends for a really long time and they have certainly set the standard on how to build a business, how to build a brand, how to take care of a community. Transcript of The Key to Success? Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Making Sense of Color Codes – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. image credit: Luc Legay.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Making Sense of Color Codes – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. image credit: Luc Legay.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport – [link]. The Importance and Different Types of Community Driven Websites – [link]. Good list of 10 reasons, from @edwardboches about the benefits of blogging – [link]. Outstanding … 10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport – [link]. The Importance and Different Types of Community Driven Websites – [link]. Good list of 10 reasons, from @edwardboches about the benefits of blogging – [link]. Outstanding … 10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Why software startups decide to patent … or not – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. Effective Use Of Blog Sidebar Section – Inspiration And Tips – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Based on the list posted on StartupWeekend Resources pag e and the TokBox blog. Website/Blogging. Ning Communities. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

The Steps of Creative Communication – [link]. How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business - [link]. Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business - [link]. How to Prevent a Community From Growing On Your Site – [link].

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business. So what happened?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. 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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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David is also struggling with the notion of his community taking the transactions offline. Well, eLance has experienced similar problems, and I asked David to concentrate on communicating to his user base of service providers the value of building a reputation through references and reviews/customer feedback.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Contributors include dozens of TechStars mentors and founder alumni, including Dharmesh Shah the founder and CEO of HubSpot and the curator of the OnStartups blog and community. Or worse, one that claims equity that you don't believe is due. Will the company be self-funded and bootstrapped? Can any of us be fired?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Tips on Effective Use of Crowdsourcing for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs – [link]. 5 Tips for Managing Your Company’s Brand on the Web – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Tips on Effective Use of Crowdsourcing for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs – [link]. 5 Tips for Managing Your Company’s Brand on the Web – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Small business and startup issues: choosing the wrong software – [link]. crowdSPRING SmallBiz Newsletter: new 1099 rules, biz plans, building software products – [link]. Small business and startup issues: choosing the wrong software – [link]. Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why Do Some People Learn Faster? – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog? Let me know.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This post will give you 36 places where you can submit your startup for reviews, mentions or at least some backlinks. When we launched our public beta in April, the first thing we wanted was some coverage on different startup blogs and websites. Sociable Blog 20. Traindom blog is maintained by Peep Laja ( @peeplaja ).

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Google buzz Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Expert Rackspace Hosting MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS ConVerdge Communities About Us Submit a Tip!

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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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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here are a few common examples: Publishing / Blogging There are a wealth of off-the-shelf tools available for publishers and bloggers, and it’s possible to build a veritable media empire out of them (think Gawker Media ), or to simply carve out a really solid, small business (think Problogger ).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2011

Turning an Addiction into a Bootstrapped Startup – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. The False Choice Between Babies & Startups – [link]. Earned media becoming more important (makes sense that this is happening) – [link].

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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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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. I hope it’s a bunch of crazy, funny people who are going to write blog post and another content for you. The other is, ‘Don’t forget about bootstrapping.’

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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 Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 8 – The Unsung Hero of Health.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

Its been a while since my last blog post.It I assembled textbook chapters, Harvard Business Review articles, cases, and notes to pull together my own textbook. hp coupon code. Blog Archive. How Much Diligence is Due. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, July 31, 2008. NCH Australia.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that? Bootstrapping comes a little bit later, where this idea of throwing your own money into the mix, making it happen yourself is important. Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. That ink smell.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

I don’t believe in the myth of the self-made man or woman that you are who you are, and you can achieve what you can achieve really because you believed it hard enough, and you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps to get there. We rely on communities of people that help us get to where we want to go. I’m a fan of hard work.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

This is Sabrina Parsons, the CEO of Palo Alto Software. She also publishes a resource blog, succeedasyourownboss.com and Melinda is also the bestselling author of “Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months: A Month-By-Month Guide to a Business That Works.” ” With that, I will hand it over to Melinda.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Thanks so much for having me and letting me be a part of the Bplans community. We are bootstrapping. I know just enough HTML and CSS to really play around on my blog and really mess it up now and then when I do something wrong. Your software may change. I’ve got to get this … It’s due on Friday.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. After leaving Juno, he founded his own software company, Fog Creek Software. Defensibility in Software.

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