Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. You may have to pay the writer and photographer, and perhaps you’ll spend some money on training the writer to use blogging software and social media tools that help them build a following.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Next Igor Protsenko presented Profitero , an enterprise software product for helping retailers with price comparison and optimization.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Then Kristen Becker presented Kir Devries , an e-commerce site that offers a well-edited collection of unique goods for practical everyday living that have been sourced due to their impeccable craftsmanship, unique design and style, and their "good factor" in the moderate price range. Kir Devries. InnovizeTech.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. I'm an engineer.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. As for acquiring customers, so far he has used Internet marketing, and they have just started a partnership with a large reseller of restaurant management software, which is great.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. First up, Adrian Montero from Belen, Heredia, Costa Rica, presented FinqIt.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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. She is also considering developing software to address these issues.

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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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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

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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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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? It was a disaster.

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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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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. We will never know. So if matters, put in the work. At first, I got historical.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. Has anyone in the engineering team actually shipped a product? I worry about everything: money, sales, engineering, support, and recruiting.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. I’m the CEO of Palo Alto Software. A lot of people have asked about the software. ” You’re reviewing this each month. This is Sabrina.

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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind. 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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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. is a SaaS tool that companies can use to assess engineers before they hire them. spent $1k on their MVP. Qualified.io Qualified.io

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

He blogs at pixelmonkey.org , where this post originally appeared. Startups die due to a variety of causes. In early 2011, I wrote a post, Startups: Not for the faint of heart , that discussed Parse.ly’s survival through a one-year bootstrapping period after Dreamit Ventures Philly ’09.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. is a SaaS tool that companies can use to assess engineers before they hire them. spent $1k on their MVP. Qualified.io Qualified.io

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Here’s the most common one which I got just this week: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. Today it would be near-impossible to bootstrap Smart Bear on those keywords. And what’s the point anyway? I bought ads for $0.05/click

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Customer Software Review SEM Technical Review 279

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Jason: Okay, so that’s a very small company in which the CEO is pulling out the credit card for meeting software because even people with a hundred people, the CEO is not the person pulling out a credit card for the meeting software. I don’t care about what the software looks like yet. Edwin: I tend to disagree.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

of businesses are actively seeking & collecting customer reviews on an ongoing basis. According to an article in Econsultancy , when a site has customer reviews, 63% of visitors are more likely to make a purchase & reviews produce an average of 18% uplift in sales. million customer reviews. image source.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Let me direct you first of all to my blog. I bootstrapped it on my own. In fact, that’s exactly what happened to me with WordPress Engine. Mark: I tend not to use that term, but I’m not opposed to that term.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2017

Big data and cloud-based software have definitely helped level the playing field for businesses of all sizes. The goal is the same for both: reach that first search engine results page (SERP) and increase your profit while doing so. What’s the Difference Between Small Business and Large Enterprise SEO? Security: This is a no-brainer.

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SEO Small Business Metadata Software Review 56

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Computing and software came a few years later for me as access to computers wasn’t as easy or affordable. Software is awesome as it gives you instant gratification. It requires a higher level of discipline than software does. You make a change, compile, and voila you can see the effect of what you did.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Don’t forget to sign up for the wonderful Business of Software conference to hear Jason speak in person. So it’s property management software? Our software will do that. I don’t get this.

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API Software Review Hosting Technical Review 220

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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Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

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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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. I could point to countless examples of mediocre software being unleashed upon the general population, after which people like you and me have to help replace it with something decent. In fact, not having one can be more helpful than anything else.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. This provides the most accurate results for people using that search engine. Good luck ranking in every Google search engine. Bad news for you.

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Marketing Software Review Matching Bootstrapping 64

Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Determine content strategy for blog: This should probably have been done sooner, but you can only do so much with three people. You want to make sure you have a consistent voice and are writing blog posts that support the service you're trying to promote. Do you want to reach out to blogs for coverage?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. Applying Digitial Marketing Techniques To Retail Shopping | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Search Engine Watch – [link]. 25+ Fresh Business Cards Ideas to Inspire You | Bloom Web Design Blog – [link]. Econsultancy – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Code clean. Everyone is happier when the code we interact with is clean and consistant. Beyond the obvious advantages of keeping code in sync and tracking changes, it gives the whole team the ability to see what everyone else is working on by looking at commits. Steve Souders books and blog are fantastic. Need a guide?

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Web Software Review Technical Review Caching 96

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

—?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! We side-hustled.

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Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

The Netflix cloud systems group recently created a Cloud Performance Team to focus on characterizing the performance of components such as Cassandra, and helping other teams make their code and AWS usage more efficient to reduce latency for customers and costs for Netflix. This team is currently looking for an additional engineer.

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EC2 Caching Software Review Java 68

venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). If you like it, check out his blog and Twitter. Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. Coincidence?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. If you don’t know how to code in C# then it is probably easier and faster to use Dreamweaver , Frontpage or the freeware KompoZer. Secondly you need some software to create flow charts in.

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