SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Good stuff from Jason.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. We had some radical thoughts how companies were going to have change to remain competitive in the 21 st century in a blog post. to find, attract and retain “starters.”.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy. What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Anything you read on popular blogs is also read by everyone else. You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". 37signals' ranting platform — a blog with 131k followers and a best-selling book — is nearly impossible to build even with a full-time army of insightful writers.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses. Subscription Business Trends and Predictions for 2016.

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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.) Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. This is a radical departure from a traditional VC pitch.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Whereas a blog post needs just a computer to type, a video requires an understanding of lighting, audio, storytelling, editing, and community building. We’re a bootstrapped company that started with more time than money. So, from day one, we invested heavily in YouTube, our blog, Tumblr, and Reddit. lower views) in our data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics.

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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

MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. Bootstrap for years! You can bootstrap without VC money. Reply Bowling Balls , on June 21, 2009 at 8:29 am Said: I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. on May 26, 2009 at 6:18 am Said: [.]

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

Another friend of mine, multipreneur and CEO at Ritekit Saul Fleischman, has actually found the freemium model beneficial for some of his SaaS products: “With forever free users, they blog about us, and we get to market to them. Solving the equation of value and revenue for your SaaS product is not easy. Semrush pricing page.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Let me direct you first of all to my blog. I bootstrapped it on my own. You’ve bootstrapped a company, so you can see all those things, and you’re skeptical of the VC side. Dan: Jason, we’re certainly leaning more towards what you said. It’s called Both Sides of the Table. I think you know that.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Instead, putting all our focus into a business that was yet to exist, had no customers and no revenue. But we have made it this far and are ever the more energized to keep bootstrapping and tenaciously fighting to nurture and grow our fledgling business. Gone was the sanctuary that our family had relied on for twenty plus years.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Should you bootstrap? Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. John Jantsch (13:37): Yeah, I actually, I started my blog in 2003 that I talk about being in the right place at the right time. Should you raise funding? Yeah, yeah.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

Customer loyalty expert Fred Reichheld also reports in his book “ The Ultimate Question ” that businesses saw an average of 2x revenue growth by simply increasing their overall brand advocacy by only 12%. …it seems that a higher ROI may lean in the favor of word-of-mouth advertising. Blog landing pages testimonials'

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 1, 2012

The results of a serendipitous live experiment were recently published as guest posts on this blog. Sacha demonstrated the benefits of selling many copies of an eBook at a low price, while Jarrod pointed out the advantages of higher prices, bringing in more revenue with 1/6th the number of units sold. Which is better?

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

One of the reasons I started this blog in the first place is that I think the process of raising money is a black box. Those who didn’t have a product or much of a product used a concierge model of sorts ala Lean Startup philosophy to start running their business. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

One of the reasons I started this blog in the first place is that I think the process of raising money is a black box. Those who didn’t have a product or much of a product used a concierge model of sorts ala Lean Startup philosophy to start running their business. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2013

An anonymous tech entrepreneur—who at his height in the startup world “hit the top of TechCrunch” and landed a prestigious spot in a startup accelerator—has predicted the demise of his fledgling business, and is blogging the collapse as it happens. I didn’t believe the s**t I was selling investors.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And standing out to a company that got $10 million dollars in funding even before they started Asana is going to be very hard if you bootstrap it with your savings. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question. Jason: That’s called bootstrapping, right.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. You can follow Wade’s writing on his site or the Zapier blog. When we went out to raise money, we raised with only a couple thousand dollars in monthly recurring revenue. How to Convince Investors.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

I started a blog and I clearly remember the day I cracked 5,000 monthly visitors woo hoo! Because I know when I get home after a hard day’s work I like to have a glass of wine or 6, lean back and marvel at my amazing traffic trends report. Total revenue – Yes total revenue is generally a vanity metric. We all do it.

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2015

Every entrepreneur has heard of the Lean Startup methodology ; it’s a great way to prove demand with less time and money and to prevent building a product that no one will want. In practice though, the Lean Startup methodology is hard to figure out. See Also Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Five Ways You’re Not Going To Get An Investor For Your Startup written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Weston Bergmann – Enjoy! Revenue from 100 customers = Y. Y minus X) times Z = total profit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2011

It has been very challenging bootstrapping this venture with my financial aid from grad school. Fortunately, Cup o’ Noodles is still around along with some good old Lean Cuisines. I’d like to have annual revenue of $10 million, and a team of 60-70 employees in 10 cities. How do you see your company growing in the future?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The researchers found that in return, this ability caused entrepreneurs to disrupt common patterns in daily life, attracted more customers and created more revenue, causing a cycle of nuanced disruption and adaptation. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet. image credit: Paul Cross.

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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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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2018

So you’re essentially going live with it, and then you see what happens, and by doing it in this lean way hopefully you’re not spending exorbitant amounts of money or time or energy because what you want to do is you just want to put it out there and see what happens and test it out and see maybe what the business model can be.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Steve Souders books and blog are fantastic. Think/Plan about Site revenue model. ” Chris Coyier: I’m serving responsive layouts, use of Twitter-bootstrap, Skeleton, and custom media query based responsive layouts. There are proven development methodologies out there like Lean, Agile, Waterfall. Need a guide?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Later on, as the number of your satisfied subscribers grows, the creation of a long-term business with predictable revenue becomes possible. I bootstrapped Subbly by building an MVP (“minimum viable product”). I am a huge advocate for the lean way of starting and running a business. This is a mantra I live by.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

“It wasn’t like they invested in us with this premonition that we would raise revenue, they wanted to take the risk out of it,” says David. The idea [for BloomNation] was great […] but remember, the one thing they want to see is customers, and not just customers, they want to see revenue.”. We’d love to hear from you.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

I mean, imagine, in an abstract sense, how you might download, say, WordPress, and you’re doing that for content management, or for a blog. All you’ve proven is that you can make $200 a month in revenue off of some basic websites. Jason: In revenue. Jared: That takes revenue that I don’t have yet.

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