Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Do it yourself. Hire experts, not help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad, again free. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad, again free. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Here are a few perspectives on it: Building a sweat equity team You simply need to network. I would caution any founder that finding and being successful with equity-only developers is tough. It can be done, but it’s hard. Go to user groups. Go to tech (or other relevant industry) events. Refine your elevator pitch.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Bootstrapping 101. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. Blog Archive. ProfessorVC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad, again free. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. What is bootstrapping? So, what does it mean to bootstrap a company? Bootstrapping involves launching a business on a low budget. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

We're going to get reviews on blogs.". We're going to start with our own network and grow it from there.". WhenBusy is a bootstrapped startup that lets people schedule meetings with you in currently-available time-slots without you having to share your calendar [disclosure: I'm an advisor]. Infection built-in, not bolt-on.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

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.”. Networking. You won’t make it big unless you have a network. This startup stage starts from the day you decide to work on a startup idea. Let’s learn that.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

What about bootstrapping? Don’t be scared to turn down “dumb money” Network like crazy. ” The post Dragons, Bootstrapping and Women in Tech appeared first on Bplans Blog. Bradford and Nelson thought that those brands who feature an avatar or character (think Moz robot ) were memorable.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I greatly leveraged my eCommerce and broad Shop.org network to do so. I intentionally waited until we were 12 months old and had our first million in annual client bookings to hire our first VP of Sales, Michael Osborne, because I wanted to run with my network first and get the business model right before we added too much fuel to the fire.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 3, 2012

Bootstrap as much as you can. Bootstrapping is the process of running your business with no outside financing. While you clearly can't accomplish as much as if you had outside funds, bootstrapping forces you to get creative and to figure out how to do more with less funds. Keep your eyes and ears open and network.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. In terms of monetization, Vin expects the ad networks to supply ads to his site by selling ads to local restaurants. Or, bootstrap longer. That sounds great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Do it yourself. Hire experts, not help.

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Up and Running

JULY 1, 2015

Bootstrapping. Many entrepreneurs use bootstrapping, which means financing your company by scraping together funds in unconventional ways. Here are some popular ways of bootstrapping your business. See Also 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. There are other alternative ways to jumpstart your business engine.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

This post was originally published on Paymill’s blog. Whether you’re bootstrapping or have just secured a round of funding – chances are you want to attract as many customers to sign up for your product/service. One way to market your startup on the cheap is through blogging. Attend trade shows and networking events.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

Three important factors that founders have to consider (no matter their location) are networks, funding, and talent. Here’s how we viewed each of these: Networking was critical to us. Nor was there a widely established network of Angels with a track record of supporting local companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2013

Write a blog post. Become a Google analytics expert. Deliver a keynote. Build Links. Conduct customer interviews. Segment a market. Understand a term sheet. Recruit and Train. Train an intern. Hire A Players. Replace B Players. Cold call C level executives. Write a novel. Raise Money. Build an advisory board.

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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. Having that much said about freemium pricing in its conventional form, let’s move on to other pricing strategies.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow?   If the answer is relatively soon, then bootstrapping is a very serious consideration.    Even if it isn’t soon, early bootstrapping can reduce risk and increase chances for success, resulting in more aligned interests for entrepreneurs and investors.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

When starting out, many agencies blog about topics directly related to their offering. Follow-up question: Do you read any blogs in this space? Creating a well-document content roadmap is critical for producing blog posts and articles that generate new business. Mining your clients for pain-points, success, and topic ideas.

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Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

Then social networks, and finally mobile computing. Either you will bootstrap the business or you will partner with someone local to fund it, because VCs won’t give you the time of the day. Obviously in hindsight it was a good call. Sure, machine learning is advancing every day.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MAY 14, 2010

The panel consisted of a CEO of a travel guide app for the iPad, a bootstrap developer of many iPhone apps and an iPad app, and a marketing person from a Shazam-competitor app. I really enjoyed the networking time after the panel (I missed the pre-panel networking time). Maybe they will read my blog and tell me by commenting.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. We also had Pritam Roy present Gomolo.in , a social network and online hangout for movie lovers. The Mumbai roundtable was extremely interactive and fun. Fragrochem.

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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 Startups can submit their projects to Fing, which provides support to over 200 projects a year through events, programs, and access to a large network of resources.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 19, 2012

Bootstrapping. Subscribe to this blogs feed. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Wisconsin Angel Network Find Information about all of the networks in Wisconsin here! October 2010. September 2010. Categories. Angels and Advisors. Funding startups.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

Take advantage of networking opportunities. Take advantage of any networking opportunities offered to you, as you never know which will be the chance you’ve been waiting for. Learn about social networking. Create a website, write a blog, and use social media to get your name out there. Start a blog.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 20, 2009

Bootstrap your venture. At last week's Business Plan Competition at Marquette University , the keynote speaker, Greg Gianforte, CEO of Right Now , talked passionately about the keys to bootstrapping businesses.    Greg is the well known author of Bootstrapping Your Business , and a frequent speaker on the topic. 

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

I’m also interested in investing in people who have worked for me in the past or who I know through the Aspen Global Leadership Network and Henry Crown Fellowship. If it doesn’t require much capital to get started and make money then it might be a better idea to bootstrap it. Do your homework Reading this blog post is a good start!

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

Content companies, for example, should be able to amass traffic and sell advertising on a bootstrapped budget before they come close to seeking equity financing—because you can, and because that’s the market expectation and that’s what your competitors are already doing. That’s why recruiters make so much coin.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Bootstrapping. Subscribe to this blogs feed. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Wisconsin Angel Network Find Information about all of the networks in Wisconsin here! October 2010. September 2010. Categories. Angels and Advisors. Funding startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

Facebook Launching Mobile Ad Network At F8 Conference | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1musoF6. 15 Useful Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers | DJDESIGNERLAB – crowdspring.co/1iDkMPO. Why Search Volume Doesn’t Matter as Much as You Think – crowdspring.co/1nHSu7x. 1ijEY9t.

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nickpoint.co.uk

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We’ve been making lots of new friends at networking events over the last year. We found Keegan through 99Designs and used him for our logo , business cards , Launch page and a new blog for Bootstrapping. Blog at WordPress.com. Trust takes time and experience working together. Why did it work so well?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 16- Made my blog a profitable business.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 19, 2016

For us, it was like a mini MBA, teaching us how to think about the early stage of building a business, but it’s paired with an accelerated schedule (which really teaches you how to create momentum and build things), and most importantly it’s about the network. Bootstrapping is sexy! But we knew they didn’t know us.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Entrepreneurs, which by definition are stubborn entities are therefore finding creative and cheap ways to bootstrap their startups. The app obviously geolocalizes every info and integrates with Facebook and other social networks.

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