Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. The logic behind all these features is millions of lines of code, and cost millions of dollars to develop and maintain.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. June 17th, 2012.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

Our hurdle was to develop our own network of investors and we did this the old-fashioned way: one degree of separation at a time. For instance, the pool of software developers is not as deep here as it is in Silicon Valley, and finding the right people, with the right skill-set can be daunting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. Micro VC’s and Super Angels Two Years Later – Looking Back and Some Predictions for the Future | Business Insider – [link]. The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link].

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders?

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

   He's also requiring that you source your software development through his consulting company at a price "to be negotiated."  "  Finally, if you fail to agree on a price for the development within 6 months, he gets his money back with 18% interest.  Bootstrapping.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

More importantly, a subscription business model enables you to manage the cash flow, upgrade your business planning and optimize metrics such as churn rates, the lifetime value of a customer, expansion, and more. It’s clear why positive cash flow is a holy grail of lifestyle businesses, but is there more to it?

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If you want to build a business that requires software, be prepared to invest a little money. I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. The business geek needed a working software prototype and the programmer needed experience.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Jokes aside, the top-down approach has its place in business plans and pitch decks commonly used to ask people for money. 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. Think food is an outlier?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

The embryos were combined to help scientists understand the role that specific genes play in embryonic development. How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. ” | by @fraying – [link].

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