crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. 12 inspiring marketing campaigns from Google | Econsultancy – crowdspring.co/1fn1hcw.

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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 Given my background in the data-driven world of political campaigns, I know it’s all about the #s (you win or lose on Election Day given your win #?—?you Bootstrapping is AMAZING! So what happened? Yet, yet here we are.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! If your small business or startup sends email newsletters or other email marketing campaigns, what is the best time of day to send those emails?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. The Old Spice Social Media Campaign by the Numbers – [link]. Good advice … How To Sell – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. The Old Spice Social Media Campaign by the Numbers – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link]. 24 Email Newsletters Inspiration For Your Next Campaign – [link]. Two Campaigns, One Theme, Different Outcomes – [link].

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Here are some example questions we recently used during a client campaign: Why did you decide to work with [AGENCY]? Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding. We usually limit the number of high-level questions to 5 or 6, which allows us to focus on digging deeper into our client’s responses.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

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. We focused on social media campaigns around our service lines, creating high quality content blogs in our field of expertise. I must be mad. You need your rock.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Not sure how long Old Spice can keep it up – but this is a BRILLIANT social media campaign – [link].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

This dual-leadership approach would have avoided the disaster I experienced in a startup a few years ago where beta customers loved our software solution as a free prototype, but we couldn’t sell a single one for the full price that seemed reasonable for all our work and innovation. Execute a pilot plan in with a limited geographic scope.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. A demand generation manager’s responsibilities involve creating and distributing targeted content ( blog posts , podcasts, and thought leadership) that educates potential customers on solving common challenges relevant to their product or industry.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

2) You might have some project / task management experience, your leadership experience is limited to that. Both of these not just provide individual contributor title growth, they provide for easier switches to other leadership roles (should you show promise). |2| To even switch to leadership role (team management).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This book is steeped in the knowledge of how to scale your sales team, written by people that constantly consult in this area (and thank you to Bijoy Goswami, founder of Bootstrap Austin, for the recommendation to read this book eight years ago?—?make make that fourteen years now).

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But sometimes the fastest path to sustainable market leadership involves pursuing a strategy that is unprofitable in the short term in order to reach a position that is more profitable in the long term. Blitzscaling works when being the first company to achieve critical scale produces enduring leadership in a massively valuable market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 21, 2015

Slim, bootstrapping teams could wear a designer hat and produce the rich content quickly and inexpensively by enlisting some of these fantastic content-producing tools: Capture the moment with Skitch. Have what it takes to write an informative eBook but lack the design skill to bring into fruition? offers the perfect solution.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Most people who bootstrap their business do it on their personal credit card and if yours are maxed out from the day you start your business you’re going nowhere fast. You need to show leadership skills because the things that you’ve got to understand is that everybody else in your company is going to queue off of what you do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

You know, a little context is that I've been working on hunger issues for 10 years in cooperation with the No Kid Hungry Campaign and several local leaders in that. He's been with me in the No Kid Hungry Campaign, as well as working closely with Charity Water. And Ryan's been working on water and hunger issues.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Of those, how many will buy, and without spending a lot of time on it, you see that here we have unit sales from a hypothetical email campaign. I strongly endorse bootstrapping, and I will tell you I speak from experience. We had three mortgages and $65,000 in credit card debt at one point doing this bootstrapping. Is it risky?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s sort of like a supercharged version of Excel that lets you suck in data, you can suck in all your Facebook advertising campaigns, you can suck in all your Salesforce.com data, and you can run — you can actually, yourself, as a small business person, actually analyze and find friends and data. The GitHub guys did an amazing job.

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