View from Seed

JULY 7, 2015

I recently sat down with the remarkably thoughtful (and insanely scrappy) Patrick Campbell , co-founder and CEO of Price Intelligently. Startup Lessons You’ll Learn: What tradeoffs a bootstrapped startup’s CEO makes. A definition of content marketing that actually makes sense. My blog: Sorry For Marketing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. So when you’re thinking about marketing positioning to me, that side of it is the interesting side of it. Edwin: May I.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2013

He is the cofounder and CEO of Veed.me , a video production marketplace. The Next Web’s Entrepreneur channel exists because there enough people like us who are tired of working dead end jobs, yearning to be our own bosses and run our own companies. He’s also an avid Instagram addict. In our case, the product was videos.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

A description of your target market or the different market segments you’re targeting. If you don’t know how to define your target market, read Tim Berry’s article on how to do it, or read this article that explains what target marketing is and how to use it to your advantage. “If Solve a problem you can relate to.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. What is bootstrapping? Why bootstrap?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Clavier began his presentation at the beginning of a company's lifecycle, asking how many co-founders a startup ought to have. If you like this kind of advice, check out my coverage of a talk by Paul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media, titled " Investing in Your Influencers. ".

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. Raise your first round of money, or bootstrap. You either do it on your own, taking all risks and responsibility yourself (“bootstrapping”), or you find investors that believe in your company. 60-70% for founders.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The company is currently bootstrapped and the app is launching next week. Ofir Beigel and Karin Levi, the co-founders of Capple Factory are both graduates of Israel’s Zell Entrepreneurship program , which is quickly gaining the reputation of Israel’s Y Combinator. VC Cafe: How are you planning to market the app?

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2014

Perhaps Facebook hasn’t turned on its marketing channels yet but I’m surprised reaction has been this weak off the bat. Maybe I shouldn’t be since large percentage of their target market is already addicted to Instagram, Snapchat and other messaging apps. Slingshot (Facebook’s temporal messaging product).

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). Money Money Home Financing Taxes Accounting Basics Personal Finance Money Management Payments & Collections IPOs and DPOs Will Crazy Market Moves Kill IPOs and Slash VC Investment? Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

The reality is that successful businesses these days require an equally elegant business model, with the right marketing, delivery channel, price, and target customers, to get real traction. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Peter Arvai , co-founder of Prezi , an interactive presentation platform. And a founding team needs more than a complementary skill set. Jim Semick.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Carolyn Rodz. Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Follow Carolyn on Twitter.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse). Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense). Mobile Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Nexpense.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2012

Today's roundtable was co-hosted with the Jacksonville Startup Weekend. MJ Charmani, founder of iStart Jax, a business accelerator, and one of the key organizers of the event, introduced today's session with additional reports on last weekend's event. Direct selling simply is not the right solution for bringing this product to market.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse). Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense). Mobile Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Nexpense.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. Thinking big, destiny and naysayers — three things in the life of a startup founder. Stan Gloss , co-founder of BioTeam , consultants that design computer systems for life sciences companies. Stan Gloss.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. Thinking big, destiny and naysayers — three things in the life of a startup founder. Stan Gloss , co-founder of BioTeam , consultants that design computer systems for life sciences companies. Stan Gloss.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Look out for bootstrapped CarGurus , one of the leading used-car properties, targeting over $150M in revenue this year. The next big consumer company could be BookBub , with millions of users, a ravenous fan base on social channels, and global reach. Webb, as well as security-focused TenEleven , co-founded by Mark Hatfield.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast is sponsored by Podcast Bookers, podcastbookers.com. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. The site I co-founded, DesignCrowd.com, grew from a garage office to a thriving marketplace with 148,000 designers, and businesses who have created $12 million worth of jobs, in just a few years by applying these ideas.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As a bootstrapped company, fuelling your own growth can be challenging and comes with many lessons learned. This is exactly what Matt Buchanan and his co-founder have done while leading a technology company that offers local lead generation solutions, based in Austin, TX. They hire an online marketing company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

A solution would be to find a co-founder with the requisite background or investors who know you. They know that showing market traction will attract big companies, like Apple or Google, who can easily overrun the best startup. Market is new or unproven, or your solution is 'disruptive.'

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Lane Merrifield.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As a bootstrapped company, fuelling your own growth can be challenging and comes with many lessons learned. This is exactly what Matt Buchanan and his co-founder have done while leading a technology company that offers local lead generation solutions, based in Austin, TX. They hire an online marketing company.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

by Karla Friede, CEO, co-founder, and member of the Board of Directors at Nvoicepay. Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. Men typically say, “We are going to expand our channel and grow 25 percent next year.”. Target firms in your market.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Lane Merrifield.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners. It then hit the market, which happened to be the enterprise market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Those were the messages from the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Clips from their interviews are below, but first a word about the show: Entrepreneurs are Everywhere airs Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern on Sirius XM Channel 111. Frank Rimalovski. What’s the rationale?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Bootstrapping your business. If you aren’t familiar with the term, bootstrapping, also known as “self-funding,” refers to the various methods entrepreneurs can use to fund their startups beyond funding sources like small business loans. Using a side business to bootstrap your startup. Let’s begin.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

This article was a guest post by Bronson Taylor who is the host and co-founder of Growth Hacker TV , where the experts on startup growth reveal their secrets. They need an inflection point where growth becomes exponential (or as close to it as possible) so that they can become the clear winner in their market. Startups'

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. But instead of channeling all my energy towards building new features, I channel roughly 80% of it towards measuring and optimizing existing features. This case presents a further complication: desktop software.

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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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