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YouTube Strategy Lessons from a Channel with 1.6 Million Subscribers

ConversionXL

Beardbrand currently has two different YouTube channels, one with 1.6 We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. These channels combined are generating hundreds of thousands of views a day, none of which we pay for. Giant channel examples are Smarter EveryDay , Mark Rober , and MKBHD.

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8 Keys To Starting A Venture With Minimal Equity Loss

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s more possible to bootstrap today than a few years ago, as the cost of entry continues to go down. It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Operate small, but show a big-company image.

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8 Ways To Get Your Business Going Without Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s more possible to bootstrap today than a few years ago, as the cost of entry continues to go down. It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Operate small, but show a big-company image.

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Bootstrapping Is Much More Fun Than Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s more possible to bootstrap today than a few years ago, as the cost of entry continues to go down. It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Operate small, but show a big-company image.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products.

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How to Start a Cleaning Business

Up and Running

At Palo Alto Software, we use a lean planning process to determine whether or not an idea is likely to succeed or to fail. Typically, domestic cleaning business operations need very little upfront investment and as such, can bootstrap their business idea, or get started as a part-time operation. You know enough to validate your idea.

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Seven Reasons Why Today’s Boomerang Kids Can’t Hack It In Business

YoungUpstarts

The world has fundamentally changed — it’s a lean and mean entrepreneur’s playing field now — and too many young people have never developed the skills and the street smarts to compete. I know firsthand what it takes to bootstrap a business from the ground up. The marketplace we’re preparing our kids to enter doesn’t exist anymore.