Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. Project based on your market size how many widgets you will sell in every channel. Quantify overhead costs.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

Take the time to research your market, identify your target audience, and refine your idea until it’s both good and compelling. Market Research and Analysis With your core idea in hand, diving into market research is your next step. Revenue streams are another critical component of your business model.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. We see Bizosys as a promising niche vendor with demonstrated capabilities in creative bootstrapping.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Should you raise money or bootstrap? (By By bootstrap, I actually mean raise < $250k from individuals / angels). Having run a startup that raised money and now in running a VC, ironically, if I were starting a product company today, I would start out with the mentality of bootstrapping for as long as I could.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Impact of Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Lloyed Lobo In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Lloyed Lobo. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company.

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View from Seed

JULY 7, 2015

His company is a bootstrapped startup (for now, he says) that helps other software companies price their products based on what customers will actually pay — and essentially avoid leaving revenue on the table. Startup Lessons You’ll Learn: What tradeoffs a bootstrapped startup’s CEO makes. Inside the Episode.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The most successful agencies are beginning to invest more time and money in content marketing to establish expertise in their industry and, more importantly, generate inbound appointments. Using a tool like SparkToro , you can uncover the channels and influencers that your audience is most engaged with.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Should you raise money or bootstrap? (By By bootstrap, I actually mean raise < $250k from individuals / angels). Having run a startup that raised money and now in running a VC, ironically, if I were starting a product company today, I would start out with the mentality of bootstrapping for as long as I could.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. an e-commerce storefront building software for the Indian market. GrillGrate.

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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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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

The market just isn't that efficient to truly determine the best. I look for a smart ass team, building a kick ass product, in a big ass market," he said. The size of the target market is a gut test, he said, for whether whatever market the company is building for is interesting enough. The stages of funding.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Burgeoning Startup Founder writes: After a year of work, my startup is now doing about $6,000/mo in revenue and $3,000/mo in profit. You could try to “plow it back into marketing.” It has to be on getting more revenue. Find a consistent reseller channel, like an agency who needs your service fifty times a month.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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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. Take The Marketing Assessment: Like this show? Follow HelloAlice on Twitter.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. million in revenue. Not just assumptions.

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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 Thanks to Joe Sinkwitz, Intellifluence ! #3-

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

They know that showing market traction will attract big companies, like Apple or Google, who can easily overrun the best startup. Revenue and profit projections are not credible. Attractive businesses to investors may show revenues that double every year but don’t exceed the gross national product of your country.

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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. Want the next TripAdvisor or Wayfair?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

More challenging still, the space between marketers’ realities and solutions is equally vast: Seamless integration of marketing and sales data or a Google Analytics 360 subscription is aspirational. Those interactions occur across teams (marketing, sales, customer support) and platforms (analytics, CRM, email). Image source ).

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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. Matt sees a huge opportunity to bring technology to SMBs that help them understand how to optimize their processes around demand generation to achieve better results from any of their marketing channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. Project based on your market size how many widgets you will sell in every channel. Quantify overhead costs.

Forecast 120

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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. Matt sees a huge opportunity to bring technology to SMBs that help them understand how to optimize their processes around demand generation to achieve better results from any of their marketing channels.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ What About Sales & Marketing?, questions”.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

A few years ago, this is where you would sink all your hard earned bootstrap cash – but these days our friends at Amazon have given you a bunch of free hosting and space to get your next venture launched at no cost. Step 5: Marketing and sales. You don’t need to be a marketing MBA to learn how to generate sales leads.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. ObjectiveMarketer offers an integrated platform for businesses to create, execute and optimize powerful multi-channel social media marketing programs. Web Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — ObjectiveMarketer.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 25, 2011

I explained the 1M/1M Twitter strategy , followed by how 1M/1M premium members can use our Twitter channel. And we are generating a continuous stream of leads that we capture through HTML forms and engage with these prospects through a systematic email marketing process. We encourage you to take advantage of it.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Well, you can't really go "global" without a go-to-market strategy that evaluates different markets, and assesses the competitive positioning in each of them. This strategy needs to be developed for ISA, and they have to pick a specific market to go after, rather than going global. Math-Quest.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. ObjectiveMarketer offers an integrated platform for businesses to create, execute and optimize powerful multi-channel social media marketing programs. Web Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — ObjectiveMarketer.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

IDES is an analytics enhancement for fraud prevention systems addressing the credit card fraud market. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. IDES Technologies. If possible, of course.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Marketing first. This is obvious. Product second.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Marketing first. This is obvious. Product second.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue. You can find details in the blog post on [link].

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

I didn’t have a background in design – my experience was in digital marketing and supporting my family’s party supply business. Further, the next 3-5 years will be highly focused on scale and reach, with our brand entering new exciting markets and partnering with additional top tier channel partners. Networking is outdated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. So far, so good.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. With that in mind, how do you give yourself the best chance of avoiding failure?

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