Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

Diligence, or the ability to get a job done. At Palo Alto Software, we use a lean planning process to determine whether or not an idea is likely to succeed or to fail. Let’s review them: Bootstrap your business with a side business. An eye for detail. The ability to focus. Physical stamina and strength.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. My guest today is Lloyed Lobo.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. But once a set of reference customers are in place, this business definitely needs a telesales channel, not a direct, feet-on-the-street sales force. What we have taken on is hard enough. Rangrut.com.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The startup scene is relatively young, however, which is partly due to some pretty fundamental cultural barriers. so it shouldn't be long till they hop across the Channel.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This post will give you 36 places where you can submit your startup for reviews, mentions or at least some backlinks. Initially the list got pretty big, but I weeded out websites where you need to be way bigger to get mentioned ( Mashable , Techcrunch and the like) or that charge money for a review. Killer Startups 2. Springwise 3.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. ObjectiveMarketer offers an integrated platform for businesses to create, execute and optimize powerful multi-channel social media marketing programs.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2015

Take a cue from Natasha, and channel her motivation and fresh perspective to find and use the resources available to all. MindKube’s growth and increase in client acquisitions is proof that Natasha’s diligence and patience when it came to finding the right professionals for her company has paid off. Sometimes you just never know.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. ObjectiveMarketer offers an integrated platform for businesses to create, execute and optimize powerful multi-channel social media marketing programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started with a subscription SAAS model. all at once.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started by building a stand-alone subscription software (SaaS) product. all at once.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Computing and software came a few years later for me as access to computers wasn’t as easy or affordable. Software is awesome as it gives you instant gratification. It requires a higher level of discipline than software does. You make a change, compile, and voila you can see the effect of what you did.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started with a subscription SAAS model. all at once.

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Bootstrapping Technical Review SEO Revenue 27

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

This is Sabrina Parsons, the CEO of Palo Alto Software. 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. Please make this investment in yourself and if you like it will you please go give me a review somewhere.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Jason: Okay, so that’s a very small company in which the CEO is pulling out the credit card for meeting software because even people with a hundred people, the CEO is not the person pulling out a credit card for the meeting software. I don’t care about what the software looks like yet. Edwin: I tend to disagree.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The company is currently bootstrapped and the app is launching next week. Did one channel work more than others so far? Ofir: We have 3 main marketing strategies; Online strategies – We are approaching app review sites, dating review sites and relationship advice websites. Are you looking to raise funding?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners. At Smart Bear we were selling a code review tool, and if you paid $600 for Perforce, it was very hard for me to charge $600 hundred for an add-on to Perforce that did code review. What’s your question then? Jason: Woo.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. If you don’t know how to code in C# then it is probably easier and faster to use Dreamweaver , Frontpage or the freeware KompoZer. Secondly you need some software to create flow charts in.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. [link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

by Gareth Wilson, Head of Marketing at Fog Creek Software. Despite being a bootstrapped company with little revenue, we over-invested in a central New York City office at a rate of 15% rent to revenue. What’s more, just over three quarters of workers consider their ideas are poorly reviewed and analyzed.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs mistakenly often engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. Team building strategies – what is appropriate for a bootstrapped stage versus what is needed for funding.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. They’ve heard rules of thumb like “A growing software company is worth 5 times their trailing 12-months revenue.&# To stoke an existing sales channel. Channels are often measured in the billions of dollars. Actually, no.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due. Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies. Lead developer-Keeps the team organized with who is working on what specific part of the code and keeps the team driving towards the daily/weekly goals. Find out what motivates people.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all!

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