A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. Well 80% of the folks I meet tell me they're way better than average at SEO, Twitter, and "building communities" whateverthehell that means. Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages.

Intellectual Property 319

Intellectual Property Bootstrapping Software Review Open Source 319

Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2022

Luckily, you can follow this 10-step framework to uncover why you were rejected and adjust your pitch. If the investment community doesn’t invest in a plan, there may well be some very good reasons why not. And if funding of any kind isn’t in the cards, you shouldn’t discount bootstrapping your business. Embrace rejection.

Venture Capital 146

Venture Capital Intellectual Property Angel Investor Bootstrapping 146

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Ning Communities. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). On-line Communities. open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. Google Groups.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53