techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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San Francisco Startup PHP San Diego 44

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 17, 2012

The government wants to bring in foreign entrepreneurs to interact with the business community," Davis says. When the six-month program ended, they returned to San Francisco. If we'd had to bootstrap it, I don't know if we could have done it," Davis says. They raised $1.6

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Chile Silicon Valley San Francisco Cofounder 158

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. Prepay Nation is a processor of “micro-payments” across national and international boundaries utilizing “mobile” ecosystems within the “unbanked” communities. Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0 I don’t make it out to SF much, but for special occasions I will.

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Cofounder Fractional CTO San Francisco 40

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2013

AdEspresso is currently bootstrapped and so as a team we thought long and hard about if we should attend TC Disrupt or not. We knew it would open up a world of new possibilities for us – being in front of so many prestigious investors, journalists, bloggers and other people in the startup community. Startup Conference in Mountain View.

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San Francisco Italy Startup Bootstrapping 86

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

But travel, particularly for early-stage and bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are physically far away, can be hard to swing. We’re interested not only in bringing folks to San Francisco, but also in helping Lean Startup communities take root beyond Silicon Valley. Last year, we had 300 livestream groups worldwide.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

It was about building a community, and people who show up to those things have a heightened interest in Meebo." Every university makes efforts to get interconnected with the entrepreneur community," Zwilling says. Once, one of Meebos founders even played JavaScript bingo with people who showed up.

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Intellectual Property Los Angeles San Francisco New York 55

The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 1, 2010

In an age of technology where it is so easy to become isolated, the co-working movement has drawn those who work independently but still seek to be a part of a stimulating community. Bootstrapping entrepreneurs seek ways to keep their overhead low, especially in these uncertain economic times.

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Nashville San Francisco Bootstrapping Philadelphia 70

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In between sessions, this cohort of companies would have the opportunity to act as a learning community, sharing what theyve learned and supporting one another as they try to put the techniques into practice. Each half-day session would be held in downtown San Francisco in the late afternoon; dinner is included. Great idea.

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Lean Programming San Francisco Continuous Deployment 102

ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

Derek Shanahan , Chief Community Officer of Foodtree. The only 30-minute slot available required me to fly straight from an event in Europe to San Francisco, where the VC agreed to meet me at a conference. For over a year, we bootstrapped because we couldn’t raise funding. Choose your investors carefully.

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Cofounder Startup San Francisco Silicon Valley 140

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The accelerator provides equity-free financial support through AWS Promotional Credit, technical training and support, access to a global community of EdTech experts, and more. Current AWS loft locations include: New York , San Francisco , Tokyo , Paris (Station F) , and Tel-Aviv (Floor28).

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. Even if your own company isn’t newsworthy, you are on the ground in the startup community, and that is valuable. Although bootstrapping your startup is difficult, that in and of itself is not unique. Pitch late. The operative word in “news” is “new.”

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Seed Stage San Francisco Startup CTO Hire 120

The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Then we tried to find ways to be more active in the developers community so we, quite by accident, started an events business and threw European Rails Conference Railsberry. It was a huge success, we attracted all best names in the community and people loved it! TNW: You’re Polish but recently moved to San Francisco.

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San Francisco Cofounder Founder Poland 136

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 31, 2015

But today, there’s an equally viable route where one can bootstrap his or her way to becoming an investor. The rise of the bootstrapping VC is made possible by micro-funds. Many in the VC community are incredibly generous when it comes to sharing their insights and experiences via blogging and social media.

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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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Cofounder San Francisco Social Media Startup 81

Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Thanks to thousands of donations, the people who are dedicated to feeding their communities have the opportunity to serve their food to the people providing critical healthcare. And so an extra special thank you on behalf of all of us in the city of San Francisco for what you're doing. Sydney Gressel : Thanks so much.

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San Francisco Founder Community Software Review 68

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

A mutual friend connected me in San Francisco with Ori in New York. We were bootstrapping the company’s funding, so we could not afford to hire a firm to help us come up with a company name. Ori had been working in advertising for 7 years but had been waiting to find the right start-up opportunity. 19 – A True Measure.

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Naming Entrepreneur Haiti Nigeria 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

My wife and our one-year-old Vizsla dog, Neo, are holed up in Dolores Heights in San Francisco. And also more broadly that the scientific community will continue to embrace this spirit of open data sharing. What's your quarantine setup like? Hannu Rajaniemi : I feel very lucky and grateful, Eric. Hannu Rajaniemi : I do, I do.

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Founder Technical Review Leadership Software Review 60

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

but most are coalescing around the Palo Alto – San Mateo – San Francisco center of the universe. It’s very rare that they actually successfully bootstrapped, because it’s just so hard to do if you can’t invest any money. He is an active member of the blogging community.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If we could get the the right crypto products and services into underserved communities we could vastly improve lives and eliminate poverty. We bootstrapped this venture, so while there aren’t many perks, being able to go from a white board to a green golf course in 10 minutes is a bonus. Working at startups means working in teams.

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Houston Phoenix Cofounder San Francisco 63

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

And between the free and premium programs, as well as the blog, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, we have a community of more than 200,000 people engaged in the initiative at various levels. Vikrant Mathur, from the San Francisco Bay Area, presented iFood.tv , a large community of cooking lesson videos where food lovers learn to cook.

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118