Bootstrapping, Cost, Internet and New York City

7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.

New York City

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review

How I Knew That I Could Bootstrap My Company

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

In the realm of software and internet companies, 2006 was a whole different landscape, and it was the year that I founded JotForm. At the time, most users accessed the web through Internet Explorer. Determining if your product can be bootstrapped. Business decisions must be made carefully at a bootstrapped company.

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Bootstrapping San Francisco New York City Software Developers

7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.

New York City

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping

7 New Venture Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.

New York City

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review

Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.

New York City

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review

7 Startup Scenarios That May Be Judged Non-Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.

New York City

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping

8 Challenges To Overcome In The Growth Of Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In this age of instant communication via the Internet, It’s ironic that I can now find out what’s going on around the world often more easily than in my own neighborhood. Expanding neighborhood-by-neighborhood or city-by-city is not a simple cookie-cutter process. Business founders need deep pockets for this model.

New York City

New York City Kansas Advertising Cash Position

Twitter Link Roundup #50 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Interesting perspective on why New York City could never compete in tech – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority – [link]. Historic Report: Solar Energy Costs Now Lower than Nuclear Energy – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

What Kind of Workspace Is Best For Your Startup?

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.

Cofounder

Cofounder San Francisco Social Media Startup

Starting a Web Business with Less than Your Monthly Rent (The $ by $ Guide)

Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2015

As a New-York-City-based startup founder, I’ve been asked these questions many times. For this reason, I’ve arbitrarily picked our budget to be one month of New York City rent: $3,836. Traffic is the currency of the internet and while it’s hard to drive traffic consistently, it’s not impossible.

New York City

New York City Web New York San Francisco

The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. And Apple used the capacitive touch screen to develop a new paradigm for computing. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

Cofounder

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Second,) we learned that 3D was very effective in doing so…, but why hasn’t it become mainstream yet? … (The reason was) because it wasn’t cost effective. It took too long to develop and … it really wasn’t ubiquitously accessible. I don’t know if I would have leveraged that better back then.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Investment Bankers

Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This will cost you some real cash- at least $5K for your first version. It won’t cost you real money other than your living expenses. I currently just started a tech blog to cover under the radar, bootstrapped startups and this is great advice for the startups I cover and my readers. We tried this at Yipit and failed.

Cofounder

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Ruby

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What Kind of Workspace Is Best For Your Startup?

Starting a Web Business with Less than Your Monthly Rent (The $ by $ Guide)

The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

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