A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". WhenBusy is a bootstrapped startup that lets people schedule meetings with you in currently-available time-slots without you having to share your calendar [disclosure: I'm an advisor].

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 26, 2011

For other local bootstrapping resources here in Austin, check out the Bootstrap Austin site. Here are just a few tips on bootstrapping your new startup that I have found particularly beneficial from my own experience: Outsourcing. Another effective bootstrapping technique you can use is partnering with a complementary business.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

By bootstrapping, bartering, reducing overheads (rental and manpower), and leveraging technology (especially the web), one can start one’s own business almost on a dime without being beholden to creditors or venture capitalists. Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. What does it cost to acquire a new customer? What is our viral spread coefficient?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

WordPress theme development and ThemeForest sales are possible ventures, depending on your skill level. If you have a basic understanding of CSS, HTML, and JS and want to create a WordPress theme, you can do it with Bootstrap and then share it on GetBootstrap, even if you don't know much about WordPress.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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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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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. where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. It costs twice as much to generate the same results from the same marketing tactics.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

. “’Lost and Founder’ is a brutally open and honest recounting of Fishkin’s unlikely path to launching his own software company, and then stepping away from it after it grew to be a multimillion-dollar business,” Michael says.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. 7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. 7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link].

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Recruiting Developers? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The Jeff Bezos School of Long-Term Thinking – [link].

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. Many folks, including me , have written about the trends that are driving down costs. In some cases costs today are 1/10 that of even 5 years ago. AWS is a great example.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

If you’re bootstrapping, you don’t need to worry about either of these options. So far we have no office, minimal travel and other cost cutting, but we are slowly getting stronger and our outside funding needs are getting more strategic. This is not a good time to ask for outside funding. Option Three: Or don’t raise funding.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

Plus, starting an online business of course has it’s costs, but with a multitude of solutions out there (with Subbly being one of them) you don’t need to spend thousands on software development or marketing to validate your business idea.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If you want to build a business that requires software, be prepared to invest a little money. I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. The business geek needed a working software prototype and the programmer needed experience.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. Bottom-Up There are many bottom-up approaches to sizing a market; I discuss the approach I use in my developer’s guide to launching a startup.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

Between the various things I’ve been doing and my own efforts I started noticing just how much time in this business goes into context work — all of the stuff besides the core of what your are building — and how hard it is, how much you have to sacrifice, especially if you are bootstrapping.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. SEO Pricing: 600+ Agencies Share Costs of Services & Pricing Models | Moz – crowdspring.co/1f86l3x. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

The Details It seems like it would be impossible to find someone to even partially fund development of an application. Here’s the deal: I work in the bootstrapped startup world and in this arena you don’t need $500k to build a product. Think 1-3 person teams who release v1.0 Why Don’t More Startups Do This?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters. First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). What will it cost to build your project?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Historic Report: Solar Energy Costs Now Lower than Nuclear Energy – [link]. Legal risks and dangers of $99 logo stores – [link].

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The goals of a venture capitalist are to maximize the return on investments that pan out and minimize the costs of investments that will not. Some will fail quickly, others will flail for a while, and a few will succeed. In the end, this hopefully results in a profit for the venture capitalist. Myth #3: I need a partner.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Oprius – A contact management software designed for independent sales people. helpdeskpilot – Help desk software that includes email integration, a knowledge base and more.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There was ZERO cost for attendees because the costs were covered by sponsors (Thank you sponsors!). CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. President of The Tech Museum.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There was ZERO cost for attendees because the costs were covered by sponsors (Thank you sponsors!). CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. President of The Tech Museum.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. " And looking at the requirements, I didnt think it was difficult to find a programmer to develop that.

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