Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. 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.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

But, what constitutes success for the parties involved – investors, entrepreneurs, employees, and customers – can vary dramatically. Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow? Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow?   If the answer is relatively soon, then bootstrapping is a very serious consideration. 

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Are there customers for what you are building? How many are there? Can it scale?”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. It’s a hard thing to do because what makes word press so powerful is just being able to use any plug-in, any theme, mix and match, put it together your own way. It was always at the customer level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

You can pour your heart and soul (and life savings) into a venture, do all your due diligence, toil 80- and 90-hour weeks, and just when you’re on the verge of a breakthrough, a dark horse competitor sweeps in and decimates your market share. If you lose a customer due to price or other circumstances beyond your control, then fine.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Then we ship it to customers way before it’s ready. Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We We didn’t spend any real cash prior to getting our first paying customer,” recounts Arsenault. “I’ll Qualified.io

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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. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Jason: So how many of those 20,000 people are paying customers? Edwin: Okay, I have different types of customers.

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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. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Then we ship it to customers way before it’s ready. Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We We didn’t spend any real cash prior to getting our first paying customer,” recounts Arsenault. “I’ll Qualified.io

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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. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

They also have varying definitions of “mobile,” which I found while reviewing 15 responsive grid systems. I reviewed 15 responsive CSS frameworks to see how each approached the problem of adapting to mobile. Lacking vertical alignment, all of the frameworks were technically half grids. The landscape.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

If you decided to start a digital marketing agency, you might figure out from the start, where you draw the line at customers. Do you want to tie your name to an oil industry, or offer a service that you may not be brilliant at, but that will attract a lot of customers? How will your customers get there? Who will you serve?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. But we managed to grow a few customers, so that’s good, in spite of the name. You are coordinating customers by email. Jason: There you go.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 A fashion executive wife and technology entrepreneur husband we were moving house and faced a vexing problem: how to sell their fabulous, nearly new furnishings that couldn’t fit into their new digs? a dating app that matches people according to their lifestyle.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

At the outset of a project is a perfect opportunity to build/choose/customize a CMS that works for you. You have options for just about every other technology you choose for a project, but you always need to use CSS. Even if it doesnt match your own style perfectly, consistency is the most important thing. Need a guide?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We are committed to delivering affordable and convenient bookings to our customers anywhere in Nigeria. There was also an opportunity to use technology to build a much more efficient business – one that could pass savings from those efficiencies onto borrowers. ” Thanks to Mark Essien, Hotels.ng ! Image Credit: Travis Good.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Because A/B testing considers only a part of the entire customer base (your sample), there are always uncertainties as to actual effects. The goal of the test, however, is to carry-over the effect measured by the test onto the entire customer base. Are customers using the new navigation exactly like the old one?

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that? Bootstrapping comes a little bit later, where this idea of throwing your own money into the mix, making it happen yourself is important. Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. That ink smell.

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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. Do not rely on SEO to market your product It sounds contradictory, but its true.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. Technology Poverty – Every revolution has its downsides – those who miss out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? And through not a lot of edits, this wasn't taking custom coding. Sydney Gressel : I've got to say, I've been like, "Oh, so this is how the tech world is, huh, guys?" I am Eric Ries. So Frontline Foods is a genuine win-win.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. But one thing they do have is a “channel,&# meaning an established pipeline wherein a product can be pushed (often by salesmen) into customer’s hands. Actually, no. Channels are often measured in the billions of dollars.

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