Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Customer service and support.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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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 is our lifetime customer value and how can we drive that up?

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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. He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder. My guest today is Lloyed Lobo.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

How To Turn Good Ideas Into Great Products – crowdspring.co/T83uRB. The Optimal Average Customer Value for SaaS Startups – crowdspring.co/1ib05xm. How many SaaS companies still have freemium products? If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales? LaunchBit – LaunchBit crowdspring.co/1vtjWKi.

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Transformify

MAY 28, 2018

Now Hiring for an Intermediate C++ 3D Graphics Developer As part of the project team, your role will include leveraging the latest tools and technology in C++ 3D graphics for a diverse selection of desktop application software projects, as well as collaborating with your team in building innovative software products.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. Growth rates for Apple’s four major hardware product lines – pic.twitter.com/apLp6PsiHX. A 3-Day Weekend…Every Weekend?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

7 Crucial Lessons from an Embarrassing Customer Service Trainwreck | Help Scout - [link]. Seth’s Blog: The cycle of customers who care - [link]. The product lens - [link]. The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Have we even noticed?

Social Media 104

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

@crowdSPRING SmallBiz Newsletter: new 1099 rules, biz plans, building software products – [link]. Being bad to your customers is bad for business – [link]. Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link]. Being bad to your customers is bad for business – [link]. Ideas for effective testimonials: [link].

Social Media 93

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

2500+ Free Custom Photoshop Shapes | [link] – [link]. 13 Resources to Design for Bootstrap | Vandelay Design Blog – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Case Study – Fabule Custom Type Logo | Abduzeedo – [link].

Social Media 93

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

There is tremendous legal support behind our products, but people need to FEEL comfortable as well. It’s a lot easier to tell customers “Try our FREE signing website, you can sign documents with a mouse or on your iphone!&# One example is outsourcing our original software development and it eventually had to be redone.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Both products were innovative leaders. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. You need to explore more common and more productive approaches for getting your startup moving forward. Both were discontinued years ago.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: 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. The trade-off, though, is a more structured presentation format.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

One characteristic remains: the products subscription businesses can provide, ranging from magazine subscriptions to literally anything, can appear on a customer’s doorstep every day, week, month or year. Through customer acquisition, you’ll work to grow the revenue and then, use that revenue to cover operational costs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Creating Customers for Life: 50 Resources on Loyalty, Churn, and Customer Retention | Help Scout – crowdspring.co/1lD094d. Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. Product lessons we can learn from Google+ | Inside Intercom – crowdspring.co/1o6ZpYG.

Social Media 93

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Services like Volusion and Shopify or DIY products like X-Cart , are numerous and often quite mature. Between the long traditions of forum and chat software and the rapidly growing areas of social networking services, you can build a significant community online without much in the way of hardcore development.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

I grew up working in flea markets, and my family was entrepreneurial, not in the tech side of things or anything, but in different ways, and was always working side projects and jobs for people as a developer. We do a lot of soul searching around how do we built this product, when nobody knows it exist.

Kansas City 40

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2010

On October 14th Tech Ranch will be hosting a Venture Pitch event, where 10 entrepreneurs will be pitching their idea to a panel including a potential customer, a proven entrepreneur, and a seasoned investor. Brian is an independent software developer, entrepreneur and proud Longhorn. How are you going to find customers?&# ).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

9 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Their Customers – crowdspring.co/1loBthB. 9 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Their Customers – crowdspring.co/1loBthB. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Thinking about buying some online ads?

Social Media 96

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Repeat after me: business is always about the customer – [link]. Repeat after me: business is always about the customer – [link]. 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Name dropping!

Social Media 94

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

5 Ways to Create an Engaging Customer Experience – crowdspring.co/W6LVm2. Why Responsive Web Design Helps People Buy Your Product | Inc – crowdspring.co/1psW8QW. My Golden Rule for Pitching Your Startup or Product – crowdspring.co/1n4zIpz. 40 Extensions And Plugins For Extending Bootstrap – crowdspring.co/1w2XjfG.

Social Media 92

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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.

Marketing 64

Marketing Software Review Matching Bootstrapping 64

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link]. 12 Cool Products for your Kitchen – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Dealing With Customer Resistance To Change – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 88

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. How To Turn Your Online Visitors Into Customers Without Them Even Knowing – crowdspring.co/1fLcnYW. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. – crowdspring.co/1fad0uP.

Social Media 95

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was surprised by this, as I thought Seth was going to discuss another option I’ve seen used with great success: customer financing. That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Innovation: What are the best new products that people don’t know about? 100 Free Photoshop Brushes For Designers – [link].

Social Media 100

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

20 Most Creative Product Packaging Designs - crowdspring.co/1mqyhFi. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Showcase of Useful Bootstrap Tools For Web Developers - crowdspring.co/1kY1Qey. 25 Rockin’ Rocket Logos | [Re] crowdspring.co/1lNUUDJ

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Over 100 Strategies for Providing Outstanding Customer Service – [link]. The Web Entrepreneur’s Customer Service Toolbox: 100 Hacks and Resources – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport – [link]. 3 Keys To Increasing Customer Loyalty With Social Media – [link].

Social Media 96

Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Over 100 Strategies for Providing Outstanding Customer Service – [link]. The Web Entrepreneur’s Customer Service Toolbox: 100 Hacks and Resources – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport – [link]. 3 Keys To Increasing Customer Loyalty With Social Media – [link].

Social Media 96

Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Optimizing your Customer Acquisition Funnel – [link]. Why software startups decide to patent … or not – [link]. Optimizing your Customer Acquisition Funnel – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. Legal risks and dangers of $99 logo stores – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Myth #2: I need to have a perfect product. Often, you will see a large company put enough marketing muscle behind a mediocre product to generate a profit from it. Let’s turn the tables and think about an off the wall question: Do you even need a product? In fact, not having one can be more helpful than anything else.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Accounting, Billing, Invoicing, Estimating & Contracts LiteAccounting – Invoice and track payment from your customers without a bunch of extra, useless features. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. While customers will be willing to try your product, they think two steps ahead. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies.

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