crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link]. How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

It’s looking equally good for the bootstrapped and indie-funded marketplaces too. You’ll get quicker and quicker each time you do it, and soon your reputation will precede you due to pent-up demand from buyers and sellers. One of the highest we saw in 2020 was Ke.com , a Chinese platform for buying and selling properties.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

Days before the conference started, I was asked (and felt honored) to lead two workshops on bootstrapping vs. raising money. Having started and sold 3 successful bootstrapped businesses, and am now running 1 venture capital backed business ( Coach ), this is a topic I know a thing or two about. What's “good” about bootstrapping.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

And so that book, the book is designed to give entrepreneurs really practical and concrete advice on how to avoid all the pitfalls of doing a startup and act and come out on top. Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. Show us that demand.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

Manufacturing innovations like 3D printing support quicker and cheaper prototyping and design. To increase your chances of venture capital financing, you’ll need to lower the risks as much as possible, such as: Bootstrapping as long as you can to get a working prototype into the market. The making of a hardware revolution.

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Venture Capital Software Review Incubator Startup 128

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Increasingly, seed rounds occur after some sort of pre-seed or at least some period of bootstrapping. In most cases, the two most important things to prove early on are 1) that the founders can attract A+ talent and 2) that there are signals of market demand for their product. But this is a trap.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2020

Throw anything like big bills, bull markets, or broken equipment into the mix, and bootstrapped businesses can really start to struggle. Have a Designated Emergency Fund. Imagine, for one reason or another (be it a global pandemic or a natural disaster) that demand for your product or service dries up overnight. Let us help.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Yet, investors and analysts demand it. Is it cheaper for them to design and experiment with their own technology from scratch, or to acquire something existing and proven? Whether a brand new bootstrapped startup or corporate giant, your altitude, sustainability, and traction has everything to do with your team.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ? It’s absolutely beautiful and a stunning example of what you can do with the SimpleGeo API.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Avoid the bootstrap trap. Craft a well-designed offer. securities laws were designed as concrete regulations to protect people from making naive investments. They’re often satisfied with a lower financial return that those demanded by angels and venture capitalists. 82% of startups fail due to cash flow problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI is really designed to replace equity with a patient, flexible, long-term growth funding framework while factoring, MCAs and receivables financing are more of a short-term, working capital oriented set of solutions.” . The RBI investment model better aligns incentives between VCs and a founder who chooses to bootstrap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. The site I co-founded, DesignCrowd.com, grew from a garage office to a thriving marketplace with 148,000 designers, and businesses who have created $12 million worth of jobs, in just a few years by applying these ideas.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If there isn’t a demand for the product or service that you want to sell, or you are overpricing it, then it can lead to disaster. Design a Great Website. From there, you need to decide if you are able to build a website yourself, or if you need to recruit the help of a web design company. Build the Right Product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

For those that are familiar with Studio Press, it was pretty much the industry standard for word press things for many, many years powered by the [Janis 00:01:44] framework, which is our design framework that makes word press more powerful and easier to use. Why can’t you do design for me? We came together in 2010.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2014

What’s often been labeled the ‘Maker Movement’, we’re in a time when independent designers, developers, tinkerers and engineers can come up with a unique offering and within a few days have hundreds of thousands of people backing them online through these crowdfunding platforms.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! My guess: poor results & low demand – crowdspring.co/1gY63vJ. PSD Badges (Vintage, Retro) Style | Graphic Design Junction – crowdspring.co/1dgrAAw.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead, they prefer problems that gradually build on themselves and open-ended design and architecture questions. Or I can spend a year bootstrapping a startup in my off hours and get it up to tens of thousands of users. For a bit more about what TrialPay’s interview process looks like, check out Interviewing at TrialPay 101.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2015

The new industry wages undervalued her skills and years of experience; “For designers, it was getting tougher,” she says. “They didn’t want them to just design web pages and page layouts they wanted administrative and secretarial skills as well, which I felt would demean the profession.”.

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Trinidad Software Review Small Business Administration Small Business 60

Up and Running

MAY 22, 2017

From there, Meyer and his business partner Matt Bolduc got to work on the solution: natural and organic skincare products, designed for men first. If you need help validating the demand for your business idea, check out our article on demand validation. There are tons of resources to help you launch a bootstrapped business.

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Due Diligence eCommerce Cofounder Bootstrapping 113

Gust

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Or is it still possible to bootstrap and build a company organically? But this just illustrates the point that all sorts of businesses built on personal expertise – design skills, niche knowledge, industry relationships, etc. A gigantic percentage of startup literature concerns how to raise capital.

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Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Dilution Bootstrapping 127

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

IM Creator is gaining speed on its Israeli competitor Wix.com to become a leading WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web design website. Here is a 60-second tour of IM Creator: IM Creator is bootstrapped with $250k from the founder Jonathan Saragossi, and a few unknown angel investors. mo or $5.95/mo

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Homads is an online platform designed to help users sublet their home or apartment while helping other users find medium-term rentals in a community that feels like home. We’re big on bootstrapping and we’re really good at identifying “Yes.” The second reason I joined was: You can’t really ask for change if you don’t create demand.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. They clearly have user interest, but these companies will have a limited window before later stage investors start demanding to see some proof that these companies can be sustainable over the long run at the kind of prices that were paid.

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Technology Valuation Community Restful 128

Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Two-and-a-half months ago Einar Vollset and I announced TinySeed , the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2018

There’s usually not much money for expanding staffing before funding is secured, and many entrepreneurs are forced to wear different hats, dabbling in bookkeeping, customer service, copywriting, design—the list goes on. Payroll and benefits for are expensive, and even if your employees are also wearing many hats.

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Entrepreneur Algorithm Hiring Web Development 177

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

—– Earnest Capital invests in bootstrapped companies to help them unlock more growth. All Earnest investments are made using the Shared Earnings Agreement (SEAL) – a custom salary/profit share structure, aligned with how most bootstrapped founders are compensated.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AWS EdStart – is the AWS educational technology (EdTech) startup accelerator, designed to help entrepreneurs build the next generation of online learning, analytics, and campus management solutions on the AWS Cloud. Amazon AppStore – The Amazon Appstore (mobile/tablet) for Android and Fire OS operated by Amazon.com.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 5, 2015

VC backed startups, by design, are on a different timeline with a different measure of success for all involved. My partner Tim bootstrapped his business to 9 figures in revenue without taking any outside investment. is designed to test whether that sense we have is real.

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San Francisco Cap Table Non-Compete Distribution 40

Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2015

Every entrepreneur has heard of the Lean Startup methodology ; it’s a great way to prove demand with less time and money and to prevent building a product that no one will want. You’ll also want to customize your look through WordPress themes or graphic design. Please Note: all figures mentioned were accurate at the time of writing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

My good friends and I, all aged 21, were working on a design inspiration blog and curating content for designers and artists. The capital earned in the agency was used to bootstrap the progression of the key business we wanted to launch. When you are bootstrapping cash flow is king. It is tough when you can’t.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

Now, we have a well-calculated formula for launching businesses that are 100% bootstrapped with a very small amount of initial capital. The founding team and I have gone back and forth on many designs for Riku and I am quite happy with where we have landed. In 2016, we founded Melt On Demand together, an on-demand massage company.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review South Korea United States 147

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Is your business idea focused mainly on product promotion, or the service through careful experience design? Simple: through the package’s shape and design, but also through explanations and the product arrangement and choice. I bootstrapped Subbly by building an MVP (“minimum viable product”). Convenience. Usefulness.

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Curation Business Model SEO Social Media 68

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Industrial Design: Design matters. Especially if you’re building a consumer hardware product; as consumer expectations have been shaped by companies like Apple and that’s the level of design and attention to detail consumers have come to expect. Sourcing: Ah, sourcing. The same applies for packaging as well.

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Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned. Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned. Bootstrapping. October 2010. September 2010. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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