Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Just as a refresher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. To begin drop-shipping, you must locate a supplier and develop a website.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Let’s take an example – In the case of an internet or app business, the user traction and market penetration is a must. Once the order is fulfilled and paid for, the funds can be paid back. ? Research and development. Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The cost of entry has never been lower. Life is more fun that way.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Apple, for example, is the world's most valuable business, yet the iOS operating system enables firms like Facebook to use an already-existing infrastructure to accelerate their mobile development. Social media’s importance and influence will only grow as the internet becomes more and more of a staple in people’s daily lives.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. Except in certain industries (e.g. We're better at SEO and social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The cost of entry has never been lower. Life is more fun that way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The cost of entry has never been lower. Life is more fun that way.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Develop your business plan. Product development process. 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. Funding process.

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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. It’s clear why positive cash flow is a holy grail of lifestyle businesses, but is there more to it?

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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. [link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? What would their reward be?

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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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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Examples of this are the 30+ people that Craigslist employs, a platform accessed by millions, if not billions, of internet users every day. In the fintech ecosystem, the development of a product could mean the transfer of billions of dollars per month, and consumer product creation and delivery can have an impact on a vast network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The cost of entry has never been lower. Life is more fun that way.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

Thanks to the wealth of opportunities provided by the internet, college students no longer have to wait on tables or tend bar to earn extra money. There are dozens of online jobs that students can do , with nothing more than a laptop and an internet connection. It’s easier to bootstrap. Earning money at college.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. I’m in development right now. Dan: The question is really directed towards the definition of Internet scale. 99%, maybe 99.8%

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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?". OK, so what can you do to rise above the cacophony that is the Internet? We do that for software developers, integrating with their tools instead of Word and working within their standard practices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Seed-round investment. Super-angel investors (micro-VCs). Ramen-profitable.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

While my portfolio is primarily centered around consumer internet as well as enterprise SaaS startups, I typically talk to two to three hardware startups each week. Instead of taking a year to develop and launch one product, it might be advantageous to run through four development cycles in smaller batches.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development?

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Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

Back then I could think of no other place to be; it was the kitchen of the internet. I was fortunate to live through several waves of crazy growth: first, internet infrastructure and basic applications that needed to exist. The role of most developers at these companies is to glue cloud services together. marijuana delivery).

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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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. When selling Smart Bear I had an M&A guy pull data about other companies which (a) sold development tools, (b) were sold recently, (c) were profitable, and (d) were growing. They wanted to control Internet telephony, and Skype was the clear winner.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

First and foremost, succeeding as a Digital Entrepreneur (my new catch-all keyword for traditional funded startups, unfunded startups, microISVs, indie game developers and content creators like bands and authors. I believe the Internet rewards original content and punishes unoriginal content , be it software, ideas, or products.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. 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 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

But, his tenacity is impresive: he pulled himself back up by the bootstraps, and founded Nextiva which today generates more than $100M ARR. Thanks to Yaniv Masjedi, Nextiva ! #4- 4- My story in the publishing sector. Photo Credit: Joel Poznansky. Turned out moving it from print to digital got me only 20% of the way to a systemic fix.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 14, 2021

This model of building layered protocols like Lightning on top of Bitcoin has always intuitively made sense to me and appears most analogous to what played out in the first Internet wave (ala TCP/IP). . The developer network effects there are very real. And the tools for developers to build Web 3.0 blockchain.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

. “part of the uniqueness of Linktree is its deceptively simple design” According to one of the co-founders, Alex Zaccaria, Linktree’s site was developed in 6 hours but was bootstrapped and cash flow positive from the very beginning. ” Bootstrapped and Global from Day One: The Story of Linktree.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

I like doing anything and everything I can over the internet. Some might say this is because I am a college-aged millennial whose social skills have been stunted by technology, but I think it has more to do with the ease, convenience and immediacy the internet provides. The internet will prevail. Internet’s got your back.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

There is an enormous difference, for example, between a high-growth internet-related company looking for second-round venture funding and a local retail store looking to finance a second location. If you are looking for names and addresses of venture capitalists , start with the internet. Venture capital deals are extremely rare.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2011

Turning an Addiction into a Bootstrapped Startup – [link]. 33 Essential Resources for Developers & Designers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 33 Essential Resources for Developers & Designers – [link].

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