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. I asked their chief revenue officer, how do you do attribution on this community?

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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]. Just 25 Developers Grabbed 50% Of App Revenues On U.S. Recruiting Developers? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [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. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. June 17th, 2012.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

If you’ve already soft launched, have a product available, are telling the world about your awesome company but don’t have revenue/user growth, you’re probably in the red zone. If you’re bootstrapping, you don’t need to worry about either of these options. This is not a good time to ask for outside funding.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

Subscription business brings recurring revenue. This allows you to enjoy a constant source of incoming revenue, as long as you’re keeping the subscribers satisfied (that is of course essential). Through customer acquisition, you’ll work to grow the revenue and then, use that revenue to cover operational costs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". But how does authority convert to revenue? How can I answer this question? Common vision.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He’s been a developer/hacker for over 15 years, and he sold his first startup, VinSolutions for $150 million. 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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

In the last interview Peldi Guilizzoni (Balsamiq Studios) gave detailed advice about how he earned almost a million dollars in revenue in his first year of operation. How were you able to convert this knowledge into a software product? They're rarely actionable or insightful. This interview is uncommonly different.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

The embryos were combined to help scientists understand the role that specific genes play in embryonic development. Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. Revenue is the new black | Gigaom – [link]. Revenue Doesn’t Matter – [link]. IAB: US Interactive Ad Revenues Hit $9.3

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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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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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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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. The Details It seems like it would be impossible to find someone to even partially fund development of an application. But who needs revenue?)

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And James doesn’t have any money to pay for development. You’ll probably need to contact two dozen serial entrepreneurs with a very well-developed project before you get actionable advice and referrals. In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Go ahead and laugh, but over 95% of Moon River Software’s revenue this year has been from consulting services. The software I sell has made up less than 5% of total revenue in the past 12 months. 1 day ago Well, I'm up and running on Windows 7 now on my development box. Myth #3: I need a partner.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. President of The Tech Museum. Founder of JackCards.com. Senior (Health) Benefits Consultant. Check out the tweets here.

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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. Defensibility in Software. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. 15 minutes.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. President of The Tech Museum. Founder of JackCards.com. Senior (Health) Benefits Consultant. Check out the tweets here.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Heres the source code,” make sure you finish with something like, “For completion of this project, please have this up and running on a development webserver I can access to test its functionality as described.” The requirements are as follows.”

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