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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Transformify

MAY 28, 2018

As a skilled C++ 3D Graphics Developer, you would be part of a dedicated team for desktop application development projects and an integral part of Scopic. Though we’re a big team overall, each project is made up of small teams to remain agile and maintain good communication. What we do Custom solutions for virtually everything.

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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.

Intellectual Property 309

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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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

By bootstrapping, bartering, reducing overheads (rental and manpower), and leveraging technology (especially the web), one can start one’s own business almost on a dime without being beholden to creditors or venture capitalists. Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”.

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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.

Entrepreneur 120

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 29, 2013

” Easy for them to say, but what about a bootstrapped, profit-driven business? Profit-seeking bootstrapped companies cannot afford those delusions. But a bootstrapped company’s cash-flow won’t allow it, even if the math would work in the long run. ” Here’s my way.

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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

Once the order is fulfilled and paid for, the funds can be paid back. ? Research and development. In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. Bootstrapping. Royalty based investment. Seed stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 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. Following is my prioritized larger list of sources, with some “rules of thumb” which may save you a lot of time and energy: Bootstrapping. Friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. There is no black magic involved in predicting the future, if you use these four simple steps, with my basic rules of thumb to keep you on the right track: Determine your margin on sales. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

There was time to develop the vision of the piece before implementing it, but that’s harder to quantify. I can see how social management can be one person’s job, but that’s not always possible while bootstrapping. He shares his learnings for startup founders here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

A simple example might be a mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The logic behind all these features is millions of lines of code, and cost millions of dollars to develop and maintain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

The sales professional. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. Or you can always bootstrap the idea yourself, get some traction, and build your first startup organically.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

While you may be enamored with becoming an entrepreneur and bootstrapping your business, don’t quit your day job. There’s actually a lot of value in bootstrapping your business. You can be increasing revenue, growing sales, and maybe even cutting costs. Don’t quit your day job. Have enough cash on hand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

The sales professional. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. Or you can always bootstrap the idea yourself, get some traction, and build your first startup organically.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

Here are some tips for bootstrapping your business. There are subscription services like this for email, sales planning, CRM, project management, accounting and cloud storage. Develop a Budget. Lewis Robinson is a business consultant specializing in social media marketing, CRM, and sales. Work in a Spare Room.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

In my businesses we’ve seen that often the sales person who sells the most is the best writer: talking the talk is easy, backing it up with an effective, pitch-perfect email is much harder. Master the art of bootstrapping: aim to “bootstrap” first. Be curious and adventurous: think like The North Face. Do something.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

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. Following is my prioritized larger list of sources, with some “rules of thumb” which may save you a lot of time and energy: Bootstrapping. Friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The logic behind all these features is millions of lines of code, and cost millions of dollars to develop and maintain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The logic behind all these features is millions of lines of code, and cost millions of dollars to develop and maintain.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

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

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. Find out who is good.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

With their affordability, you can invest in several and gain more return by earning customer trust before a sale occurs. 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.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Anticipating the challenges of due diligence helped me to crystallize our tech development strategy and the sales strategy, and guided our financial planning. We bootstrapped our minimum lovable product and it will launch in December 2018 with eight brands, plus we have more partners in the pipeline. If so, how?

Technical Review 154

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A sales team is the lifeblood of any B2B organization. To put this in other words, the success of a business depends to a great extent on their sales team. Typically, new SDRs (Sales development representatives) are made to ‘shadow’ senior members of the sales team in order to pick up the nuances of trade and build their expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. Develop a personal story as a visionary and learner. In reality, that’s only half the story. He didn’t have any big technical shoe innovations.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Bootstrapping 101. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. Bootstrapping 101.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. There is no black magic involved in predicting the future, if you use these four simple steps, with my basic rules of thumb to keep you on the right track: Determine your margin on sales. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

Forecast 369

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Gust

JUNE 17, 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. Following is my prioritized larger list of sources, with some “rules of thumb” which may save you a lot of time and energy: Bootstrapping. Friends and family.

Technical Review 164

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. The logic behind all these features is millions of lines of code, and cost millions of dollars to develop and maintain.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

The sales professional. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. Or you can always bootstrap the idea yourself, get some traction, and build your first startup organically.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Agencies looking to grow have traditionally relied on fostering strategic relationships to land deals and increase sales. In this article, I’ll outline how to create an agency content strategy that fuels your business development efforts and generates the optimal kind of organic traffic.

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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. They said sales and marketing. My guest today is Lloyed Lobo. So do follow me there.

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