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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. Furthermore, he explains six common traits, referred to as “CAMPER” – Connection, Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose, Energy, and Recognition – which are crucial for building thriving and sustainable communities.

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How to Establish an Agency Content Strategy When Outbound Stops Working

ConversionXL

Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Writing this report in an editorial-style provides a reference about your audience that’s easy to digest. Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding.

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How to Raise Investment Capital - According to VC Jeff Clavier

ReadWriteStart

He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. He believes that equity need not be distributed equally, as long as everyone involved is happy with their arrangement. How to Hack the Investment World. The stages of funding.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I continually hear this reference to Internet scale, and I’m trying to get an idea of what people like Mark and other Vcs, when it comes to mind, when you’re looking at products and you say Internet scale, what does that really mean to you? or an MSN or an AOL in terms of portal distribution. I bootstrapped it on my own.

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You Don’t Have To Be A Super Hero To Be A Successful Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

With bootstrapping, you make it enough by tapping into your means and leveraging the heck out of that $5,000 to start your business. Until you can produce revenue and profit to meet your second money number, you should not cut off or quit your primary source of income. The answer is how much you are willing to lose. Form Partnerships.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

I studied every page and example in the Apple II Reference Manual (the “Red Book&# ). When I first started program, it was 1979. I started on an Apple II – I learned BASIC, Pascal, and 6502 Assembler.