Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

Even if you are funding the project yourself (bootstrapping), you should be asking yourself the same question before you have burned all your resources. Word of mouth and viral marketing alone are not adequate, and a website is not all you need for credibility. Sell at least one at full price to a real customer to show traction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and support. An advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

And that’s when I created the Bootstrapping summit where I highlighted, where I documented the journey of 100 Bootstrap entrepreneurs, and that helped me get exposure to about 5,000 people, that is 5,000 subscribers, and was actually a lot more than 5,000. And my answer is distribution. Abdo Riani: Exactly.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. Step 5: Get financed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc.,

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program. What will you find here? Join the 2.3

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

It would be a hugely useful investment actually not just for vaccines but potentially creating bootstrapping an enormous amount of manufacturing capability for these new types of medicines that are currently very expensive to make because you don't have the scale to make them. Hannu Rajaniemi : Absolutely.

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