YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

If the world’s best known ecommerce brand is so committed to cross-selling and upselling, bootstrapped ecommerce stores cannot afford not to do the same. Leverage Email Marketing. Email marketing is almost as old as the Internet. It’s especially potent today when the average adult can access their emails on their smartphone.

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eCommerce SMS Email Video 136

Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

The name is self-explanatory—you offer an app for free and charge for in-app purchases and add-ons to provide users with a better experience or bring extra value. If you are a bootstrapped DIY solopreneur, you should estimate your chances and think twice before choosing your VC-funded, 200-employees-strong competitor’s pricing strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. Steve Hoffman (06:08): If you don't get the right people on board, you know, hire them really hard to succeed, marketing, getting your name out. Sign up to receive email updates. Like this show?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

As you’ve bootstrapped your business, you’ve had to synthesize a lot of new information, and you’ve had to frequently learn by doing. An easy way to track what’s being said about your business is to set up Google alerts, which will send you emails when your business name, your name, or any other relevant search term is found on the web.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 26, 2011

I received an email from Sramana Mitra today with her ten most popular blog posts of 2011. This then led me to an old post of hers asking whether bootstrapping is taught in bschools. Bootstrapping I feel, is taken for granted. Bootstrapping I feel, is taken for granted. This is so incorrect. Louis University.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

A Two-part Rule for Naming Your Startup – [link]. Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link]. 24 Email Newsletters Inspiration For Your Next Campaign – [link]. Process – [link]. Entrepreneurs Are Living The Dream, But Are They Happy? – [link]. “be better, be different or be cheaper. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Everybody's so bootstrapped and so tight on dollars. You wanna tell people, obviously we've mentioned the name Hello Alice, but uh, you want to tell people where they can, uh, connect with you and find out more about Hello Alice? Sign up to receive email updates. Follow HelloAlice on Twitter. Follow Carolyn on Twitter.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

With respect to the 2nd point, namely that engineers shouldn’t be held to the same writing standards as people in more humanities-oriented fields, I give you my next chart. Or I can spend a year bootstrapping a startup in my off hours and get it up to tens of thousands of users. Name (required). Leave a Reply.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

A few years back Google Ventures’ partner Rick Klau ran an experiment on his Twitter follow list and noticed he underfollowed women because his phone contact list (what is often used to bootstrap social graphs) biased male. He took steps to fix it. What does this have to do with gender?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

Content companies, for example, should be able to amass traffic and sell advertising on a bootstrapped budget before they come close to seeking equity financing—because you can, and because that’s the market expectation and that’s what your competitors are already doing. How about doing what Gilt Groupe did?

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New York City New York Startup Burn Rate 113

The Next Web

MAY 2, 2013

Pancake Labs is bootstrapped; numbers indicating the success of its flagship product include acquiring more than 80,000 users during the company’s first year. In 2012, Jim was named Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by the Nevada Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, honored as a top 20 business leader under age 40 in Reno, Nev.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 29, 2018

Some of you can guess that name of the group. The angels argued about whether the expansion was too quick, requiring additional money, or should be slower and bootstrapped with profits from the first city’s success.

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The Next Web

MAY 1, 2013

Pancake Labs is bootstrapped; numbers indicating the success of its flagship product include acquiring more than 80,000 users during the company’s first year. In 2012, Jim was named Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by the Nevada Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, honored as a top 20 business leader under age 40 in Reno, Nev.

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Nevada Founder Social Media Cofounder 112

Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

We had bootstrapped to the point where my co-founder was already working 100% with the company, and I was closely behind. Thinking about it now, once we got the email saying we had gotten an interview, I knew we were in. We were committed to doing the company full time. There are just too many variables: who reads your app?

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Cofounder Texas Video Software Review 48

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I should have known that when we picked a company name like Hustle Fund, it would lead entrepreneurs to introduce themselves as “real hustlers”. Ignoring lots of emails. But, I think my definition of hustle is very nuanced, and it’s not what most people think it is. This means saying no to meetings that will lead nowhere.

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Bootstrapping Revenue Portfolio Startup 91

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Well, that’s fine as far as it goes but when you’re a startup and you don’t have customers yet you need a way to bootstrap and that can feel awfully chaotic and wasteful. I think Jim Murphys confusion comes where many peoples did, with the XP term "Customer", which was XPs name for the product management role.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So I took my sweet time Googling different websites that would take submissions, tips or published their editor’s email. Subscribe to our RSS feed or get Traindom blog posts sent to you by email. Reply SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups | Shark SEO says: November 19, 2010 at 10:04 am [.] Are they in any particular order?

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Technical Review Startup Software Review PR 63

venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

You can’t answer emails during normal business hours. But then you don’t have a phone number and emails sent to you at 10:00am don’t get answered until that night (which means they’re not viewed until the following day). Then they have 100 emails you sent during work hours. This is not a bad thing.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Global 41

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A lifelong entrepreneur, Jason has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list and was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Midwest. Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John (00:08): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch. John (02:33): Yeah. That's right.

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2015

To do this, you’ll need a unique web address or domain name. A few years back dot com domain names commanded a premium, but now, given the heavy dominance of search and social, dot com domains are not as necessary. GoDaddy is an easy and inexpensive source for a domain name. a month with WordPress hosting and a free domain name.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 10, 2010

When a potential buyer made a search, they grabbed their email or phone number and said "Thanks, we're going to find you a great deal by Thursday." Their pitch was awesome: "I've got a lead for you; his name is John Doe and he's looking for a 10x20 with air conditioning. Instead SpareFoot decided to automate nothing.

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Business Model Finder SEO Bootstrapping 310

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Entrepreneurs are often wearing ALL the hats in the business while they're bootstrapping through growth. Because of limited budgets, business owners cobble together multiple systems like email marketing , spreadsheets, sticky notes, whiteboards, task management, etc. These are Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs, to name a few.

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Artificial Inteligence Technology Entrepreneur Cloud 105

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2012

David Heinemeier Hansson doesn’t deserve to be alive either for instance — he makes millions of dollars at his bootstrapped, profitable, beloved business , he’s honored by geeks for creating Ruby on Rails , he’s a New York Times best-selling author and a race car driver, and all this with a 30-hour work-week.

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New York Ruby Social Media RSS 248

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I should have known that when we picked a company name like Hustle Fund, it would lead entrepreneurs to introduce themselves as “real hustlers”. Ignoring lots of emails. But, I think my definition of hustle is very nuanced, and it’s not what most people think it is. This means saying no to meetings that will lead nowhere.

Bootstrapping 48

Bootstrapping Revenue Portfolio Startup 48

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2012

While you do need some money to get started, you can seriously reduce the amount if you take advantage of some key bootstrapping strategies. Just remember that oversight is critical — anything you outsource will ultimately bear your company’s name, so never compromise on quality. Not so fast. Remember our laundry room?

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Balance Sheet Bootstrapping Advertising Partner 203

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. Meetings are definitely one of those places, but email is another primary way that that comes in. Edwin: Correct, I fully agree and the name MeetingKing already says that my initial focus definitely was on meetings, right? That’s a challenge.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

This is for the early-stage companies — the entrepreneurs with great ideas and tireless work ethics who feel like they’ve emailed half of the country’s news outlets with nothing but the rare “thanks, but not interested” reply to show for it. If you email the same boilerplate pitch to 60 publications, believe me, journalists can tell.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Startup CTO Hire 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Here’s an email I got last week: Hello Jason, I am a big fan of your advice and wanted to see if you could offer any advice for marketing my start-up XYZ. He told me in a later email that he knows it wasn’t the best way to go, but “I’m a product guy.” Any advice will help. Who are your persuading?

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Customer Software Review Technical Review SEM 279

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? Collis Taeed 16th March Business Models 9 Comments One of the best sources of information on startups is the obscenely talented Paul Graham who has written a wealth of essays on the subject.

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Web Technical Review Developer Cofounder 40

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. Want to learn more about me?

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Spencer Fry

MARCH 7, 2016

It was bootstrapped. The website template is customizable, so tutors can add their own information, domain name, logo and photo to make it their own. The Coach I was bootstrapping and working on in April was still much of an experiment. If you have any ideas, suggestions, comments or feedback, please email me.

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Bootstrapping Startup Community Social Media 28

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew. Her name is Kathleen Walsh, she's my mentor to date with the nonprofit. You name it like governors. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Massachusetts Distribution Networking 73

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Michael, politely, says in an email: "I have done web analytics for five years, I have mastered Omniture, WebTrends and Google Analytics, I provide analysis and not just reporting. Michael is not his real name. I get many emails in the spirit of this one and thought it was about time I wrote a proper post about it.

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Technical Review Analytics Salary Fractional CTO 115

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2017

I’m able to create shipping labels, answer customer emails, coordinate product development from any computer with an internet connection (I’ve actually had to do this many times from various internet cafes while on travel). We still rely heavily on email for interactions which can be cumbersome. It is a hard, hard road.

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Marketing Design Acquisition Bootstrapping 48

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

We’ll also be sending out a follow-up email after this webinar and we will be recording the broadcast and making it available as well. Forbes Magazine named her number one woman for entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter and she hosts hashtag small biz chat Wednesdays on Twitter from 8 to 9pm eastern time for emerging entrepreneurs.

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Social Media Small Business Software Review Technical Review 60