A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MAY 8, 2012
We’ve been bootstrapping up to this point. While I was bootstrapping WP Engine I constantly heard that we’re hamstrung by not taking an investment; after raising a Series A a different set of people expressed their disappointment that I had “sold out.” Are you proud of bootstrapping? Fulfilling.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 31, 2012
” It’s the founder who says she doesn’t need to talk to customers before embarking on a $100,000 development project because “my customers are idiots.” If you’re bootstrapping, getting that $1000/mo right now in bottom-line money is in fact the better choice.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Burgeoning Startup Founder writes: After a year of work, my startup is now doing about $6,000/mo in revenue and $3,000/mo in profit. Since you’re bootstrapping, “cash now” is far more valuable than “cash later.” ” Rand over at SEOMoz just wrote up what he thought about how we did this at WP Engine.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 19, 2012
My company is profitable, and has been from day one. – every high-tech bootstrapped founder I know what you really mean. That’s exactly what my company WP Engine looked like for the first 9 months. Now we’re making millions of dollars, employ 20 people, growing at 15%/mo, etc.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question. Jason: Exactly. Jason: Yeah.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 31, 2011
Today it would be near-impossible to bootstrap Smart Bear on those keywords. If you listen to a sampling of the 600 Mixergy interviews, you’ll find a common thread to how all those illustrious founders got their first few customers: There is no pattern. But for every one of those, another founder has the opposite experience.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 8, 2012
This is a long episode (1:20), but it’s a conversation that will resonate with a lot of early-stage startup founders. You’re an engineer, is that true? It’s just a bootstrapping way to get moving and get some momentum. You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!)
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