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. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Still led by its founder, Steve Kaufer. 61M in Q3 revenue, up 28% YoY. The company is expected to do around $500M in revenue in 2011 and has seen 50%+ growth YoY the past two years. The company also never raised any previous financing, and is one of the great bootstrapped success stories out there. IPO’s/Exits.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 22, 2014

AngelList makes it easier for founders to reach angels and there are hundreds of accelerators and incubators to choose from. If not, revenue from your customers will be your best source of financing. That’s okay: many great companies have been built by bootstrapping. Is your opportunity at least $100M?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Luckily, there are some new entrants and approaches to seed-stage funding -- if you know whom to ask -- that can supplement the friends, family and bootstrapping approaches traditionally recommended.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. His firm invests in four. CricketWeekly.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. Also, an Incubation Radar profile on CrowdEngineering explains more about this very, very cool company doing crowdsourced customer support. SOCO Games.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Sr amana Mitra, founder of One Million by One Million . A few months ago, I met Jana Francis, founder and CEO of online daily deals site Steals.com. The revenue in 2012 was $16.4 Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay. I had coffee with her the day before.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2015

However, now that we know that your visitors are looking for these experiences and transforming into brand advocates because of these experiences, we can expect to see results in the sales cycle and in revenue flow. Yana Nirshberg is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Creative Director at ParadigmNEXT, Inc.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Entrepreneurs, which by definition are stubborn entities are therefore finding creative and cheap ways to bootstrap their startups. Share 17 Responses to “How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip.

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Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

What can founders do in advance to make the trough as shallow as possible? . If you are in the pre-product launch stage and want to ask random people what they think of your idea or product, don’t say “hi, I”m the founder of XYC company, can you tell me what you think of this product?”. Rob Go] This is a great question!

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

We also had two other entrepreneurs who are working with the William Factory Incubator in Tacoma, Washington. Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. You can read more about athenahealth here. Wise Mind Studios LLC.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." System-Sea. What I liked about this company was its deep domain knowledge and niche nature.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Photo by LotusHead.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Meaning the founders have proven on some level that people will pay for what they’re selling and they’ve proven they can repeat said process. Revenue from 100 customers = Y. Weston Bergmann is the founder and lead investor in a business incubator in Kansas City called BetaBlox. There are even more ways to turn them off.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue. In 1M/1M, we have extensive expertise on bootstrapping e-commerce businesses, and will be happy to help her navigate the paths of customer acquisition, inventory, merchandising, and financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 5, 2015

It is not an accelerator, incubator or any other type of ator. . My partner Tim bootstrapped his business to 9 figures in revenue without taking any outside investment. Can we provide the resources and networks founders would traditionally get taking VC money, without all the expectations and baggage that come with it?

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

David Daneshgar, Gregg Weisstein, and Farbod Shoraka, the founders of BloomNation.com. But, of course, they need funding—and wouldn’t you know it, one of the founders is a world class poker player. So, from the consumer end, the founders believed they could do better. Creating a better experience for both florists and consumers.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. It details a landscape founders like me are excited to sink their teeth into? Of course not!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

We would rather chase revenue. It’s frustrating to be constantly confronted by this idea that we have to be chasing funding options instead of chasing revenue. The other is, ‘Don’t forget about bootstrapping.’ Of course you should chase revenue. What does it mean to have a co-founder or not?

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

The second and third rounds of funding take additional shares of equity and dilute existing investors and founders. Founders usually end up with 10% to 20%, all the other employees end up with about 15%, and the VCs end up with about 60% to 75%. Founders and VPs usually have about 10% and employees have about 15%.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

What CEOs, management teams and shareholders care about is growth —revenue growth, greater user adoption, increased market share, bigger margins, etc. Almost every large organization has some kind of incubator or accelerator program. Here’s how he’s shaping the future of corporate innovation. to find, attract and retain “starters.”.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. How much time do you budget for red ink financing?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we started off by discussing the pre-incubation procedure we are recommending with audience members from different parts of the world. This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. About Sramana Mitra.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The researchers found that in return, this ability caused entrepreneurs to disrupt common patterns in daily life, attracted more customers and created more revenue, causing a cycle of nuanced disruption and adaptation. Basically, they do what it takes until they make it- regardless of what their bank account says!

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

This will achieve both customer intimacy and bootstrap funding from customers. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. RS: What makes 1M/1M unique?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. But since I’m relatively fresh off of the experience I get asked by first-time founders how they should go about raising money for their startup. Usually those aren’t first-time founders though.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive it is.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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