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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

31 employees according to Linkedin, but seems to be bootstrapped. Capuccino – an audio social network launched in July 2020 by French founders. Bootstrapped. If you’re a seed and pre-seed founder working on innovative products in this space, you don’t need to wait for a warm intro to contact Remagine Ventures.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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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. 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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Cheap Ways Validate Your App Idea And Get Early Users

YoungUpstarts

by Mark McDonald, co-founder and co-CEO of Appster. Bootstrap + Mailchimp, both free). Mark McDonald is the co-founder and co-CEO of Australia’s Leading App Development Company , Appster. Understanding your users and the problems they face, is an essential element of building a successful product.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. What is bootstrapping? Why bootstrap?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Statisco Economic Analytics.