A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. In all the interviews you've read about founders' success, how many credit their MBA program? Except in certain industries (e.g. food, drug, medical), I'm unaware of companies who stave off quality competitors through patent holdings. We work hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Obviously, commercial e-commerce sites handling thousands of products and back-office functions are more expensive, and usually require professional help to do the custom programming and special site navigation features. All this may cost a few thousand dollars, but don’t get talked into an Amazon.com replacement just yet.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

17- Saturated with bootstrapped businesses. More entrepreneurs will therefore have to bootstrap their business. 18- Towards specific entrepreneurial coaching and programs. I believe that the future of entrepreneurship is heading towards specific entrepreneurial coaching and programs like EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System).

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Obviously, commercial e-commerce sites handling thousands of products and back-office functions are more expensive, and usually require professional help to do the custom programming and special site navigation features. All this may cost a few thousand dollars, but don’t get talked into an Amazon.com replacement just yet.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21] He's the CEO of founders space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Obviously, commercial e-commerce sites handling thousands of products and back-office functions are more expensive, and usually require professional help to do the custom programming and special site navigation features. All this may cost a few thousand dollars, but don’t get talked into an Amazon.com replacement just yet.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. The founders, Sunil Guttula and Abinasha Karana, are experienced IT professional with 15 years of experience between them solving various enterprise IT problems.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Bootstrapping 101. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. One of my colleagues, Joel West, beat me to the punch with a summary of the program. Bootstrapping 101. Steve Bennet.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

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 Startup Toolkit

MAY 8, 2012

If you want to get into startups and you don’t already know programmers who enjoy working with you, then I seriously suggest you start learning to program immediately. 90% of programming is figuring out that you can google the answer to just about every problem (and having a broad idea of what you might be looking for).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. Connect with the FB group Boss Babes ATX | #bossbabesATX If the name doesn’t get you, the programming will.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2016

by Keith Smith, co-founder and CEO of Payability. One company we work with creates custom rewards programs for sports fans. Let’s not forget the bootstrapping option. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be a millionaire to bootstrap. Assuming you’re one of the 99.95 Go it alone.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Our mission at TTS is to develop more tech talent in the South through beginner-focused programs teaching web development and computer programming. Right now, we run programs here in Atlanta (where we started the company) as well as in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, NC.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

An entrepreneur who brings out innovation and disruption at the same time is highly successful Muhammad Yunus, the founder of microcredit and micro-finance, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize is an excellent example of a successful entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of the famous Huffington Post and the founder of Thrive Global.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Obviously, commercial e-commerce sites handling thousands of products and back-office functions are more expensive, and usually require professional help to do the custom programming and special site navigation features. All this may cost a few thousand dollars, but don’t get talked into an Amazon.com replacement just yet.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I raised money and traded equity, but with my venture, I had to make one of the toughest decisions, to build it with some assistance of co-founders. Find the right co-founders. Having co-founders provides a strategy to avoid funding your start-up, with the help of investor’s money.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. He wrote: When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Four uncomfortable seconds later, a smile breaks across the founder's face. We're going to use an affiliate program so our customers sell it for us.". We're going to get reviews on blogs.".

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

If you and your co-founder(s) are friends, why not work on your home instead? Collaboration programs make it easy to communicate with your employees and client online. If you haven’t been able to save up for your capital, consider bootstrapping your business. Don’t have the money to rent a good office space yet? Stay online.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. If you want a deeper relationship with me, you are very welcome to join the 1M/1M premium program. This way we can stay in touch and it will help you to decide if 1M/1M is a program for you. Thursday, November 17, Register Here.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series returns this week with the Founder and CEO of ROBOAMP : Roberto Inetti. As a startup founder, what challenges are you facing as you navigate the entrepreneurial world? Learn more about our VIP Accelerator program and how to apply. Closing our pre-seed round is very important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. And I found a like-minded co-founder in Nikolai, Nikolai Eroshenko, whom I mentioned before. The same for every other aspect of the program.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. And that was $100,000 that came in to bootstrap Chicago and Detroit and Atlanta. Eric Ries : I want to talk a little bit about the long term here, because you said that this is not designed to be a long term program. This is an immediate acute problem.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2018

It includes panels, presentations, films, and speakers addressing various program tracks. It brings to the forefront unique angles of discussion and gives access to knowledge and lessons from founders and innovators. We need more representation from Female Founders. I’ve included a list below. So, we need your vote. What’s Next?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Room 213 Bootstrap Meetup with Austin Startup Scene Godfather Bijoy Goswami This Meetup is for entrepreneurs in all fields?—?tech,

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The company is currently bootstrapped and the app is launching next week. Ofir Beigel and Karin Levi, the co-founders of Capple Factory are both graduates of Israel’s Zell Entrepreneurship program , which is quickly gaining the reputation of Israel’s Y Combinator. disclosure: I’m an alumnus of the program).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2014

by Catherine Hoke, founder and CEO of Defy Ventures. The now successful CEO and founder of Brown Butter New York, a company that produces high-end cooking butter, was once a court-described “menace to society” whose life was overrun by drugs, gang-related assault, and armed robbery. Bootstrap your business.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. So we decided to study one program in particular: Harvard Business School. Harvard MBA Startup Founders: 2008-2014.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The reinforcement of his example, in hours of darkness, has offered me light and direction to take on a big, bold idea: restructuring capitalism through the 1M/1M program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. While foreign entrepreneurs wait for the Startup Visa to become a reality so they can go launch their startups in the US, France has quietly had a similar program in place for some time. We have those too.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

And over time, I envision that eco-system after eco-system around the world would learn how to use this program to do effective and precise entrepreneurship development, not spray and pray, which is largely what goes on today, with huge amount of resources being wasted. We have done that in 1M/1M.

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