www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The subject of measuring market size comes up every few weeks in my interactions with startup founders, and one point I always raise is the difference between a top-down and bottom-up approach. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Like this post?

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. 10 Lessons I’ve Learned During My First Three Months As a Founder (by @lenkendall) | @Technori – [link]. 50 Stunning RSS Symbol Inspired Logo Designs – [link]. Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link].

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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? Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science.

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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

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The Startup Toolkit

MAY 18, 2012

I’ve begun the £10k bootstrap challenge , where I’m trying to bootstrap my way to profitability with a new set of products before running out of money. Get the updates on rss , email , or youtube as I [hopefully don't] fail. Think of it as joining me on the bootstrap challenge. Sign up here! Sign up here!

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

As CEO and co-founder Naval Ravikant tells me, when he and co-founder Babak Nivi started VentureHacks a few years ago, their goal was to educate companies on how to negotiate venture term sheets. For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Here’s the deal: I work in the bootstrapped startup world and in this arena you don’t need $500k to build a product. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Company founders don’t have the luxury of ‘diversifying their portfolio,’ so to speak. They work at their company until funding is pulled, it goes bust, it’s sold, etc… It’s hard to be the founder at multiple companies at the same time. Furl - del.icio.us - Technorati - reddit!

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Ive done a lot of placing people into positions, and I have never used a job board as a way to do that," says Rich Sloan , co-founder of StartupNation. Every type of business has their own meetings," says Martin Zwilling , founder and CEO of consulting group Startup Professionals. Create an Inc.com account: Home Magazine Blogs Ask Inc.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour. The other is, ‘Don’t forget about bootstrapping.’ Just take it out of the RSS reader. What does it mean to have a co-founder or not?

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 2, 2012

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Watch out for no-man’s land on the road to bootstrapping a startup – solid post (& pie charts) via @mhenders [link] “[T]he single greatest contributor to low morale is lack of communication.”

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Ultimately, the project can founder on the “core incompetencies&# you both bring to the partnership. It’s basic bootstrapping; you’ll want to leverage a little bit of high-level technical expertise to minimize risk. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Most Popular.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Early startup customers are visionaries just like the founders selling to them. Reply Does the Lean Startup revolutionize bootstrapped marketing? Ignoring the Red Flags While I had lots of people willing to talk to me, we never really pushed hard to see if any customers were willing to buy and pay for the product before it shipped.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 8, 2010

You just need to give up all your free time which, if you've caught the "founders" bug, is A-OK with you. We all have dreams of stratospheric growth, whether it's hoping the next blog post will get 267 votes on Hacker News and double your RSS subscribers , or hoping that the advent of release v1.1 will set the blogosphere ablaze.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

L et’s face it: with the amount of information we get on a daily basis through browsing and reading news, RSS, Twitter, Facebook and other sources, it’s becoming increasingly harder to cut the wheat from the chaff. How do bootstrapped companies hire talent? How do startup founders know when to quit, stick or pivot?

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. 2 comments Mint Life Know your money. Live your life.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. Too many smart people liked it.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. Too many smart people liked it.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â??

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. Yes, I am sure Davids venture is eminently fundable within a few months.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. Yes, I am sure Davids venture is eminently fundable within a few months.

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www.iubenda.com

OCTOBER 25, 2011

We release a freebie, wp-bootstrap , WordPress theme based on the Twitter Bootstrap toolkit, downloaded a few hundred times (powering this blog too). Founder and Chairman of iubenda. Follow this blog via RSS Feed. Here two major events happen. About Andrea Giannangelo. Web Designer by the age of 10. Eclectic by design.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. I think, if you can swing it, the first round of the core technology / IP should be developed by the founders. In this post, we show you how to go from idea to specified product.

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grasshopper.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Equity-based pay is often used by the founders of young start-ups who want to grow their businesses but cannot offer big salaries to qualified professionals. Funded companies are typically a safer bet than bootstrapped ventures for two important reasons. How it Works. Pricing & Signup. Categories/Archives. July 29, 2010.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

GenuineVC - David Beisel RSS. What's Your Founder Superpower? An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Information Asymmetry in Bootstrapping. Masthead portfolio company NewsGator has pursued the latter approach (with both their corporate and founder ’s blog, among others ), which I believe has significantly benefited the company.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.

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