Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers, or a mobile smartphone app. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. Startups provide introductions and Tony and fellow panelists provide feedback in real-time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. It is just really hard to found a technology company successfully with only one founder, technical or non-technical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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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

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. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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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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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin. Filled with transparent discussions about bootstrapping, VC funding, acquisition offers, and what it takes to grow a fledgling company, this book is a self-described list of ‘cheat codes,’ presented thoughtfully, to help startups navigate the murky waters of starting and running a successful business.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

30 Founders Share Why Their Startups Failed | Tech Cocktail – crowdspring.co/1ssh53n. Why Startups Fail, According to Their Founders – crowdspring.co/1CdmkGz. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 1Ce86Fp.

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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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

Three important factors that founders have to consider (no matter their location) are networks, funding, and talent. Our hurdle was to develop our own network of investors and we did this the old-fashioned way: one degree of separation at a time. Here’s how we viewed each of these: Networking was critical to us.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. Salaries Startup Founders Pay Themselves | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1nHU2OK. The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. Avoiding common data-interpretation errors – crowdspring.co/RNprpc.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company - [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. What Makes People Happy? Have we even noticed?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

A founder-friendly term sheet – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 40 Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers – [link]. But sadly, just many puppies – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Andrew Ellis, one of the co-founders of SignNow.com, was so enthusiastic about his company, I’m going to let him do most the talking on this one: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? One example is outsourcing our original software development and it eventually had to be redone.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 13, 2010

Our goal is to help non-venture-backed, bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.

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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. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. But what about the little guys?

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. As an entrepreneur it means bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap. Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. If you’re bootstrapping, you don’t need to worry about either of these options. One of the easiest mistake to fix is timing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

by Stefan Pretty, founder of Subbly. Plus, starting an online business of course has it’s costs, but with a multitude of solutions out there (with Subbly being one of them) you don’t need to spend thousands on software development or marketing to validate your business idea. And a cocktail, of course.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes. This is better than hiring for a number of reasons: Hiring a good developer is not cheap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Well, that’s fine as far as it goes but when you’re a startup and you don’t have customers yet you need a way to bootstrap and that can feel awfully chaotic and wasteful. What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. A Big Idea: Y Combinator Now Lets Founders Apply Without… An Idea – [link]. Why Do Some People Learn Faster? – [link]. Why Do Some People Learn Faster?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the founder and CEO of Stackify. He’s been a developer/hacker for over 15 years, and he sold his first startup, VinSolutions for $150 million. In the past, as a developer, I’d rather just hide in the closet somewhere and write code. As a founder of a company, a CEO of a company. Go check it out.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Not only was I not an expert on code review prior to building a code review tool, I wasn't even an expert on software development processes generally! Take the success of ITWatchDogs , the company I helped bootstrap and eventually sell (before Smart Bear). After the talk typically 5-20 people want to chat one-on-one.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

In this installment we hear from startup expert Bob Walsh , whose many works for startup founders include: Blog: 47 Hats. Online guides and support network for founders: StartupToDo.com. What are the big killers lurking for the new startup founder? Podcast: Startup Success. New book: Web Startup Success Guide.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

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. Bottom-Up There are many bottom-up approaches to sizing a market; I discuss the approach I use in my developer’s guide to launching a startup.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. The Founders Guide to Surviving Startup Life – crowdspring.co/1eYfYis. Startup founder salaries: Younger, more inexperienced entrepreneurs pay themselves less | The Next Web – crowdspring.co/1f87xE1. 1gBDzfA. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

While struggling to build companies, some founders also quietly battle depression | BetaBoston – crowdspring.co/1mUNP1y. “38% of venture-backed founders are over 40 years old” - crowdspring.co/1hywYgv. How Old Are Silicon Valley’s Top Founders? How to Make Better Reference Calls - crowdspring.co/1e9bls4.

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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]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Quora – [link].

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

The Details It seems like it would be impossible to find someone to even partially fund development of an application. Here’s the deal: I work in the bootstrapped startup world and in this arena you don’t need $500k to build a product. Think 1-3 person teams who release v1.0 Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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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. Myth #3: I need a partner. 1 day ago Well, not most.

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