Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I started embracing it as a framework on my podcast around 2010, and in 2013 I gave it a name. I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. I call it The Stairstep Approach.

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Bootstrapping Technical Review SEO Revenue 27

Transformify

OCTOBER 14, 2015

An excellent understanding of front and back-end web development skills including, HTML/5, CSS, JavaScript, Responsive Web Design, PHP, MySQL, HTML email, Bootstrap, Flat UI, Symfony. Understanding of SEO Experience of mobile application development frameworks and technology. Experience of API Integration. Requirements.

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Web Development Web Developer HTML 66

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. where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. One is a framework which is a play on Daniel Pink's Amp, which you may have heard of.

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Community Cofounder Bootstrapping Kuwait 53

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. What is bootstrapping? So, what does it mean to bootstrap a company? Bootstrapping involves launching a business on a low budget. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Pretend your family doesn’t matter. Use personal credit cards for business.

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Early Stage Bootstrapping Revenue Framework 307

The Next Web

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, the creators of the Bootstrap toolkit, announced they were leaving Twitter last month, they promised to continue working on the project, even though it was launched in August 2011 while they were employed at the social networking giant. Today, they have delivered on that promise with Bootstrap 2.2.0.

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Bootstrapping Open Source Framework Social Network 115

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. We see Bizosys as a promising niche vendor with demonstrated capabilities in creative bootstrapping. RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.

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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Should you bootstrap? But if I'm out there listening, you know, what are some of the, what are just some of the places that you go looking, I know you have a framework you call the Miles framework. So the Miles framework is, uh, it stands for money, intelligence, location, and luck education and expertise and status.

Audio 86

Audio Cofounder Framework Early Stage 86

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Always Wrong, Never In Doubt: A 7 Step Framework For Starting a Company | by @DanMartell - crowdspring.co/1sTawss. The ultimate guide to Bootstrap | Webdesigner Depot – crowdspring.co/YTL8qt. The Four Key Trends of the Startup Acquisition Market | by @ttunguz – crowdspring.co/1w8sgz2. 1Ce86Fp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Pretend your family doesn’t matter. Use personal credit cards for business.

Early Stage 317

Early Stage Bootstrapping Framework Revenue 317

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I asked her to work with the Clarify Your Story framework, something we ask people to use in preparing for the roundtable, but clearly, Jeanne did not do her homework. As a result, her pitch sounded like spray and pray to me. Vimagino.com.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Incubator 114

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

—– Earnest Capital invests in bootstrapped companies to help them unlock more growth. All Earnest investments are made using the Shared Earnings Agreement (SEAL) – a custom salary/profit share structure, aligned with how most bootstrapped founders are compensated.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2010

He cofounded the popular web application framework company Ext JS (now Sencha) and now spends his days building products for iPhone and iPad. I bootstrapped my first “real&# company 3 years ago. I’ve bootstrapped every project I’ve ever founded, and have never felt the need to pursue external funding.

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Flash Elevator Pitch Bootstrapping Cofounder 77

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Increasingly, seed rounds occur after some sort of pre-seed or at least some period of bootstrapping. I have a related framework that company milestones fall into two buckets. One of the biggest rookie mistakes I see among founders pursuing seed rounds is that they’ve spent too much time building something vs. proving something.

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Seed Stage Bootstrapping Demand Early Stage 180

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Both of these bodies of work and frameworks for thinking about startups fit really well for funded startups who plan to shoot the moon (launch the rocket to escape velocity and go as far and fast as possible). I expect that teaching that class and observing the principles applied will lead to a lot of new material over the next few years.

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Warrant Bootstrapping Framework Hiring 48

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs mistakenly often engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. Coming from the financial world to the software world taught us a lot about bootstrapping and finding valuable outsourcing tools. What made you use crowdSPRING?

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Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2018

Material Design for Bootstrap – World’s most popular framework for building responsive, mobile-first websites and apps. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting.

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Bootstrapping Framework Mobile Design 64

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Pretend your family doesn’t matter. Use personal credit cards for business.

Early Stage 158

Early Stage Bootstrapping Framework Revenue 158

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. So if you’ve got advice to share on implementing a continuous deployment framework, for example, we’re all eyes. So, no, you absolutely do not have to be a developer to give a talk.

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Lean Technical Review Startup Software Review 165

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So I mentioned in the intro that you have customers in over 170 countries today, but you essentially were bootstrapped in the very beginning. I mean, is there any kind of one people management philosophy that you swear by Jason (07:52): Not a singular philosophy or framework that's out there? John (02:33): Yeah.

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Chicago Campaign Software Review Software Engineering 50

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Pretend your family doesn’t matter. Use personal credit cards for business.

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Entrepreneur Early Stage Bootstrapping Framework 265

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. 30 Useful Frameworks for Designers – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link]. But I Just Wanted To Be Fair… – [link]. Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Frequency of buzzwords (programming languages, frameworks, OSes, software packages, etc.). Or I can create a new, actually useful JavaScript framework. Or I can spend a year bootstrapping a startup in my off hours and get it up to tens of thousands of users. Powered by Reverie Framework. News and World Report).

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. 30 Useful Frameworks for Designers – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link]. But I Just Wanted To Be Fair… – [link]. Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI is really designed to replace equity with a patient, flexible, long-term growth funding framework while factoring, MCAs and receivables financing are more of a short-term, working capital oriented set of solutions.” . The RBI investment model better aligns incentives between VCs and a founder who chooses to bootstrap.

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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding. Here’s a framework you can use to craft your email messaging: Forget contrived personalization; get right to the point: Use the first line of your email to present what your content is about. Let’s say you provide creative services to paid media specialists.

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Audience Non-Compete Distribution Channel 127

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I know firsthand what it takes to bootstrap a business from the ground up. Given enough determination, it’s never too late to acquire the skills and the mindset you need to bootstrap a start-up. Rather, to bootstrap a business, you have to share the wealth in terms of money, perks, and credit for a job well done.

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Bootstrapping Framework Naming Partner 173

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 20: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Financing…Equity Investors, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Strategic Investors, Debt, Convertible Debt, Venture Debt, Bank Loans, Personal Debt, Bootstrapping, Customer Financing, Your Own Cash Flow. Chapter 27: Have You Learned Your Lesson?

Startup 95

Startup Advisory Board Elevator Pitch Forecast 95

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs often mistakenly engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Pretend your family doesn’t matter. Use personal credit cards for business.

Early Stage 120

Early Stage Startup Bootstrapping Revenue 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Hard to know, but an important question for a bootstrap startup to answer! Here’s a simple framework for how to come up with those numbers. With WPEngine recently I had yet another question to answer: “What if I took $X/mo salary, then how much equity would you part with? What about $Y/mo?&#

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Equity Salary Hiring Institutional Investors 276

Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Use a Responsive Framework. A responsive framework will make your life – and your site visitors’ life – so much easier. A responsive framework, such as Bootstrap , automatically adjusts everything on your website – from your images to the text – according to the device that’s being used.

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Mobile Framework Bootstrapping eCommerce 40

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

Steve Blank promotes this framework and it has been used by a lot of startups in the Silicon Valley. Therefore the better idea might be to take a look at a bootstrapped startup who is in a market for several years. It means you start charging for the product right away without giving anything away for free.

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Viral Startup Silicon Valley B2C 122

startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Know who you are looking for : Sometimes people start off by saying “I need to find a Rails person&# – they’ve heard Ruby on Rails is a great framework for building web products, so they’ve pre-decided to use it. As Dave Troy put it, it all boils down to this: “In Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Cofounders Find You!&#

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Baltimore Maryland 40

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible. Eric, I have Steves book and wish I had it for 1 couple of my earlier startups where the framework would have helped our team get on the same page.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167