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. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. We were expecting twins.
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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OnlyOnce
JULY 9, 2013
The book is part of the Startup Revolution series that Brad has been working on for a couple years now, including Do More (Even) Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life (with two more to come, Startup Boards and Startup Metrics). Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected!
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. Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow. Ok, nobody has asked this question yet.
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.
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible.
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