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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

This book is steeped in the knowledge of how to scale your sales team, written by people that constantly consult in this area (and thank you to Bijoy Goswami, founder of Bootstrap Austin, for the recommendation to read this book eight years ago?—?make For us, this was the color green and our SellStrong bands.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

ReadWriteStart

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Jimmy has already managed the most complex part of the bootstrapping phase with very little outside investment.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Citefull

Austin Startup

We bootstrapped this venture, so while there aren’t many perks, being able to go from a white board to a green golf course in 10 minutes is a bonus. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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The Startup Factories, How Incubators Are Shaping Entrepreneurs [Report]

VC Cafe

Following the success of Ycombinator and TechStars, in recent years we have seen literally hundreds of regional incubators set up in the rest of the US and Europe , across campuses and within vertical industries, such as mobile or finance. Each incubator promises to provide startups with mentorship, support and a smoother ride to funding.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

However, enough on digital, so Sarah, please stop with the positive news- where will VC go to invest outside of net negative or zero ROI on green? The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. next to nothing, charge? hmmm- Amazon S3=?