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How I Knew That I Could Bootstrap My Company

YoungUpstarts

I was working as a software developer in New York City and came upon a recurring problem, having to spend tedious hours coding online forms. Determining if your product can be bootstrapped. Business decisions must be made carefully at a bootstrapped company. Facebook had just opened its doors to outside college campuses.

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The New Order of Silicon Valley: Forget the Silicon Part

Diego Basch

I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area over twenty years ago. Either you will bootstrap the business or you will partner with someone local to fund it, because VCs won’t give you the time of the day. if applicable, establish a Bay Area presence for market development or sales. marijuana delivery).

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

If you want to build a business that requires software, be prepared to invest a little money. I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. The business geek needed a working software prototype and the programmer needed experience.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). If you’re bootstrapping, you don’t need to worry about either of these options. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. Without funding most tech startups will die.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Was doing some side work for a car dealership and another gentleman came by that car dealership just asking, hey, do you know any software developers that can help me with this project, and that car dealership basically made the connection and I was the technical co-founder that somebody else was looking for. Does that make sense?