Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We went on to do some market research and survey our peers to gain feedback on our ideas. What expanded our clientele was our dedication to our brand and creative marketing. One of our marketing strategies was to partner with an underwear company, and have models do deliveries in the underwear. Why don’t they have any security?

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Acquisition Software Review 143

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

If you target general consumer markets, you want to do your market research with random people to get some objective feedback. Bootstrap + Mailchimp, both free). These tools are great to perform general market research and get better insights into questions you’re not sure about. Starbucks Test. Survey Tools.

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San Francisco Cofounder Application Development India 100

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Now, on to today's roundtable: Parallel6.

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North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Her market penetration plan is to start with India, and she wanted to know what kinds of options/connections we could provide. Marketing Green Products and Services to Indian Consumers. million financing round for. Photo by kipcurry.

India 116

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I pointed Zubair to a couple of case studies of bootstrapping using services to get more of his core product built; in parallel, I will help him pursue institutional funding. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea. Photo by thesaint.

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Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2013

When we launched two years ago, for example, the whole development team was based in India. As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money. Plus, with India being 2.5 Learning The Hard Way: My Outsourcing Experiences. In the morning, I conducted business deals and meetings.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO Singapore India 60

Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

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. build an execution team wherever convenient (could be Asia, Europe, India, anywhere in the US, who knows). if applicable, establish a Bay Area presence for market development or sales.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. First up was Siobhan O'Brien with OnTrack Imaging , a medical diagnostic imaging venture catering to the horse owners and trainers market. The equine diagnostic equipment market adds up to over a billion dollars, and Siobhan wants a piece of it. Photo by lco.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But when it comes to marketing your business, there might be a few (or more than a few) gaps in your formal education or training. Currently, the online world is full of information, almost any topic you wish to learn about you can find the tools instantly- marketing is no exception. Internet Marketing. The Basics.

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Small Business Marketing India Massachusetts 147

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start.

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Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. First up today was Justin Beck with PerBlue , a mobile and social gaming company that makes the iPhone and Android game Parallel Kingdom that has been in the market for a couple of years. Read Creative Bootstrapping to a $350 Million Exit.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Whether it is in the emerging markets or in the U.S., Shirish had a pricing model question, as well as a set of go-to-market and sales strategy questions. I advised him to avoid spending money to sell to the US and UK markets for the next year. Very encouraging! Photo by takatuka.

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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak.

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Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 115

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. I asked him several times what exactly is his TAM (Total Available Market). 30 million market?

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Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

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. GotProduce.com.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

My first question was what categories is he focusing on as his market entry points. The problem with this segmentation as a market entry strategy is that these categories are not synergistic. I recommend he pick one to three service areas that are synergistic to focus on as he goes to market. Don't spray and pray! Bongo Live!

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Tanzania Africa Entrepreneur Startup 128

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." Food ka Mood. Then Sameer Patil discussed TravDe.com , which offers steep discounts on hotels.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

We had an extensive discussion on segmentation, TAM, competitive analysis, and go-to-market strategy, and I advised Ajay to do further analysis on specific topics. Raghava Kashyapa then discussed Qualitas Technologies , a system integration company in India focused on the industrial automation market. Qualitas Technologies.

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Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator 113

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

IDES is an analytics enhancement for fraud prevention systems addressing the credit card fraud market. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. I advised them to do a thorough segmentation and competitive positioning for the healthcare practice management system market. IDES Technologies. Photo by mjamesno.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Well, you can't really go "global" without a go-to-market strategy that evaluates different markets, and assesses the competitive positioning in each of them. This strategy needs to be developed for ISA, and they have to pick a specific market to go after, rather than going global. Math-Quest.

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Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. 15 Free Bootstrap Admin Themes – crowdspring.co/1jB1FYK.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

But travel, particularly for early-stage and bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are physically far away, can be hard to swing. This is especially impressive since it’s so hard to understand the context of the customer in India, because of the differences in social structure, class and culture between the problem-solvers and the customers.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Whatever background they have is more suited to IT consulting, and I suggested that they become a value-added-reseller of a major card technology vendor and represent them in the South Asian market. Gemalto, the smart card world leader comes to mind as a possible vendor. It might be a much better alignment of skills. Photo by designkryt.

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India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

They should be built organically, bootstrapped, and get to sustainability. Very few businesses address large enough market opportunities to warrant professional investor involvement, especially VCs. Business analytics has, of course, been around for a couple of decades, and there are numerous vendors in the market. Discuss.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Recognizing the need for creative investment structures in their Colorado market, they cofounded the Alternative Capital Summit , creating the first community of Flexible VCs and alternative startup investors. . —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Up and Running

JULY 23, 2018

A few years back, I was working as a business consultant for a venture located in a small city in India. Since the company was bootstrapped, they spent frugally, lived without any salary for months, and worked hard to make it a success. The market has moved beyond the product/service: “If you do not change, you can become extinct!”. ?

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Salary San Francisco India Bootstrapping 72

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

It is that kind of precision that will drive a focused go-to-market strategy. The company has bootstrapped using services, a philosophy we espouse heavily in 1M/1M, and has simultaneously gathered a group of angel investors who are supporting it through the next phase. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2012

Vikrant is running a bootstrapped publishing company, and is a 1M/1M premium member. Also, Titash Neogi from Pune, India, pitched Themeefy , a publishing platform for self-publishers that helps users create, curate and publish books, magazines, etc. Vikrant Mathur, CEO of iFood.tv discusses that at length in the blog post here.

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Media Jacksonville Entrepreneur Vertical 114

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

My read on the business is that it needs to go to market in a B-to-B mode, expanding the scope of gift registries on major sites like Macy's and Crate & Barrel. It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company. I also advised Andrew to greatly tighten his product and go-to-market strategy. Note, I said, validated.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. Mava Consulting.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

On top of that, we built solutions, training, programs, and routes to market by solving each problem we faced and our fellow food entrepreneurs faced. My second reason is that I was working a day job in event marketing while pursuing a career in entertainment, so when covid lockdown hit, all my income streams disappeared in the same week.

Entrepreneur 147

Entrepreneur Technical Review South Korea United States 147

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

The capital earned in the agency was used to bootstrap the progression of the key business we wanted to launch. When you are bootstrapping cash flow is king. I applied this method to every single one of our hires and today our team consists of 22 people from United States, India, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Greece and the Philippines.

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Greece United Kingdom Ukraine Philippines 100

Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 7, 2010

His $2,200 cash investment went mainly to hire a programmer from India to help create the Web-based tools that visitors use to design and order their shirts. The WSJ has a recent article highlighting some firms that have been bootstrapped for under $150. “It’s gotten so much easier to reach mass markets and test out ideas.

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Kansas City Startup Bootstrapping Kansas 40

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. Usually, scalable business models have higher profit margin and lower infrastructure and marketing investment. Bootstrapping or self-funding. Sure, it should be unique.

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SBA Angel Investor Technical Review Startup 84