Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. That's what you sound like when you claim that getting a software patent will protect you from competition. Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. Except in certain industries (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

4- Due to lack representation in the skincare industry. My purpose was primarily learning about the internet and how to build a business. 17- To introduce custom software products. Now, we have a well-calculated formula for launching businesses that are 100% bootstrapped with a very small amount of initial capital.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. I figured the real problem now was scaling my web application with the influx of new users and handling the overwhelming number of requests to pay me. I’m Robert Graham and I’m an internet entrepreneur working on software for deer management. He is a Ph.D.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 13, 2010

Our goal is to help non-venture-backed, bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs. That’s why we’ve made it out mission to provide practical information based on our real-life experience as software/web entrepreneurs (20+ years between the two of us), as well as the entrepreneurs we work with in the Micropreneur Academy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2015

“They didn’t want them to just design web pages and page layouts they wanted administrative and secretarial skills as well, which I felt would demean the profession.”. Natasha has been amazed by the amount of education and skills she has gained via the internet. With the internet you could find out anything you want.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com , an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web. a “magazine rack&# of web articles.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

In fact, any bootstrapped company should be aiming for slow, consistent growth rather than explosive growth. Don’t use company property or Internet, ever - Another clause in most employment agreements is that anything you do physically at work, or on software and equipment owned by the company (e.g.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. Jason: So what’s the question?

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Ben Gremillion ● CSS3 , Learn to Code , Make a Website. Not long ago designers who laid out web pages also had to plunge into myriad layers of nested tables, ferreting out that one misplaced or making the same tedious width change across many pages. Get 1 Month of Gold for Free! ($49

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. Sure, there are many other events, including eTail and Internet Retailer. But Shop.org is where you go to learn and network.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

of businesses are actively seeking & collecting customer reviews on an ongoing basis. According to an article in Econsultancy , when a site has customer reviews, 63% of visitors are more likely to make a purchase & reviews produce an average of 18% uplift in sales. million customer reviews. image source.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Computer Software. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. Food & Tobacco. Hospitality. Industrial Goods & Services. Marketing & Strategy. Media Agencies. Metals & Mining. NAME Comcast.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The approach involves going to a source of (often public) data and finding out how many X’s there are in the world, where X is your target consumer…be it a barber shop, web design firm or male under the age of 34. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

It doesn't take much effort to send the copy to a few friends to review it before going live. Set monetary/sales goals: After you've modeled out your potential revenue growth, setting sales goals will give you a better understanding of when you can raise money on good terms or quit your day job and bootstrap. Miscellaneous. Launch Day.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! “With luck the latest web bubble will do less damage than its predecessor&# – [link]. Turning an Addiction into a Bootstrapped Startup – [link].

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 essential tools to get your new web-app off the ground – [link]. Why software startups decide to patent … or not – [link].

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Invoice Place – Online billing software that lets you track invoices, quotes, receipts and more. Gliffy gliffy – Online diagramming and charting software.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

It’s an India-based web design company. How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that? Bootstrapping comes a little bit later, where this idea of throwing your own money into the mix, making it happen yourself is important. How long has the internet been around? Should we use them?…

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

You get really distracted by some wonderful things you’re researching on the internet. We are bootstrapping. Your software may change. I’ve got to get this … It’s due on Friday. Social media notifications popping up on your phone every five seconds. Your smartwatch is always buzzing and flashing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Principle of Contrast in Web Design – [link]. 20 Examples of using the Color Orange in Web Design – [link]. Showcase Of Web Design In Germany - [link]. Writing for the Web: The Right Strategy - [link]. Writing for the Web: The Right Strategy - [link]. Fresh Examples of Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. They’ve heard rules of thumb like “A growing software company is worth 5 times their trailing 12-months revenue.&# In fact, it’s rare that just putting your software into channel alone will be enough! Control equals money.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due. Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies. Jason Tugman • Dec 14, 2010 Why make web design and UX separate? he also helps out with cranking out the code). Someone who can actually CSS/HTML/*script the design they just made.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Amazon Web Services. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Web Tools: Hereâ??s Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups.

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