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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

V5: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists and are doing lead generation for free trials / webinars / and content get customers profitably. So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

V5: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists and are doing lead generation for free trials / webinars / and content get customers profitably. So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years.

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How We Took on Slack (and Lived to Tell About It)

ConversionXL

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Creating and scaling a marketing plan.

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How We Took on Slack (and Lived to Tell About It)

ConversionXL

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Creating and scaling a marketing plan.