Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank [.]

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. With that in mind, how do you give yourself the best chance of avoiding failure?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “I million in revenue a year. . Qualified.io

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stair Step Approach. With that in mind, how do you give yourself the best chance of avoiding failure?

Bootstrapping 36

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. With that in mind, how do you give yourself the best chance of avoiding failure?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. And when you lost customers due to not having project management, your response was to make project management. Another idea would be to say matching up.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

At Smart Bear we were selling a code review tool, and if you paid $600 for Perforce, it was very hard for me to charge $600 hundred for an add-on to Perforce that did code review. We would rather chase revenue. The other is, ‘Don’t forget about bootstrapping.’ Of course you should chase revenue.

Widget 204

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 A fashion executive wife and technology entrepreneur husband we were moving house and faced a vexing problem: how to sell their fabulous, nearly new furnishings that couldn’t fit into their new digs? a dating app that matches people according to their lifestyle.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Both tests can be allowed to run purely methodologically and technically at 100% traffic; that is, one user can be in both tests. Shopping Cart Values / Revenue Per Visitor. Revenue per visitor is another common eCommere KPI, and it’s especially important with certain hypotheses. Why does this work?

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

You have options for just about every other technology you choose for a project, but you always need to use CSS. Even if it doesnt match your own style perfectly, consistency is the most important thing. Try to never make a decision based on technical difficulty. Im sure she is not wrong. You need a plan for your CSS.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Technology Poverty – Every revolution has its downsides – those who miss out. Technology is bringing about a new form of poverty to those who don’t have equal access to it. The technology minimums are changing quickly. The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? And really this was a focus on, what is the minimum viable thing we can do to serve these groups, connect the donors, restaurants, and hospitals, and be able to get them to efficiently match? I am Eric Ries. So Frontline Foods is a genuine win-win.

San Francisco 68

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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.&# Even narrowing the field as much as feasible, revenue multiples varied between 1.2x Profit multiples varied even more.

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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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