Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

So while at first glance it would appear the social media sources brought in way more traffic than organic search due to the mountainous peaks of their curves, the compounding nature of the consistent organic traffic actually brought in around 70% of each of the other two peaks. These are the ones batted around in the media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

Even if you are funding the project yourself (bootstrapping), you should be asking yourself the same question before you have burned all your resources. Start selling it on social media before you build it. Word of mouth and viral marketing alone are not adequate, and a website is not all you need for credibility.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 7, 2010

Keep operating costs down Bootstrapping -- the collection of tools and tactics that entrepreneurs use when they have limited resources -- already has become a crucial business skill in today's tough economic climate. Help is available for those who want to use bootstrapping to recover from the flood.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 4, 2010

I feel myself transforming into the Dr. Laura of bootstrapped entrepreneurs.). Tags: Announcements Guest Posts blogging social media writing. Gee, is this therapy for me or for you ? Probably both. So over the next few months I'm going to run a few guest posts. Ground rules. I will still post every Monday, as usual.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Jon Favreau (who also wrote and directed the film) stars as Carl Casper, a head chef who is fired after a video of his spat with a food critic goes viral. It endearingly represents the ingenuity and collaboration required to bootstrap a project. Chef (May 2014); Open Road Films. Begin Again (July 2014); The Weinstein Company.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. – [link].

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

We are obviously hitting social media, PR, etc. I’ll admit up front: I’m not a fan of using freemium in a bootstrapped business. Typically, low LTV businesses only work when there’s some kind of viral loop in place that ensures every customer you sign up brings in X more customers. My Thoughts.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. Or any of the other approaches I would use to grow an app with a higher LTV ($150+).

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game. The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO).

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. The post The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping first appeared on Rob Walling - Serial Entrepreneur. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2017

The viral nature of it has been incredibly fruitful in building awareness and oftentimes conversion as well. Snapchat/Story-based social media has been an interesting challenge. HW: So far you’ve bootstrapped DSPTCH but we discussed how you periodically get approached by investors. It is a hard, hard road.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link]. Media Relations 101 for Your Startup – [link]. How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link].

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. Or any of the other approaches I would use to grow an app with a higher LTV ($150+).

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

You don’t have the traction, the big-dollar investments, or the marketing staff to attract media attention. Offer reporters an exclusive on the successful, viral campaign that got you there, or a behind-the-scenes look at what your product does and how you’ll deliver on this huge campaign’s promises. The irony hurts. As with No.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Should you bootstrap? Hasan (20:49): Yeah, we're all over social media. Viral videos on YouTube summarizing it. Should you raise funding? Who should you partner with? These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage. So we're just bringing it back to the individual. So I'm @startuphassan.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. On the one hand, bootstrapping your business gives you much more control over it. For example, Buffer, the successful social media company, just closed their only office. Domain Names and Trademark Law.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

August 20, 2011 by Lauren Drell 1 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

This choice is justified when you have a highly visited media website with consistent content updates. It could also work well with a viral app (e.g. photo editors for Instagram) although you may find that the hype tends to pass quickly even for the most popular apps that went super viral. Is it virality? Useful feedback?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Should you bootstrap? We're all, all, all over social media. It's really popular on Good Reads, it's on YouTube, it a lot viral videos on YouTube's took, summarizing it. And that's what made us think about like how we can help people to gain that kind of self-awareness. Should you raise funding? Who should you partner with?

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. Aaron Wall, SEO Book Add a free feature which is accessible, useful, and spreads virally.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. Well, our application is for social media so anyone in the world can use it. Or the market for Web photo sharing, where several bootstraps are doing well.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

It would be a hugely useful investment actually not just for vaccines but potentially creating bootstrapping an enormous amount of manufacturing capability for these new types of medicines that are currently very expensive to make because you don't have the scale to make them. Please share it on social media.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 2, 2011

And because he connected with his target audience (young girls), his videos started going viral. Bootstrap, do guerilla marketing and get PR. Bieber did this through social media (YouTube and Twitter), radio show appearances (PR), and doing small local events throughout the US and Canada. Then he did it and impressed Usher.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

And that’s when I created the Bootstrapping summit where I highlighted, where I documented the journey of 100 Bootstrap entrepreneurs, and that helped me get exposure to about 5,000 people, that is 5,000 subscribers, and was actually a lot more than 5,000. I had invested a lot in social media marketing. I like this idea.

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