Hippoland

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Should you raise money or bootstrap? (By By bootstrap, I actually mean raise < $250k from individuals / angels). Having run a startup that raised money and now in running a VC, ironically, if I were starting a product company today, I would start out with the mentality of bootstrapping for as long as I could.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

Successful entrepreneurs are more likely to bootstrap their own business, and use the discipline of personally validating and approving every check. Manage the business with metrics and goals. Metrics drive a results-oriented culture that leads to continuous quality improvements, required pivots, and recognition of success.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

While you may be enamored with becoming an entrepreneur and bootstrapping your business, don’t quit your day job. There’s actually a lot of value in bootstrapping your business. You need to be consistent in the time you invest, establish milestones and metrics for success, and solidify a process for reviewing performance.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

More importantly, a subscription business model enables you to manage the cash flow, upgrade your business planning and optimize metrics such as churn rates, the lifetime value of a customer, expansion, and more. It is a bootstrappable model. In most cases, urgency and overwhelm can create a lot of stress.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. We were expecting twins.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

By bootstrapping, bartering, reducing overheads (rental and manpower), and leveraging technology (especially the web), one can start one’s own business almost on a dime without being beholden to creditors or venture capitalists. Positioned as a guide for bootstrapping solopreneurs, the book doesn’t dive deeply into any one specific domain.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Decide early where and when money will come from, set some milestones and metrics, and work to a plan, or be caught short. No matter how good your cause, it takes real money to sustain a business.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup. Year-on-year growth metrics in unique site traffic is 7.8

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. These show a focus on the business elements required for success, and metrics for ensuring accountability, management control, and feedback along the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

With bootstrapping, no business plan is expected by anyone. Yet I would suggest that creating one is still a valuable exercise, since you need the plan as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics, unless your management style makes this a waste of time.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Should you raise money or bootstrap? (By By bootstrap, I actually mean raise < $250k from individuals / angels). Having run a startup that raised money and now in running a VC, ironically, if I were starting a product company today, I would start out with the mentality of bootstrapping for as long as I could.

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Bootstrapping Cap Table Salary .Net 48

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. 3 Key PPC Metrics Are Lying To You. 15 Free Bootstrap Admin Themes – crowdspring.co/1jB1FYK. 15 Free Bootstrap Admin Themes – crowdspring.co/1jB1FYK. – crowdspring.co/1j2mWos.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Statdragon is a Saas platform that allows businesses to access and analyze metrics about their existing videos and optimize their video marketing strategy. What about bootstrapping? ” The post Dragons, Bootstrapping and Women in Tech appeared first on Bplans Blog. Their latest product, Statdragon, launched just last week.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. 15 Best Bootstrap Design Tools – crowdspring.co/1ncKgIa. Thinking about buying some online ads? 1ncL3IY.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

In the real world, evidence indicate the vast majority of new ventures are self-funded, or bootstrapped. This will incent earlier thinking outside the box, and help you get metrics in place to track progress, or lack of it, along the way. In all cases, people management and leadership are key.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Bootstrapping can be fun, you get to iterate quickly, turn on dimes, invent new features on the fly. This is the flip-side of the above advice, but when you start seeing your metrics turn positive, be prepared to invest and grow rapidly. Levi Cooperman , Co-founder and VP of Operations of Freshbooks. Be creative, and stay lean.

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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. Step 8: Track your metrics. For many people, tracking metrics can seem like something scary, boring, or time-consuming.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

Why Lead Velocity Rate (LVR) Is The Most Important Metric in SaaS | saastr – crowdspring.co/U3ZbaM. 50 Extensions and Plugins for Extending Bootstrap – crowdspring.co/1nj8dJm. Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand | Denise Lee Yohn, Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1qkFicI. After Failure, What’s Next? |

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

If you have a basic understanding of CSS, HTML, and JS and want to create a WordPress theme, you can do it with Bootstrap and then share it on GetBootstrap, even if you don't know much about WordPress. WordPress theme development and ThemeForest sales are possible ventures, depending on your skill level.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I’m a very risk adverse entrepreneur as a result of bootstrapping my first three businesses, almost failing on the fourth (Coremetrics) due to market timing (I was too early and didn’t predict the dot-com bust) and its overcapitalization, and being a mostly customer funded and very capital efficient on the fifth (Bazaarvoice).

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! At the same time, it became clear that bootstrapping further was not an option our team could pursue.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Read my Lucky7 Bootstrap or VC? Also, it is very important that you maintain a bootstrap mentality to the greatest extent possible after you take funding. I wish I had done the same at Coremetrics, and it was ironic that I didn’t because I bootstrapped my first three businesses and they all had great cashflow.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Benchmarking Hubspot’s S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up – crowdspring.co/1qlwWRG. 40 Extensions And Plugins For Extending Bootstrap – crowdspring.co/1w2XjfG. Rarely say yes to feature requests | Inside Intercom – crowdspring.co/1plBz95. You suck at technical interviews – crowdspring.co/1pEfybN.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics - SoCal CTO , March 11, 2010 Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. The study is featured in the March issue of the Harvard Business Review.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The company is currently bootstrapped and the app is launching next week. VC Cafe: What goals/metrics are you tracking and what would you consider ‘success’ at the end of year one? VC Cafe: Sounds like you did a great job bootstrapping. Ofir: We’re tracking downloads of course. Are you looking to raise funding?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business - [link]. “Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior&# – [link]. Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

The first stage is bootstrapping, where you raise between $50k and $100k and you try to make that money last as long as you can. key metrics or a dashboard showing how you've made progress in whatever the key metrics for your business are. Clavier recommends the book Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And standing out to a company that got $10 million dollars in funding even before they started Asana is going to be very hard if you bootstrap it with your savings. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question. Jason: That’s called bootstrapping, right.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

It’s critical to understand the metrics in terms of dollars per additional user, as you’ll have to spend this amount to serve thousands of your non-paying customers. If you are a bootstrapped DIY solopreneur, you should estimate your chances and think twice before choosing your VC-funded, 200-employees-strong competitor’s pricing strategy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

Benchmarking Box’s S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up | by Thomas Tunguz - crowdspring.co/1dysrz8. Showcase of Useful Bootstrap Tools For Web Developers - crowdspring.co/1kY1Qey. While struggling to build companies, some founders also quietly battle depression | BetaBoston – crowdspring.co/1mUNP1y. 1mZniAb.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Perhaps we can start with the phases of growth and compare with the Blitzscaling versions… OS1: The Family Stage As you might expect, this phase doesn’t subjectively feel that different between a bootstrapped tortoise and a blitzscale-intent startup. Neither is blitzscaling at this point.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book is part of the Startup Revolution series that Brad has been working on for a couple years now, including Do More (Even) Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life (with two more to come, Startup Boards and Startup Metrics). Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected!

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process.

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