ReadWriteStart
JUNE 29, 2020
There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic. Ways to bootstrap a startup. What is a startup?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 4, 2010
But as much as you're open to hearing new voices, you were also clear that you come here for quality content (not quantity), for entrepreneurial perspective (not product pitches), and for my taste in topics, especially "behind the scenes" admissions of agony, humiliation, and mortifying unease. Gee, is this therapy for me or for you ?
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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. Wild (December 2014); Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. He already had two exits before he created Justcall, selling his last business to The New York Times. They landed their first customer the following March.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers. O’Reilly cites a number of these successfully bootstrapped businesses in his piece, including Mailchimp, Atlassian, Shutterstock, Basecamp, and RXBAR.
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