Software By Rob

APRIL 13, 2010

Our goal is to help non-venture-backed, bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. My new podcast launches today. It’s called Startups for the Rest of Us. My co-host is Mike Taber, the guy behind SingleFounder.com.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It endearingly represents the ingenuity and collaboration required to bootstrap a project. Like Chef , it also offers an interesting look at how social and new media have helped independent artists/entrepreneurs compete with entrenched businesses that have deeper pockets. The Great Invisible (March 2014); Limited release.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Of course, you will need a killer product—but, you will also need a competent growth strategy that will encompass comprehensive marketing, sales, research and development, technology, and beyond. Bootstrapping or self-funding a healthcare startup is very difficult, as most healthcare starts require considerable investment.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Several years ago, while I was creating videos for non-fictional books and uploading them on YouTube, I realized the potential of videos in the modern world and the hassle creators have to go through to perfect their videos. 28- The desire to compete. The prospect of competing with the best in the world excites and drives me!

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  If the entrepreneur has two competing offers, that’s an excellent way to understand what the market will pay. Dividends come in two basic flavors – cumulative and non-cumulative.   So, let’s assume here we have an 8% non-cumulative dividend. Non-financial terms affecting Risk.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

This can happen either because the founder can bootstrap the company with her own resources to get further, or because the company and team is so compelling that a large fund can lead a series A out of the gates. Non-institutional Leads. Non-institutional Leads. The institutions walked, but the round got done.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc.,

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I just have a hard time evaluating competence of business co-founders. I'll need damn good evidence of your competence (e.g. If your idea is bad you have nothing to bring to the table because you have no other skills to offer as a non technical co-founder. Raising cash is an easy test. former successful start-up).

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I currently just started a tech blog to cover under the radar, bootstrapped startups and this is great advice for the startups I cover and my readers. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup. that are a good place for non-tech people to start off with ? Thanks a lot for writing. Thanks again. link] Mark V.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. For most companies, it is simply a non-starter. The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Furthermore, O’Reilly’s own examples demonstrate the difference between a blitzscalable and non-blitzscalable market. But it also means that people have to compete, which may feel stressful and force you out of your comfort zone. One, it could rise to the challenge and compete by launching its own blitzscaling effort.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MAY 19, 2010

In a robust economy, entrepreneurs have a difficult time competing with larger firms when recruiting. Small businesses have always had other means of non-salary rewards and compensation that are not always used in larger businesses. But bootstrapping has found its way to the recruiting process.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). In some sense, their moat is capital, because most people will not be able to access enough capital (either by raising or by bootstrapping) to go after a similar opportunity.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). In some sense, their moat is capital, because most people will not be able to access enough capital (either by raising or by bootstrapping) to go after a similar opportunity.

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Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 5, 2015

It is not a non-profit or “impact” investment vehicle. . My partner Tim bootstrapped his business to 9 figures in revenue without taking any outside investment. And could these types of companies compete, and win, against their traditionally VC funded peers? . Let’s start with what it isn’t. It is not a new VC fund. .

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

Investment Capital When setting out to launch my online business, I had to bootstrap my way and set a limit on expenses. Without a budget to spend on outsourcing content creation, buying domains and web hosting, and marketing the sites to rank well on search engines, this project would have been a non-starter.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He wasn’t consciously giving a glib non-answer; he was understandably, desperately avoiding it. click and competed with no other advertisers. Today it would be near-impossible to bootstrap Smart Bear on those keywords. So I think the ideal customer is: SaaS, ISV, Web Products. But this was 2003 when AdWords was new.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

For example, Bluestone , an online jewelry startup from India, was trying to compete with the traditional brick and mortar jewelry business market. Try to outsource non-strategic aspects of your business to minimize expenses. Bootstrapping or self-funding. Your business model should support your growth goals.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Why compete with Slack? A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. Three years ago, we launched Chanty, a SaaS application for team chat. This was nothing new. Here’s that story.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several So what happened?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

Between the various things I’ve been doing and my own efforts I started noticing just how much time in this business goes into context work — all of the stuff besides the core of what your are building — and how hard it is, how much you have to sacrifice, especially if you are bootstrapping. Guilty! :-).

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

To my mind, it’s fear of the unknown that holds most of us back and not the thought of whether we’re competent enough or intelligent enough or whatever else we feel is needed to run a business. Or is it about running a non-profit soup kitchen for the unemployed? However, you can also start a corporation or a non-profit company.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

It was bootstrapped. And to me that means competing – and winning – in business – with an eye toward the purpose that we strive for.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Why compete with Slack? A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. Three years ago, we launched Chanty, a SaaS application for team chat. This was nothing new. Here’s that story.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

WikiJob conducted a split test where they added only three testimonials to a test page to compete against their original version. If you’re in software or e-commerce, there are plenty of “credible” competitors and non-competitors featuring faces with testimonials in prominent areas of their websites. Very useful for practice!”.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Even A/B tests with well-conceived test concepts can lead to non-significant results and erroneous interpretations. The probability that the tests will compete with one another tends to be low here. If the assumption is wrong, there is a risk of long test runtimes and non-valid results. Bootstrapping. Why does this work?

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Competing with such companies is pure pleasure – just harp on their mis-understandings of the market. Bootstrap for years! You can bootstrap without VC money. Non-linearity is approaching. Non-linearity is the constant. Non-linearity is the change that you must be ready for. Yeah, I said.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. Meebo doesn’t even work right on Chrome or Opera. Living expense money 2.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Interesting perspective on why New York City could never compete in tech – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. The Key to Non-Profit Website #Design : An Attempt for a Cause – [link]. Lessons from working for startups – [link]. 40 Cool Paper Toys Samples – [link].

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

The key is to have several VCs or investors competing for the deal to arrive at a "fair" valuation. Lets say you have a non-founder CEO and two founders who are VPs; they will account for 6% of the stock. In that case, VC money is used mainly for "acceleration" and not for bootstrapping.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. It’s very rare that they actually successfully bootstrapped, because it’s just so hard to do if you can’t invest any money. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., ALEXIA TSOTSIS.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. This might just change.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. Also, similar start ups will have time to copy you, reorganize, and compete. This country has been self-destructing with a lot of non-productive activities, like useless internet apps and speculating on real estates.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Sometimes non-programmers arent very good at anticipating where there might be problems, so it makes sense to give a very high-level overview of what you expect to happen after the first milestone, and the programmer will know if any follow-up is necessary. However, as the complexity grows, the pool of competent developers shrinks.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies. Bob Ktastic , Social gaming Pioneer 6 votes by Mike DeVerna , Anon User, Andy Wright , (more) Mike DeVerna , Anon User, Andy Wright , David Yousling , Ankit Singh and Philip Wilkinson Ideally and we are talking from the bootstrapping stage you would want the following.

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