SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

- Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents. New research from Utpal Dholakia and Emily Durham of Rice University takes a look at this question.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 20, 2019

By issuing crypto tokens, platforms gave early users an incentive to help bootstrap the service and solve the often inherent chicken and egg problem. If the underlying platform acts mostly like an open-source software library but “states” are not stored on the protocol level (e.g.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. Capital: Needing seed capital to support living expenses while bootstrapping, can make efficient use of limited capital, would generally be planning on self/angel/customer financing as a next step coming out of the program. Apply to TechWildcatters here.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. Capital: Needing seed capital to support living expenses while bootstrapping, can make efficient use of limited capital, would generally be planning on self/angel/customer financing as a next step coming out of the program. Apply to TechWildcatters here.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. June 17th, 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. See my interview a couple of years ago with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

Some of the big ones are open source , cloud computing and virtual office infrastructure. The virtual office tools today are so impressive that you can source talent globally and simultaneously improve productivity while cutting costs–unthinkable 10 years ago. As an entrepreneur it means bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

The RBI investment model better aligns incentives between VCs and a founder who chooses to bootstrap. Dig into the numbers and run your own scenarios with an open spreadsheet and video walkthrough. Take SparkToro, for example, which raised an unusual round of financing and open-sourced all their documents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. See my interview a while back with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 20, 2012

Erica Douglass bootstrapped her company and sold it for a million dollars while her friends were switching majors for the third time or dicking around at some entry-level job. She’s successful by any measure. circa 2008.) According to Erica’s criteria, let’s see who wins. This is what physicists call a “time-asymmetry.”

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. See my interview a couple of years ago with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Elizabeth Eadie: Super fun! But.where are the ladies? Mike Brenner: The song is called "Stereo" by a group called. Mykel Nahorniak: Awesome video! Catchy tune.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. A few years ago, this is where you would sink all your hard earned bootstrap cash – but these days our friends at Amazon have given you a bunch of free hosting and space to get your next venture launched at no cost.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. See my interview a while back with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, —– Earnest Capital invests in bootstrapped companies to help them unlock more growth. We are committed to open-sourcing our learnings and materials. —– Indie.vc

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. That was a company founded by Brian Gardener who is a principle here in Rainmaker Digital. We came together in 2010. That was part of our overall initiative to build what became known as the Rainmaker platform.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Open source libraries (such as TensorFlow) make technology more accessible for less skilled or self-taught developers such as myself to use. In the beginning, this may not be a problem — you can bootstrap. Even the vast majority of all those “AI” and “big data” and “machine learning” pitches that I see are not in this category.

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The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 20, 2010

Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. Capital: Needing seed capital to support living expenses while bootstrapping, can make efficient use of limited capital, would generally be planning on self/angel/customer financing as a next step coming out of the program. Apply to TechWildcatters here.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Or Gimp, or the 1000s of other open source projects, built for free by software engineers. Perhaps are looking in the wrong field, since you have never even heard of open source development before? I crawled my way back and have largely been able to bootstrap the business. Maybe you have never heard of Linux?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. 15 Free Bootstrap Admin Themes – crowdspring.co/1jB1FYK. 38 Free Open Source CSS Dropdown Navigation Menus | SpyreStudios - crowdspring.co/RHLTj6. – crowdspring.co/1j2mWos.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

For our metrics we mainly use Graphite , the graphing and analysis system open-sourced last year by Orbitz. Can't beat that in terms of bootstrapping. This keeps us from having to hit our database too much. The RightAWS gem makes interacting with SimpleDB pretty easy. Our whole team is falling more in love with it every day.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? Here are 10 bootstrapped companies that did it on their own with no outside funding. Looking back on their previous experiences working at startup companies, the founders decided to bootstrap their business in lieu of seeking outside funding. Startup #1: Goldstar. How’d they do it?

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

I could download mp3 music for free from Napster, but most of the software I wanted was not open source yet and had to be purchased. The only way to get free software was to apply for beta programs, which were not open to the public back then and usually required that you sign an Non-Disclosure Agreement.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Twitter Bootstrap : Created by Mark Otto and Angus Droll , Bootstrap makes its learning curve worth the effort. What it lacks in stylesheet comments Bootstrap makes up in online documentation and sample files. What it lacks in stylesheet comments Bootstrap makes up in online documentation and sample files. and later).

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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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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

If an instance dies for any reason, the ASG automatically creates a replacement instance and the Netflix tooling manages bootstrap replacement of that node in the Cassandra cluster. Why we use and contribute to open source software. Posted by Adrian Cockcroft. at 2:41 PM. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Explain how you bootstrapped $1 million in revenue or landed 25 hot new clients, and you’re sure to get interest. Go open source : Participating in open source projects isn’t just a great way to learn and gain experience; it’s an incredible resume-builder.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. MagSuite – An open source marketing automation, sales force automation, accounting, service automation and inventory control system. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Bootstrapped companies have no such luxury. WordPress itself is open source; Automattic (the company behind WordPress) couldn't kill off this community if they tried. is still around at least, but wisely pivoted into matching celebrities (like Mandy Moore) with major brands (like NBC). They "survived.".

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2010

I've been toying with the idea of open sourcing some kind of startup education program or making it a multi-school thing, but again, not sure how I can feed myself with that. Love the problem, don't love the solution set of positions. All of the above? Could they be effective agents of change?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). I’m never approached as a partner but, instead, get this spiel about “bootstrapping&# and “seeking funding&# and something about an exciting new project I could learn a lot of stuff doing.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s very rare that they actually successfully bootstrapped, because it’s just so hard to do if you can’t invest any money. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives. All other code increasingly uses a ton of open source code. The GitHub guys did an amazing job.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Yair Margolin: Php, MySql (built for scalability on servers) and open source (you can add any API very quickly abd it’s also cheap). It’s great to see an early stage company bootstrapping and trying to make a difference in an area ripe for disruption. VC Cafe: What technologies did you choose to build BizMe2?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 21, 2015

Slim, bootstrapping teams could wear a designer hat and produce the rich content quickly and inexpensively by enlisting some of these fantastic content-producing tools: Capture the moment with Skitch. Don’t use any old font, use Dafont. Sick of using Times and Ariel in your creative. Aren’t we all?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business - [link]. Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business - [link]. Nice work from Facebook on HipHop (open sourced today) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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