SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. PR for Startups - Tony Wright dot com , March 2, 2010 My startup (RescueTime) has enjoyed some pretty ridiculously good PR (online, print, and video).

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup PR Exit Strategy 150

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

The ultimate guide to Bootstrap | Webdesigner Depot – crowdspring.co/YTL8qt. Front End Style Guides Generators – crowdspring.co/1vAKDx7. 7 Experimental Interfaces That Show the Future of UI Design – crowdspring.co/1w2RIWg. Websites with Large Background Images: 25 Inspiring Examples – crowdspring.co/1ptvd94.

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Or you can always bootstrap the idea yourself, get some traction, and build your first startup organically. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. If you’re lucky, your guru also brings some commercial contacts to the table.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Stock Options 120

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

Tie Your Ego to the Product, Not the Process | Cap Watkins – [link]. “Real companies build real value by building real products that address real problems. Productivity’s Worst Enemy — And How to Conquer It – [link]. 40 Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

Growth rates for Apple’s four major hardware product lines – pic.twitter.com/apLp6PsiHX. 15 Useful Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers | DJDESIGNERLAB – crowdspring.co/1iDkMPO. Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/RNp263.

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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Acquisition Azure Open Source Seattle 71

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2017

Operating a company that makes products can be hard. This is a set of principles that can be applied to most products. So, you can see this as a sort of PR move, if you like. Companies like this can help you to redesign your factory in order to produce the most products, with as little waste as possible.

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Bootstrapping Lean PR Government 100

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

13 Resources to Design for Bootstrap | Vandelay Design Blog – [link]. Making Sense Of Type Classification (Part 2) | Smashing Magazine – [link]. 35+ Photography Business Cards for Your Inspiration – [link]. 13 Free Flat Icon Sets – [link]. 30 stunning examples of calendar design – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). in ten years?

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Lean Technical Review Startup Software Review 165

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Raise your first round of money, or bootstrap. You either do it on your own, taking all risks and responsibility yourself (“bootstrapping”), or you find investors that believe in your company. They need to challenge your way of thinking, your way of doing business, and your way of building products. Beware, it’s not always fun.

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Management Cofounder Startup Bootstrapping 120

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The product lens - [link]. The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger’s 8 Principles For Building Products People Want | TechCrunch - [link]. 10 Productivity Tips for Freelancers - [link]. Have we even noticed?

Social Media 104

Social Media Small Business Design Media 104

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2018

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Thanks to Guy Bauer, Guy Bauer Productions, LLC ! #9- Over my career, I’ve built–and successfully sold–several software companies by bootstrapping. Photo Credit: Jarom Manwaring.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Green Networking Small Business 110

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We didn’t have a PR company or a bunch of contacts, hence we needed to start from scratch. 36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage | Traindom Blog (tags: startup pr) [.] 36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage | Traindom Blog (tags: startup pr) [.] Here are my lists. Sign up now!

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Startup Software Review PR 63

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

crowdSPRING SmallBiz Newsletter: new 1099 rules, biz plans, building software products – [link]. Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link]. Design guidelines for e-commerce product pages with eyetracking data – [link]. Small business and startup issues: choosing the wrong software – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2014

Some of the primary reasons so many businesses have turned to it include: - Prove Market Demand: Determine whether a potential customer base exists before producing your product. Test Positioning: See what marketing messages resonate behind your product. Delivery Issues. But fulfillment becomes the real part of it.

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Campaign Channel Bootstrapping Database 216

The Next Web

MAY 2, 2013

The company is best known for its flagship product, ShortStack , software that’s designed to help small business owners and designers create custom apps that harness the power of social media. ShortStack recently celebrated its second birthday; Pancake Labs has several new software products slated for release in 2013.

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Video Nevada Founder Social Media 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s non-dilutive capital you don’t have to pay back, plus it tends to create a great PR opportunity. Basically, a bunch of tech startups pitch or demonstrate their product to a committee. We bootstrapped the company, operating in a break-even cash flow environment. The winner usually gets somewhere between $10,000 and $100,000.

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Venture Capital Equity SBA Finance 105

ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Startup PR. Bootstrapping. The prioritization of these qualities is highly subjective and specific to the project/product being named. The “Descriptive” Name: Describes what the product is, helps make the site memorable. Often evocative of the product/service. April 11, 2012 – Event Recap.

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Naming Startup Technical Review Cofounder 45

The Next Web

MAY 1, 2013

The company is best known for its flagship product, ShortStack , software that’s designed to help small business owners and designers create custom apps that harness the power of social media. ShortStack recently celebrated its second birthday; Pancake Labs has several new software products slated for release in 2013.

Nevada 112

Nevada Founder Social Media Cofounder 112

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience. Current and new customers care a lot more about product or service quality, and the value of your item. The people are the target of my efforts.

Sweat Equity 60

Sweat Equity Equity Sales PR 60

techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

be the manager and product developer). Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Designer – Good design can make or break a product so make sure you have someone who can think about and drive all design aspects of your business – from brand/logos, the appearance of the product and marketing materials.

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San Francisco Startup PHP San Diego 44

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. Is that a $20 million market?

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Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

Austin Startup

APRIL 10, 2017

Seriously, this is not an exaggeration I think people throw around the word “bootstrapped” too casually. I hate to break it to you, but raising 500K from a friends and family round is not being a bootstrapped startup. When you’re scraping together cash to get by, offering people money just isn’t an option.

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Bootstrapping CPA Cofounder PR 54

Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It endearingly represents the ingenuity and collaboration required to bootstrap a project. As an entrepreneur, you can draw comparisons to innovation, product differentiation, and other tried-and-true business concepts, but don’t try too hard make the analogies work. The Great Invisible (March 2014); Limited release.

Entrepreneur 157

Entrepreneur Non-Compete New York Mexico 157

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Search engine optimization (SEO) can provide low cost opportunities for a startup to market its products and/or services. Startups – especially bootstrapped startups – typically don’t have funds to hire SEO experts and must find ways to execute SEO strategies on their own.

Engineer 90

Engineer Search SEO Startup 90

Start Up Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Art of bootstrapping. Outsourcing ( digital & production). PR – Getting on TV, radio and in newspapers (all of which I’ve done before – see [link] ). What stuff are we covering? Content taught includes: - Idea generation. Idea validation. - Setup costs / legal Tips & tricks. Project / Cash flow management.

Bootstrapping 63

Bootstrapping Early Stage PR Social Media 63

Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 Then I read, listened to tons of podcasts/audio books, saved 10K of my per diem traveling money so I wouldn’t have to go in debt to acquire products & launched. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4 Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack !

Entrepreneur 128

Entrepreneur South Africa PR Thailand 128

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. Product lessons we can learn from Google+ | Inside Intercom – crowdspring.co/1o6ZpYG. Why Products Created By Ad Agencies Fail | Co.Create – crowdspring.co/1lDryD6. – crowdspring.co/1j2mWos.

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2017

Although the product has changed and evolved over these years, the underlying vision—to enable better real-time communications—has remained unchanged. If a product fails to target a specific pain point, then it will not last for very long in a competitive market. A business cannot sustain itself without a working product.

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Campaign Startup Cloud Channel 80

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. If you are in a business where everyone else is freemium I would encourage you to think about charging for your product. Have you seen paid acquisition work for freemium businesses?

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Acquisition Customer Bootstrapping Viral 56

Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2018

As Fortune 500 Product Manager Andre Bourque explained in an article in CIO , “As an entrepreneur, you are a problem-solver. It can be a great option for entrepreneurs when hiring full-time staff often simply isn’t an option for a fledgling company, especially if your business is bootstrapped. The benefits of outsourcing.

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Entrepreneur Algorithm Hiring Web Development 177

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. A description of the problem you’re solving for your customers, and your solution to the problem, which is usually your product or service. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2016

Or, perhaps your story is about how you bootstrapped your business by starting several side businesses and never gave up on your dream, even in the face of adversity. Tom Smith of Insights From Analytics recommends doing PR outreach to local media and sharing your story.

Social Media 60

Social Media Elevator Pitch Guerilla Campaign 60

View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Your product launch. Reporters are hyper-sensitive to hyperbole, and they won’t take you seriously if you oversell your product or services. 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.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Startup CTO Hire 120

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2012

These tools are used to increase productivity and efficiency; grouped together these tools are called Information Technology (IT). On any given day I could be acting as bookkeeper, HR person, PR agent, or people manager. “Bootstrapping” and organic growth are our methods of operation. If so, what and why?

Small Business 72

Small Business Chicago Bootstrapping PR 72

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. A lot has happened since then.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220