Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

This applies to bootstrapped companies. I’ve seen first-hand how funded competition can crush a bootstrapping company. Your funded competitor hires a PR firm and appears in Inc. All of this combines to make vertical niches the best option, by far, for someone bootstrapping a company. #3: AdWords go from $.50

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2011

Turning an Addiction into a Bootstrapped Startup – [link]. If accurate, remarkable projections of how much Kindle contributes to Amazon’s revenues/profits – [link]. iPhone share of phone market in Q1: 5% volumes, 20% revenues, 55% profit – [link]. Kill Math, by Bret Victor – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. Revenue is the new black | Gigaom – [link]. Revenue Doesn’t Matter – [link]. IAB: US Interactive Ad Revenues Hit $9.3 How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link].

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2018

Over my career, I’ve built–and successfully sold–several software companies by bootstrapping. Celebrating small wins here and there certainly helps like the revenue goals, email list size goals, social followers and being recognized. Thanks to Secret Bridgewater, The Social Secret ! #13- Photo Credit: Marty Schultz.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Just 25 Developers Grabbed 50% Of App Revenues On U.S. Micro VC’s and Super Angels Two Years Later – Looking Back and Some Predictions for the Future | Business Insider – [link].

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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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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

advertising) on Facebook, Twitter, Google, and be preceded by a press and PR campaign to try and get coverage in the relevant press outlets and blogs. In addition to enabling additional software, sometimes hardware can also enable new revenue models.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

For a very simple reason: It’ll save you many thousands in getting your idea to market and real revenue quicker. Art of bootstrapping. PR – Getting on TV, radio and in newspapers (all of which I’ve done before – see [link] ). If you’re planning a Corporate Escape or are an early stage entrepreneur. What stuff are we covering?

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” I would assume most businesses are going to claim they should get VC funding in order to help their PR, even if no one at the company actually believes it.

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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 have funding then freemium is possible to pull off, but growing a company organically using its own revenue doesn’t work when you have an extremely low customer lifetime value (LTV).

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

It’s usually hard to figure out who to meet and there’s a range of events within the events, entertainment cocktails, Pr events in restaurants nearby, but there’s no easy way to find out about them. The market analysis showed that they want to focus in the first year on 400 big conferences that represent most of the revenue.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

We didn’t think of it […] for PR reasons,” says David, who adds that while they did have some initial funds, using the resource seemed like a no-brainer to the founders. It wasn’t like they invested in us with this premonition that we would raise revenue, they wanted to take the risk out of it,” says David.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Usually these discussions focus on Marketing, PR, Customer Service or an Agency. Artists are using Social Media as a a catalyst to boost popularity, create new revenue streams and promote global goodness. Bootstrapping a community from zero users. But in the media world there's another option: the Social Media Editor.

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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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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Yes its great to implement "task A", but will it drive revenue? Insightful. Thanks much. How much effort will it cost? Keep it Simple.

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