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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. This company is a project management tool that invented Ruby on Rails.

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How to build a multi-million dollar website without spending a cent

The Next Web

My personal favorites would be Java (Grails), Ruby (on rails) and PHP. 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. Step 3: Infrastructure and technology stack.

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Forget the geeks, learn about your company by going where your customers are

The Next Web

A group of venture-backed technology startups who are dedicated to serving and supporting local media by providing revenue generating opportunities. Having bootstrapped every project I have started, I know how it feels deciding on where you should be. ” I didn’t get one question about Ruby on Rails or anything like that.

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Mass Relevance Launches with Funding

Austin Startup

He’s joined by Brian Dainton and Eric Falcao, two seasoned Ruby developers who will hold the titles of Director of Products, and Director of Platform. Some started with funding and some were bootstrap. revenue) and innovation that large entertainment, media and retail clients will buy. Chief Content Officer for ad:tech.

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Startup Launch Checklist

Spencer Fry

Model our potential revenue: You should never found a company without a good idea about how you plan on making money. Even better, you should project how your potential revenue stream will grow over time. It's great to have numbers to work toward that aren't arbitrary. When I was at Carbonmade, we built Pulse to track our statistics.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

If you’re likely to use Ruby on Rails, find the local Ruby users group monthly meeting. If you’re in Sacramento, go to the Sacramento Ruby Meetup and go to the San Francisco Ruby Meetup as well. In this case, figure out the technology platform you’re likely to use and go where the users gather.

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Marketing Platform Independence

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Bootstrapped companies have no such luxury. Take Heroku , a fully-managed Ruby on Rails platform. is still around at least, but wisely pivoted into matching celebrities (like Mandy Moore) with major brands (like NBC). They "survived.". Of course you can't conclude that using another platform is automatically imprudent.

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