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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. Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Subscribe by email. Invested Interests. Who Makes the Money on an Inevitable Shoe Dropping?

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The Startup Toolkit

MAY 18, 2012

I’ve begun the £10k bootstrap challenge , where I’m trying to bootstrap my way to profitability with a new set of products before running out of money. Get the updates on rss , email , or youtube as I [hopefully don't] fail. Think of it as joining me on the bootstrap challenge. Sign up here!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 4, 2010

I feel myself transforming into the Dr. Laura of bootstrapped entrepreneurs.). I don't care if the guest has 4 RSS subscribers or 4 New York Times best-selling books. Gee, is this therapy for me or for you ? Probably both. So over the next few months I'm going to run a few guest posts. Ground rules. I will ignore the poster's fame.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? Mechanics Need Tools Discussion 9 Comments | Comment RSS Sirwan on the 16th March Reply   Excellent article, perfect! Will grab your RSS feed too.

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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. This is what physicists call a “time-asymmetry.”

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Subscribe to our RSS feed or get Traindom blog posts sent to you by email. Reply SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups | Shark SEO says: November 19, 2010 at 10:04 am [.] Get information marketing tips Follow Us ON TWITTER Follow us on RSS Sign up for Traindom newsletter Get valuable inside tips and tricks about Traindom.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The blog Bootstrapping Independence recently posted a very thorough list of some additional resources and reminders for building a detailed launch plan. Install Analytics Setup RSS feeds for mentions of my site, or target keywords on blogs, twitter, and other social sites. and include a few new users who haven't seen the product yet.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2012

David Heinemeier Hansson doesn’t deserve to be alive either for instance — he makes millions of dollars at his bootstrapped, profitable, beloved business , he’s honored by geeks for creating Ruby on Rails , he’s a New York Times best-selling author and a race car driver, and all this with a 30-hour work-week.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

); Login or signup Welcome | Logout Member Login Login using: Use your Inc.com account: Forgot login ? Create an Inc.com account: Home Magazine Blogs Ask Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. How do you determine who’s right for your company?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Whether you’re bootstrapping or have just secured a round of funding – chances are you want to attract as many customers to sign up for your product/service. Enable RSS subscription. This post was originally published on Paymill’s blog. Luckily covering the basics only takes a few minutes to implement. Post to social media.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

L et’s face it: with the amount of information we get on a daily basis through browsing and reading news, RSS, Twitter, Facebook and other sources, it’s becoming increasingly harder to cut the wheat from the chaff. How do bootstrapped companies hire talent?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 8, 2010

We all have dreams of stratospheric growth, whether it's hoping the next blog post will get 267 votes on Hacker News and double your RSS subscribers , or hoping that the advent of release v1.1 In fact, any bootstrapped company should be aiming for slow, consistent growth rather than explosive growth. will set the blogosphere ablaze.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. Can't beat that in terms of bootstrapping. If a release goes out and suddenly there are new errors, thats a sign that the batch was bad and needs to be reverted.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. Yes, I am sure Davids venture is eminently fundable within a few months.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. Yes, I am sure Davids venture is eminently fundable within a few months.

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www.iubenda.com

OCTOBER 25, 2011

We release a freebie, wp-bootstrap , WordPress theme based on the Twitter Bootstrap toolkit, downloaded a few hundred times (powering this blog too). Follow this blog via RSS Feed. We pitched at Seedcamp London, the experience was really awesome, really, and iubenda got featured on The Guardian and on The WSJ. Follow @iubenda.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. 2 comments Mint Life Know your money. Live your life. Hopefully, there are one or two well-known venture capitalists. Who is on your board of directors?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Create a list of influencers you trust, and subscribe to their RSS and social media feeds. Start by searching on Google and asking your industry contacts for solid resources that cover how your industry works. Budget time every day to read content, watch videos, and consume valuable information. Knowledge is power.

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grasshopper.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Funded companies are typically a safer bet than bootstrapped ventures for two important reasons. Has This Company Been Funded? As part of your risk assessment of a company, determine whether the company has been funded. First and foremost, a funded company has more money to work and compete with. Your email address will not be published.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

 RSS. 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.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Oh wait, no…that’s right, it didn’t.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Bootstrap for years! You can bootstrap without VC money. Yeah, I said. You kids have to learn to do it the old fashioned way they did it before they new economy and Silicon Valley. Reply David Locke , on June 8, 2009 at 8:48 am Said: In economics, there is an industry stack. Vertical markets are a risk and cost reduction strategy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour. The other is, ‘Don’t forget about bootstrapping.’ Just take it out of the RSS reader. Why listen? There are two essays in there, right?

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

GenuineVC - David Beisel RSS. An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Information Asymmetry in Bootstrapping. David Beisel's Perspective on Digital Change. Previous Entries. David Beisel. Internet VC at NextView Boston / Cambridge, MA david at nextviewventures dot com @davidbeisel?. Most Popular Entries. The Problem with Talking to VCs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. 50 Stunning RSS Symbol Inspired Logo Designs – [link]. How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link]. 50 Outstanding logo designs – [link].

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups [.] thanks for all this info.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Here’s the deal: I work in the bootstrapped startup world and in this arena you don’t need $500k to build a product. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong.

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Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Set monetary/sales goals: After you've modeled out your potential revenue growth, setting sales goals will give you a better understanding of when you can raise money on good terms or quit your day job and bootstrap. It's great to have numbers to work toward that aren't arbitrary. Miscellaneous.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Learn more about: Founders 40 responses so far · Comments RSS # scott edward walker · Nov 12, 2009 Great post. Learn more.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

); Login or signup Welcome | Logout Member Login Login using: Use your Inc.com account: Forgot login ? Create an Inc.com account: Home Magazine Blogs Ask Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It’s basic bootstrapping; you’ll want to leverage a little bit of high-level technical expertise to minimize risk. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 James, I hope you’ll give us an update later and let my readers know how this unfolds for you.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. But that’s not the point, it allows you to get your ideas out quicker & then figure out the scaling problem when you actually have one :) Reply Karthik permalink My experience almost completely mirrors yours.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 2, 2012

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Watch out for no-man’s land on the road to bootstrapping a startup – solid post (& pie charts) via @mhenders [link] “[T]he single greatest contributor to low morale is lack of communication.”

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. But that’s not the point, it allows you to get your ideas out quicker & then figure out the scaling problem when you actually have one :) Reply Karthik permalink My experience almost completely mirrors yours.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Reply Does the Lean Startup revolutionize bootstrapped marketing? Nobody enjoys a rejection. Getting to the 4th “Yes&# would be an exercise in punishment. How did you overcome that in your later ventures? matt daniels , on November 8, 2009 at 7:34 pm Said: [.] To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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