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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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. To continue with our eCommerce example, a possible title for a blog post could be: How to Build a Web Store You Can Be Proud of. Enable RSS subscription. Email signatures.

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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? What would the ideal web technology start-up team be comprised of?

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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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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Web Design. Web Development. So You’re Going To Start A Huge New Web Project. The web app Beanstalk does git repository hosting and deployment. Performance is often this thing web teams do "later on." I asked on Twitter: "What kind of advice would you give someone about to start a huge new web project?"

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www.iubenda.com

OCTOBER 25, 2011

If you are not a web designer and you dont even know what a Privacy Policy actually is, you dont signup there, and thats what we want, since your signup would be worthless and confuse both metrics and the way we think the product launch is perceived. Web Designer by the age of 10. Follow this blog via RSS Feed. Gioia Pistola.

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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. Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com , an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web. a “magazine rack&# of web articles.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. process in detail. I highly recommend that all of you read the discussion.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. process in detail. I highly recommend that all of you read the discussion.

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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. Creating a web presence that converts into sales comes down to two key factors: Are your websites and social media properties easy to use, full of valuable information, and regularly updated? Quick action steps: Tracking your web presence.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more!  RSS. Not long ago designers who laid out web pages also had to plunge into myriad layers of nested tables, ferreting out that one misplaced or making the same tedious width change across many pages. CSS frameworks could not have come to be without pivotal changes in web page layout.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. This requires a visual web-editor (assuming you’re building a web-application). Personally I use Visual Web-Developer from Microsoft - it’s free and powerful.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. 25+ Fresh Business Cards Ideas to Inspire You | Bloom Web Design Blog – [link].

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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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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The approach involves going to a source of (often public) data and finding out how many X’s there are in the world, where X is your target consumer…be it a barber shop, web design firm or male under the age of 34. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The guidelines I had originally proposed to my students worked for enterprise software or Web 2.0 Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0, Bootstrap for years! You can bootstrap without VC money. startups, but medical device, biotech and cleantech startups required radically different approaches.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

GenuineVC - David Beisel RSS. An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Information Asymmetry in Bootstrapping. Sure, your iPhone phone can tell you the time, and also allow you to surf the web, listen to music, check your email and take phones replica watches as the ultimate, yet others prefer Roger Moore s bond. Previous Entries.

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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. Launch Day.

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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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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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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Collaboration & Workgroups Homecourt – Homecourt is a Web-based collaboration tool. WorkflowPerfect – A Web-based business process tool that facilitates collaboration.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 says: July 10, 2009 at 11:17 am fantastic article.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I tried to use facebooker in some pet project and all the commands that were explained on the web to use Facebooker wouldn’t work on Windows. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. How I started I tried Ruby on Rails a few months ago but my experience was very frustrating.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I tried to use facebooker in some pet project and all the commands that were explained on the web to use Facebooker wouldn’t work on Windows. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. How I started I tried Ruby on Rails a few months ago but my experience was very frustrating.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

The automated tooling that Netflix has developed lets us quickly deploy large scale Cassandra clusters, in this case a few clicks on a web page and about an hour to go from nothing to a very large Cassandra cluster consisting of 288 medium sized instances, with 96 instances in each of three EC2 availability zones in the US-East region.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. - Travel Agencies. Web Design/Tech Services. WSJ Web Slice.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups. Balderdash Developers Log(n) Consultants RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers. Powered by Personforce. Latest on TechCrunch TV.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. Insightful.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. I initially found your blog a week or so ago, and I want to subscribe to your RSS feed.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Domains.Co.

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