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Why do marketplaces make great businesses?

Austin Startup

It’s looking equally good for the bootstrapped and indie-funded marketplaces too. Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). Reason 3: Cheap to get started The third and most exciting reason I love marketplaces is that they don’t require you to purchase any inventory or stock. They raised a whopping $2.4

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 One of the steps we took was to establish MAXIM BPO, a Business Process Outsourcing company in Manila, Philippines, to perform back-office functions for our various verticals including inbound/outbound call center, accounting and bookkeeping, and IT Support.

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Quickly Unpacking SAP’s $8B Acquisition Of Qualtrics

Haystack

By all accounts, the Utah-HQ’d company did everything the right way, was an overnight success 16 years in the making, and only raised venture capital as a growth company after years of bootstrapping. Of course, SAP or others could’ve made a run at Qualtrics earlier, and who knows – maybe folks had tried and failed.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

You need to be willing to bootstrap for about 5-10 years. In contrast to building a product company, where most people bootstrap for maybe 2-3 years and then either raise some money or build off of profits or throw in the towel, when you sign up to do your own VC, you are committed for 10 years (the standard life of a fund).

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

You need to be willing to bootstrap for about 5-10 years. In contrast to building a product company, where most people bootstrap for maybe 2-3 years and then either raise some money or build off of profits or throw in the towel, when you sign up to do your own VC, you are committed for 10 years (the standard life of a fund).

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

blog.teamtreehouse.com

Lacking vertical alignment, all of the frameworks were technically half grids. Fundamentally, frameworks resemble table-based layout of yore: Horizontal rows divided into vertical blocks. In a separate stylesheet, though, it includes styles to manage a site’s baseline, or vertical grid. Old school. Toast is simple.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. Residents are collaborating to start, finance and manage public works projects and proving they can bootstrap a better job themselves. What if phones were banned in store?

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