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. Aaron Wall, SEO Book Add a free feature which is accessible, useful, and spreads virally.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. What is our viral spread coefficient? What does it cost to acquire a new customer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

By far, the majority of new businesses I know are self-funding (bootstrapped) from your own savings and prior assets. It helps to advertise your new presence with a grand opening, viral video, and traditional advertising to highlight entry into the arena. Explore multiple sources based on your level of need and risk.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. Or any of the other approaches I would use to grow an app with a higher LTV ($150+).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. Plan and execute a pilot or local rollout. Good traction on a limited rollout is great validation of a business model.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing. It implies that founders are living on inexpensive Ramen noodles and barely covering living expenses in order to re-invest all returns back into the business. It’s a term of respect and endearment. Growth-hacking” marketing.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

You’re not going to go viral Dropbox style, so having a freemium model doesn’t really work. Let’s take a look at the benefits now: Freemium customers could be a great source of virality. I suspect we’ll get rid of the freemium model at some point soon as there’s no real benefit. Youtube ads. $1 1 freemium.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Marketing the Viral Effect and Not-for-Profit Gold – [link]. Why Do Some People Learn Faster? – [link]. Why Do Some People Learn Faster? – [link].

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Offer reporters an exclusive on the successful, viral campaign that got you there, or a behind-the-scenes look at what your product does and how you’ll deliver on this huge campaign’s promises. Although bootstrapping your startup is difficult, that in and of itself is not unique. That is objectively crazy. You’re breaking taboos.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link]. How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link]. How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link]. Why People Hate Your Viral Marketing – [link]. The Steps of Creative Communication – [link].

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Given the above we can gather some interesting realizations: Realization #1: If you’re bootstrapping, don’t plan to advertise. A very small percentage of startups have any hope of achieving a positive ROI with advertising (which you need if you’re bootstrapping). It doesn’t sustain at all. 1 in 100,000 at least.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We’re a bootstrapped company that started with more time than money. For viral growth, you want most of your traffic coming from “Browse features,” which consist of YouTube’s home screen, subscriptions, and other browsing features. As a bootstrapped company, profitability is one of the highest priorities for our paid marketing.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

If it doesn’t require much capital to get started and make money then it might be a better idea to bootstrap it. We believe the risk of low consumer adoption will be addressed if we can show a Viral Coefficient of 1.5 In either case, the best kind of funding comes from customers, not investors. with 95% Monthly Active Users.

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www.iubenda.com

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Dissection of a viral launch. Many of you asked, so I decided to write this blog post, dissecting the launch of iubenda and the viral system we invented. The viral system. We built our custom viral system based on the best examples out there, adding some further fresh ideas we had during the process. iubenda blog.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

It could also work well with a viral app (e.g. photo editors for Instagram) although you may find that the hype tends to pass quickly even for the most popular apps that went super viral. Therefore the better idea might be to take a look at a bootstrapped startup who is in a market for several years. Is it virality?

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 7, 2010

Keep operating costs down Bootstrapping -- the collection of tools and tactics that entrepreneurs use when they have limited resources -- already has become a crucial business skill in today's tough economic climate. Help is available for those who want to use bootstrapping to recover from the flood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

Even if you are funding the project yourself (bootstrapping), you should be asking yourself the same question before you have burned all your resources. Word of mouth and viral marketing alone are not adequate, and a website is not all you need for credibility. Sell at least one at full price to a real customer to show traction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. Execute a pilot plan in with a limited geographic scope. Good traction on a limited rollout is great validation of a business model.

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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. Think of it as joining me on the bootstrap challenge. The most nefarious slip-up is treating Twitter as a viral strategy: Sign up here!

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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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 4, 2010

I feel myself transforming into the Dr. Laura of bootstrapped entrepreneurs.). 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 still post every Monday, as usual.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Should you bootstrap? Viral videos on YouTube summarizing it. And essentially that was the idea behind the book, and that's what made us think about how we can help people to gain that kind of self-awareness to know what kind of business to go for, to know what kind of strategy to go for. Should you raise funding?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

We naively thought we would have a viral campaign, but it took us 4 months to create and cost us $25,000. As soon as I would say, “We’re bootstrapped,” I would see their eyes go over my shoulder and look for someone more valuable to talk to. . How do you have proof that they’ll pay for this?”

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

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. Maybe we can’t rely on our freemium, advertising-based, viral revenue model, though. Oh wait, no…that’s right, it didn’t.

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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. I recommend Tumblr , because it's easy and you can get some virality through re-blogging.

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Spencer Fry

JUNE 29, 2011

The Viral Strategy. We're all familiar with the idea of viral user acquisition: Your current users invite other users to use your service. Foursquare and similar viral success stories (Instagram, etc.) You want to be able to track how new viral users are coming into your system. Another issue is server growing pains.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

And that’s when I created the Bootstrapping summit where I highlighted, where I documented the journey of 100 Bootstrap entrepreneurs, and that helped me get exposure to about 5,000 people, that is 5,000 subscribers, and was actually a lot more than 5,000. Abdo Riani: Exactly. I like this idea. Abdo Riani: Oh, a lot.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Should you bootstrap? It's really popular on Good Reads, it's on YouTube, it a lot viral videos on YouTube's took, summarizing it. And that's what made us think about like how we can help people to gain that kind of self-awareness. To know what kind of business to go for, to know what kind of strategy to go for.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I know nothing about viral marketing. So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years. I don’t know how you get that many customers at scale without spending a lot. Once you get to breakout success, raising money from the bigger Sand Hill funds could be easier.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I know nothing about viral marketing. So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years. I don’t know how you get that many customers at scale without spending a lot. Once you get to breakout success, raising money from the bigger Sand Hill funds could be easier.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. On the one hand, bootstrapping your business gives you much more control over it. Producthunt.com is a great resource for viral marketing for the product launch as well as community feedback.”.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Jon Favreau (who also wrote and directed the film) stars as Carl Casper, a head chef who is fired after a video of his spat with a food critic goes viral. It endearingly represents the ingenuity and collaboration required to bootstrap a project. Chef (May 2014); Open Road Films.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

I’ll admit up front: I’m not a fan of using freemium in a bootstrapped business. I don’t know of any bootstrapped business that have used freemium successfully (though I’d love to hear about them in the comments), and I know of many funded businesses that have not used it successfully. My Thoughts.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

We naively thought we would have a viral campaign, but it took us 4 months to create and cost us $25,000. As soon as I would say, “We’re bootstrapped,” I would see their eyes go over my shoulder and look for someone more valuable to talk to. . How do you have proof that they’ll pay for this?”

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you.

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