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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #8: Bootstrap or VC?

Austin Startup

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Bootstrap Austin, started by Bijoy Goswami. The original Bootstrap Austin was truly special and Bijoy did an amazing job bringing together some terrific entrepreneurs.

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Building Bootstrapping into Business Models

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Once the bootstrapped launch of the play center is cash flow positive, all kinds of options for growing and expanding emerge. John Wark sent along a great example of how bootstrapping did not stop a new venture called Logik from making the Inc 500. And did the bootstrapping limit their ability to grow, as it often commonly assumed?

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The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stair Step Approach. Step 3: Recurring Revenue. Step 2: Own Your Time.

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The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. Step 3: Recurring Revenue. Step 2: Rinse and Repeat.

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The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. Step 3: Recurring Revenue. Step 2: Rinse and Repeat.

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. But really, are all those acquirers so stupid? Surely not. Which explains why their stock price is at $2.43

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Ten Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups

Software By Rob

Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? Here are 10 bootstrapped companies that did it on their own with no outside funding. Looking back on their previous experiences working at startup companies, the founders decided to bootstrap their business in lieu of seeking outside funding. Startup #1: Goldstar. How’d they do it?