A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. Note that some of those companies were bootstrapped, some bootstrapped and took money later, and some had huge funding from the start. The crap of it is, those VC’s who continue to invest in Nguyen are acting rationally.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

As an entrepreneur it means bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap. The investment won’t work if you spend $80K on legal fees preparing investment documents that include things like registration rights and all those other terms that will never get used. Spend nickels like they were manhole covers.

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Up and Running

MAY 7, 2018

It wasn’t enough to bootstrap GoPro, though, so he turned to family and friends who together raised a further $65,000. By 2005, GoPro had $150,000 in revenue. Online dating site Plenty of Fish is another famous bootstrapped company. He also had a dream and a vision, and he somehow raised $10,000 to get his idea off the ground.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

That was the thought behind Meebos decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. So are referrals. The only stipulation? People would only get paid if the candidates got hired. How do you determine who’s right for your company?

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Intellectual Property Los Angeles San Francisco New York 55

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. David from FatCatApps is doing great with his easy pricing tables and easy opt-in plugins.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. On the other hand, I haven’t done client based marketing since 2005 when I swore I’d never do it again. That was a company founded by Brian Gardener who is a principle here in Rainmaker Digital.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks. Bootstrapping 101. ► July. (1). ► May. (1).

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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. The post The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping first appeared on Rob Walling - Serial Entrepreneur. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2012

While you do need some money to get started, you can seriously reduce the amount if you take advantage of some key bootstrapping strategies. More and more you’re starting to wonder, Should I just cut my losses and throw in the towel now? Not so fast.

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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. David from FatCatApps is doing great with his easy pricing tables and easy opt-in plugins.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

And we received offers of support from successful founders who have raised funding, bootstrapped, and those who’ve done both: +1 on that! And apparently, the message resonated… In less than 48 hours we received opt-ins from 3,800 founders, investors and onlookers. Would love to chat and see how/if we can help.

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entrepreMusings

JUNE 6, 2011

Then when the bubble burst she bootstrapped the company until she was able to sell it to a publicly traded company in 2005. She launched a venture-backed Internet start-up in 1999 about the same time I launched my first company. The company was also awarded a patent for its unique method for generating new money for charity.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie (CEO) and Dylan Smith (CFO), Box provides a secure content sharing platform where content can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone applications, among others, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. Android Backlash.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

In fact, for a good laugh, I just went back and checked our accounting system, and at the end of one quarter in 2005, we were down to $143 cash on the balance sheet. Bootstrapping 101. For a while, it seemed like we were constantly walking along the edge of a cliff and had several near death experiences. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Out of the 12,500 founders of these firms, 181 (1.7%) die at some point between starting up the firm and the end of 2005 (Hvide 6). Bootstrapping 101. Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. This leaves a relatively small sample. Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

A 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office indicates that textbook prices have outpaced inflation by more than 2-1 over the past two decades and account for 26% of tuition and fees at four-year public universities and nearly three-quarters of costs at community colleges. ► September. (1). Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

In looking back at the old financials, at the end of Q2 2005, our cash balance was a whopping $546. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005. While bootstrapping, there are multiple options from doing as a side project, changing the business, raising angel or venture, etc. Bootstrapping 101.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Information Asymmetry in Bootstrapping. Conferences are for Conversations » Wednesday Oct 12 2005. Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at 01:15PM. October 13, 2005 |. The Importance of Being Authentic. Friction is Multiplicative. Know Your VC’s Magic Number. « Reasonable Demands |.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

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?

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Spencer Fry

MAY 11, 2011

A quick Google search for "bootstrap marketing" brings up a bunch of useless nonsense. The results are either in the form of "Top 10 Bootstrap Marketing Tips" or "Bootstrap Marketing 101" guides. Since launching in December 2005, we've given away just under 500 of these.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

From 2005 to 2008, I was one of the top five poker players in the world, so if you have an asset like that, and there happens to be a poker tournament half an hour away, and you happen to need the money, it’s like all the stars kind of align, right?” Funding a Business BloomNation bootstrapping funding startup VC venture capital'

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Bootstrapping still works in the insurance industry. As part of this bootstrapping, you can also start by selling insurance to people in your inner circle. Danielle Kunkle is a founding partner at Boomer Benefits , a national agency specializing in Medicare-related insurance products since 2005. There are lots of warm prospects.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Up to 2005 they were the only solution supported by all major browsers at the time. 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. Old school. and later).

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

When I pulled out the May 30, 2005 issue with Real Estate Gold Rush on the cover and posting the question "Inside the hot-money work of housing speculators, condo-flippers, and get-rich-quick schemers. Just needed a good cry on the keyboard.Logan and John were wise to turn down the offer and continue to bootstrap Lyft (Zimride at the time).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I know firsthand what it takes to bootstrap a business from the ground up. Given enough determination, it’s never too late to acquire the skills and the mindset you need to bootstrap a start-up. Rather, to bootstrap a business, you have to share the wealth in terms of money, perks, and credit for a job well done.

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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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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

The early stage investors are going to take a huge hit since many of their portfolio companies will be capital starved and will be forced out of business or into fire sales. But some will be saved.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2013

The Singapore video games industry grew from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007 , and the sector currently comprises of around 60 games development, publishing and services-related companies, featuring various major global industry players such as Electronic Arts, LucasArts, Tecmo Koei, and Ubisoft. Bootstrapping to Success.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Mike Archives Subscribe The Single Founder Musings on software and startups from a single founder Home All Articles Bootstrapping a Business Business Daily Entries How to Build a Consulting Practice Lifestyle Entrepreneur Moon River Consulting Moon River Software Personal Single Founder Software Development Tech Tidbits The Good, the Bad, (..)

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 9, 2012

There were 30 of us the first time I went back in 2005. He setup New Work City in whatever tiny little closet would have him, got pulled in every which direction by city government's initial attempts to "help" and finally bootstrapped his way to a real space. It bootstrapped the activity while introducing you to it at the same time.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

the meebo that launched in 2005 was a group effort – the idea primarily came from sandy being a huge IMer and having trouble getting on IM when we were working on earlier ideas in elaine’s apartment! Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track).

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It was early in 2005 and the company was Facebook. Bootstrapping 101. The scenes in the NY restaurant, Stanford dorm room, and Facebook office were some of the funniest in the whole movie. Got me thinking back to one of the best start-up pitches I ever saw. Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1). ► May. (1).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Seed Startups. Updated Business tools for Startups. Get Satisfaction.

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