ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Marcial proposes to use friends living in the United States to transport products on behalf of consumers in Costa Rica who are regular customers of products from the US e-commerce vendors. and each book costs $375 retail.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). But really, are all those acquirers so stupid? Surely not.

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VC Cafe

MAY 5, 2011

According to the Analyzd website, the company operates as a custom-made consulting practice in the field of online payments, fraud detection, risk management and business intelligence, using the constant stream of data received by the site. Analyzd is less than one year old and completely self-funded by the Samet brothers, Ohad and Yuval.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

She partnered with Rett Clevenger who at that time was an online media manager for a large e-commerce site, to launch Steals.com in April 2008. The revenue in 2012 was $16.4 Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I asked her not to assume that investors will be investing in this business idea, at least not until she can acquire some level of validation, which means tens, if not hundreds of thousands of customers, and several partnerships with daily deal sites. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

At today's roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems. Antonio has 100 trial customers at the moment, and is looking to figure out exactly what his company positioning is going to be. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable. That’s because the model is based on assumptions about customers that are totally unproven.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. StratExcel. System-Sea.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Also, the business is primarily on CD-ROMs right now, but the good news is that the CD-ROM product is selling and generating revenue. It could be a good business to bootstrap the social/mobile edutainment business with. The good news, again, is that this business is generating revenues. A mistake, in my opinion. Techsailor.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

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. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

All I could assess that he is bound to face a chicken-and-egg problem - not having enough scale to attract product vendors to use their channel, versus not having products with which to build a customer base. Detailed segmentation analysis and target customer definition at a fairly granular level. How does he mitigate that?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

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. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once. Step 2: Own Your Time.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008. Last year, I tried out a custom textbook through one of the major publishers, which seemed like a great way to go. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

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. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

They hope to create an innovative platform that will shake up the floral industry, and help both customers and florists alike. One of the unique floral arrangements that customers can find at BloomNation.com. But, of course, they need funding—and wouldn’t you know it, one of the founders is a world class poker player.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

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Rob Go

JANUARY 16, 2013

I went to Groupon to find the daily deal site has just launched a couple weeks prior in Boston, after running a few deals in CHicago in late 2008. Today, it was reported that Lynda raised $103M after bootstrapping itself to over $100M in revenue. Really impressive.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

The current business model for expert consultants is a brick and mortar industry with revenues of about 1/2 a Billion dollars per year. In 2008, I decided to take this concept and implement it as a web site, so Molecular Thinking was born. GuruStorms has been completely bootstrapped thus far.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

Always Make New Mistakes » April 14, 2008. Now, as their revenue grows substantially, its time to make the shift toward a more quantitative management environment. Can we quantify success in terms of calls, visits, customer sizes, and so forth? Bootstrapping. . | Trust but Verify.or Are You Ready to be Quantitative?

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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. No venue wants to be told that their product is worthless, and no customer wants to go see a show that’s unsellable,” said Robert Graff. Startup #1: Goldstar. Startup #3: Litmus.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

August 2008 Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup.The hardest part is making something people want: most startupsthat die, die because they didnt do that. Investors evaluate startups the way customers evaluate products,not the way bosses evaluate employees. We could not have bootstrapped Viaweb, for example.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

John Jantsch: Now, obviously nobody’s buying or if people are buying and saying it doesn’t work, that gives you the feedback you need, but do you have any ways that you intentionally stay close enough to customers to understand that? In 2008, and 2009, we were really starting to grow. It’s your go-to-market strategy.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. It requires some serious fine-tuning, which will offer guidance on where the best customers are going to be. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. I think this is a question on many minds, and we discussed it today as a core topic.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Go ahead and laugh, but over 95% of Moon River Software’s revenue this year has been from consulting services. The software I sell has made up less than 5% of total revenue in the past 12 months. Let’s turn the tables and think about an off the wall question: Do you even need a product? Agree with all of them.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Accounting, Billing, Invoicing, Estimating & Contracts LiteAccounting – Invoice and track payment from your customers without a bunch of extra, useless features. endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

First up, David Nordell from Kfar Ya'avetz, Israel, pitched New Global Markets , a solution for making it easier for banks to offer their customers global banking facilities. For example, say, Barclays has a customer in the UK who also wants a bank account in India. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

Despite being a bootstrapped company with little revenue, we over-invested in a central New York City office at a rate of 15% rent to revenue. Our customers never visited our workspace; this was a decision made solely for the comfort of our staff. The truth is, it’s better to be more diverse in what you do.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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