ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

Following the success of Ycombinator and TechStars, in recent years we have seen literally hundreds of regional incubators set up in the rest of the US and Europe , across campuses and within vertical industries, such as mobile or finance. Notable US seed accelerator programmes by location showing total number of startups funded to 2010.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Reply Charlie Crystle , on April 8, 2010 at 12:31 pm Said: brilliant post. The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

The State of Web Development 2010 – [link]. Logo Design Trends 2010 – [link]. 20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link]. Gorgeous and Versatile CSS Menus – [link].

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Getting Out of the Building Wasn’t Entertainment – Discovery and Validation Now that I was the master of the “facts” about customer needs in these specialized vertical markets , and with my team of vertical marketers , I thought I had achieved absolution and redemption. But there was one fatal flaw.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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