SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. It is however, still a concept, not yet a business, and Adrian should not be under the misconception that VCs would be lining up outside his door to fund the business.

Costa Rica 114

Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

trillion times in aggregate ( source ). If you’re a seed/pre-seed/bootstrapped startup building in this space, we’d love to hear from you. Like Meta, Snap has a booming developer community who uses Snap Lens Studioo to build AR social filters: Over 250,000 developers have published a total of 2.5 Snap Spectacles.

Mobile 198

Mobile Global Aggregator Bootstrapping 198

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. MentorMob is bootstrapped and has 12 employees.

Illinois 165

Illinois Aggregator Chicago Widget 165

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

A few years back Google Ventures’ partner Rick Klau ran an experiment on his Twitter follow list and noticed he underfollowed women because his phone contact list (what is often used to bootstrap social graphs) biased male. He took steps to fix it.

Aggregator 87

Aggregator Bootstrapping Hosting Naming 87

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders? Take Netvibes , the pioneer in the personalized dashboard space, which has been written about a number of times here on ReadWriteWeb.

France 163

France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

Now, we have a well-calculated formula for launching businesses that are 100% bootstrapped with a very small amount of initial capital. In addition to tutoring for the times when they may need more hands-on help, I made it a part of my company’s mission to create and aggregate resources for students.

Entrepreneur 144

Entrepreneur Technical Review South Korea United States 144

Transformify

MARCH 9, 2017

B2B Content curation and B2B content aggregation are very powerful, and if used properly, can tremendously boost the outreach and secure new leads. Some of them like Verne Global also have a separate news section that aggregates industry news from selected trusted sources. HubSpot, IBM, Adobe, Moz, SemRush, etc.

Curation 40

Curation B2B Aggregator Lead Generation 40

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that? Bootstrapping comes a little bit later, where this idea of throwing your own money into the mix, making it happen yourself is important. How can you still validate your idea through that means? Does your whole audience disappear if you do that?

Small Business 60

Small Business Email Startup Aggregator 60

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. Again, remember, everyone was losing their job, no one was willing to invest and so we had to bootstrap Prezi in the beginning. Peter Arvai – cofounder of Prezi dreamed of being a particle physicist but working in a startup changed his career path.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Sweden 120

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We’re big on bootstrapping and we’re really good at identifying “Yes.” An example of that would be aggregating supply instead of building it. I’m lucky that I joined a CEO group a year and a half ago, almost two years now; It’s mostly bootstrapped companies there. Our next milestone is to get ourselves out of Texas.

Startup 48

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2013

By aggregating open datasets from across the web, Exversion allows you to find the usable data you need, which you can then instantly access, integrate and share via a single API. Exversion not only made it into the StartupBus finals at Rackspace , but hundreds have already requested invites to their private alpha.

New York 72

New York API Silicon Valley Aggregator 72

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. Bootstrapping 101. Steve Bennet. Yes, although I haven't examined any of these in detail. 7.5 - 10.5% in fees is a hefty transaction fee considering company will still have legal and other fees on the financing.

SEC 54

SEC San Jose Angel Investor Accredited Investor 54

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof. we today aggregate 30,000 conferences on the site. Hanover city in Germany for example, lives solely on conferences!

Aggregator 84

Aggregator Caching PHP 84

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A check-in aggregation platform. Bootstrapping 101. VoiceBase - Transcription and search of voice communications (presentations, conference calls, etc.) TuneUp - iTunes plug-in that cleans up your music library. FootFeed - The only Day 1 company on my list. Im anti check-in and have been a conscienious objector in the whole category.

Technical Review 38

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Residents are collaborating to start, finance and manage public works projects and proving they can bootstrap a better job themselves. The final question is what happens to our data when we die?

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Informly / Geckoboard or other aggregators. Of course I’m biased here but data aggregators or dashboards are awesome. Hi I’m @thedannorris , the broke bootstrapped founder of Informly , a dashboard of stats that you (yes you) can understand. Featured image credit.

Metrics 111

Metrics Analytics Aggregator Revenue 111

Up and Running

JULY 7, 2020

In the case of a bootstrapped startup, management time may not come into play right away but will be needed at some point as your business grows. Outsourcing brings another added benefit – you’ll be able to tap into their discounted shipping rates since they aggregate freight among many different customers. Management time.

eCommerce 99

eCommerce Cost Forecast Operations 99

Rob Go

JANUARY 16, 2013

At the time, I was thinking generally about the concept of aggregating demand for products and local services, and just hearing the word “Groupon” piqued my interest. Today, it was reported that Lynda raised $103M after bootstrapping itself to over $100M in revenue. Really impressive.

Seed Stage 38

Seed Stage Chicago Aggregator Bootstrapping 38

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). Bootstrapping 101.

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They measure average responsiveness and compute an aggregate statistic called Apdex which can be a good indicator of site health (at minimum, any significant changes to Apdex should be investigated, and they will email you alerts about such changes). Can't beat that in terms of bootstrapping.

Lean 41

Lean Baltimore Ruby Maryland 41

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Some started with funding and some were bootstrap. The value is in how to aggregate, curate, display relevant content, create participation around the conversation, and analyze how it drives real business metrics. Does this prove the “garage startup&# is a valid way to get off the ground?

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Curation Austin Cofounder Ruby 118

Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Bootstrapping because of competing priorities and limited resources. that Atlanta innovators are consuming – an aggregation of the things that have got the community thinking. Selling the new “thing” to decision makers. Proving concepts. Repeating success and communicating failure.

Atlanta 28

Atlanta Curation Raleigh Analytics 28

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7%

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. 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). How To Get There.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. aggregation. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. and they will instantly look pretty. Advasense Technologies. Advent Venture Partners. advertising.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Bootstrapping. – but some groups might react differently, and that’s not visible in the aggregate data. These varying reactions are not detected in the aggregated reports, and you may be disappointed because no significant uplift can be verified overall. At its core, it belongs to the resampling methods.

Distribution 48

Distribution Conversion Non-Compete Revenue 48

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

We have been in business as ONTRAPORT for 11 years, coming up on 12 here and yeah, growing very well, profitable, have been profitable for almost all of our history since 2009 with one year exception and growing bootstrap basically. We grow the business out of our own revenue the old-fashion way which has been challenging but wonderful also.

Software Review 35

Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software 35