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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

Slack is looking to build the B2B version of Clubhouse (Slack Virtual Hallways). 31 employees according to Linkedin, but seems to be bootstrapped. Capuccino – an audio social network launched in July 2020 by French founders. Bootstrapped. Stereo , launched in 2020 and is based in LA. Open Source.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Cash is tight. I would definitely be interested any scholarship opportunities that might be made available.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. It details a landscape founders like me are excited to sink their teeth into? Of course not!

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

The first step in Customer Development was Customer Discovery ; extracting hypotheses from the business plan and getting the founders out of the building to test the hypotheses in front of customers. Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Just as a refresher.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Software. -