Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

It’s more possible to bootstrap today than a few years ago, as the cost of entry continues to go down. The key to successful bootstrapping is to master the do-it-yourself approach, defer compensation or barter services whenever possible and become a frugal minimalist in all things requiring a cash outlay.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Bootstrap was term coined from the computer lingo ‘booting’ which means starting a computer or starting a chain of processes which eventually starts up the operating system. In the startup world, bootstrapping essentially means funding your own venture and not being too dependent on external sources. Spend Wisely. Experiment.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Aline Lerner's Blog. Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. While interviewing such a wide cross section of people, I realized that I had a golden opportunity to test some of the prevalent folk wisdom about hiring. making technical recruiting suck less. Jun 21, 2013. Why any of this matters.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 26, 2011

On The Web , an e-commerce and online marketing blog. For other local bootstrapping resources here in Austin, check out the Bootstrap Austin site. Here are just a few tips on bootstrapping your new startup that I have found particularly beneficial from my own experience: Outsourcing. Barter and Trade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Hire experts, not help.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

If you can’t, you either won’t sell, or will need to hire someone to write for you. Master the art of bootstrapping: aim to “bootstrap” first. You should be learning all the time, from books, blogs, podcasts, seminars, conferences, even through people you meet. If you can write good copy, you can sell anything online.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

Here are some tips for bootstrapping your business. Maybe you’ll get better results from social media, review sites, or blogging. This beats purchasing your own expensive servers and hiring specialists to maintain them. It’s much easier when you don’t require lots of space or expensive equipment. Work in a Spare Room.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2012

But even entrepreneurs sometimes follow the “entrepreneurship playbook”, the conventional advice that can now be found everywhere, in books, blogs, newspapers and entrepreneur magazines. Bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap. His advice? Don’t innovate, imitate. Failure is not failure if you learn.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup. What is a startup? Seek help from a mentor or advisor.

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View from Seed

JULY 7, 2015

His company is a bootstrapped startup (for now, he says) that helps other software companies price their products based on what customers will actually pay — and essentially avoid leaving revenue on the table. In the episode, you’ll hear about how we got hired in the first place and why we decided to leave. Inside the Episode.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2015

How ironic that it seems like more than 90 percent of the online information on startups is about getting financed—but more than 90 percent of startups are bootstrapped. What does bootstrapping mean? ” See Also Should I Borrow Money, Seek Investment, or Bootstrap My Business? The bootstrapping founder takes all the risk.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

Days before the conference started, I was asked (and felt honored) to lead two workshops on bootstrapping vs. raising money. Having started and sold 3 successful bootstrapped businesses, and am now running 1 venture capital backed business ( Coach ), this is a topic I know a thing or two about. But that’s for another blog post.).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. 4 A/B Testing Mistakes That Can Kill Your Business – And How to Avoid Them | KISSMetrics Blog – [link]. 7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link].

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Create an Inc.com account: Home Magazine Blogs Ask Inc. 500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. Then, you may begin to promote your items on your blog and social media profiles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Today in Small Business: Hiring Picks Up | by @genemarks – crowdspring.co/1w5hoSn. crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1o6IY2w. Your Intuition is Wrong – A/B Testing Results that Surprised the Experts | VWO Blog – crowdspring.co/1w7uT47. The ultimate guide to Bootstrap | Webdesigner Depot – crowdspring.co/YTL8qt.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2011

Maybe not — after all the stated goal of WPEngine is to serve the “middle market&# — the folks who have outgrown free blogs, don’t like maintaining their own servers, but aren’t so large that they have extreme hosting demands. Should we take on those clients? That’s our profitable niche. So we think.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

According to Lee M Von Kraus, PHD and a mentor at Clarity.fm, “Early stage startups are usually pre-money startup that are bootstrapping the early development of a product.”. Either to go for investors pitch to them directly about your product, or keep yourself bootstrapped. Hiring more resources. Let’s learn that.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Seth’s Blog: The cycle of customers who care - [link]. The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Seth’s Blog: The cycle of customers who care - [link]. Seth’s Blog: Confusing lucky with good - [link].

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I was responsible for hiring the team, fundraising, establishing our Board of Directors and Advisors, and selling our initial clients. You need capital to hire sales people to capture your market quickly, or it is likely that someone else more aggressive will take the lead. Read my Lucky7 Bootstrap or VC?

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog. —– Earnest Capital invests in bootstrapped companies to help them unlock more growth. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. She seems to have good relationships in the blog and media world for the lifestyle products category, and I thought that she should first harness those before spending money on the performance marketing services like Linkshare. Doesn't Retek have anything in that product category?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

What about bootstrapping? Hire and surround yourself with people who are hungry for the opportunity and super driven,” she advises. ” The post Dragons, Bootstrapping and Women in Tech appeared first on Bplans Blog. ” Nelson says. Five useful tools and an entrepreneur’s workspace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Hire experts, not help.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Perhaps we can start with the phases of growth and compare with the Blitzscaling versions… OS1: The Family Stage As you might expect, this phase doesn’t subjectively feel that different between a bootstrapped tortoise and a blitzscale-intent startup. Tortoises can hire people who will grow with the company?—?and and they will.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

It’s part three of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. Raise your first round of money, or bootstrap. Learn how to hire and maintain your company culture. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Hiring of Kevin Rose by Google sends all the wrong signals to Silicon Valley – [link]. 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Manufacturers Are Hurting Themselves by the Way They Hire – [link].

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). I often get asked how I ended up becoming a venture capitalist. I’d say – very bluntly – “stay away from VCs.”

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Up and Running

AUGUST 27, 2020

Canny is 100% bootstrapped —we haven’t taken any outside funding. Here’s how we got started, and our lessons learned from growing a bootstrapped company. We also knew, as an engineer and designer pairing, we could build a software product without hiring for a while. You might not be able to hire right away. Takeaways: .

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

4 Things You Must Do to Hire the Perfect Candidate | [link] – [link]. 13 Resources to Design for Bootstrap | Vandelay Design Blog – [link]. 30+ Free Flat UI Icon Sets | Blog of Francesco Mugnai – [link]. Popular Design Trends for Responsive Navigation | Vandelay Design Blog – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2013

Write a blog post. Hire A Players. Become a Google analytics expert. Deliver a keynote. Build Links. Conduct customer interviews. Segment a market. Understand a term sheet. Recruit and Train. Train an intern. Replace B Players. Cold call C level executives. Write a novel. Raise Money. Build an advisory board.

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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

The people that hire you are taking you into their trust. If you do hire employees, they will also need these characteristics: Trustworthiness. Will you do everything yourself or hire employees? Not only will you lose money, but people looking to hire you might not think you offer a great service. What will your role be?

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow?   If the answer is relatively soon, then bootstrapping is a very serious consideration.    Even if it isn’t soon, early bootstrapping can reduce risk and increase chances for success, resulting in more aligned interests for entrepreneurs and investors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Latest @crowdSPRING creative newsletter: winning negotiations with clients, getting hired & more – [link]. The original post is in the Random Fun section below. – [link].

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Increasingly, seed rounds occur after some sort of pre-seed or at least some period of bootstrapping. And to do that, founders either spend way too much money on a third party dev shop, or hire a “lead engineer” that is capable, but not really a star.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This blog will discuss five such measures: self-funding, bootstrapping, government grants, crowdfunding, and investing. Bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is when you use existing assets to fund your business instead of taking out loans or seeking other forms of external financing. It’s not easy, but it is worth it.

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