ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. You can test all those things, pay $500 on a Facebook campaign or Google advertising.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, we also have seen several examples of entrepreneurs who have successfully bootstrapped their e-commerce companies without any external financing until much later in the game. Vin proposes to build a restaurant search, reviews and ratings site for the Malaysian market catering both to tourists and locals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Hello Alice is a free, data-driven, and multichannel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while increasing owner success rates. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! 9:19] Is there an equity emphasis? [11:06]

Entrepreneur 79

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

India 114

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Crowd funding part 2: Creating a successful campaign – [link]. Here’s a review of crowdSPRING (by @clickfire ) from the perspective of the client & creatives – [link].

Social Media 94

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. The Old Spice Social Media Campaign by the Numbers – [link]. Tips on Effective Use of Crowdsourcing for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs – [link]. 5 Tips for Managing Your Company’s Brand on the Web – [link]. Good advice … How To Sell – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. The Old Spice Social Media Campaign by the Numbers – [link]. Tips on Effective Use of Crowdsourcing for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs – [link]. 5 Tips for Managing Your Company’s Brand on the Web – [link]. Good advice … How To Sell – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link]. Google: Now Using Online Merchant Reviews As Ranking Signal – [link]. 24 Email Newsletters Inspiration For Your Next Campaign – [link]. Two Campaigns, One Theme, Different Outcomes – [link]. Entrepreneurs Are Living The Dream, But Are They Happy? – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Not sure how long Old Spice can keep it up – but this is a BRILLIANT social media campaign – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link]. But I Just Wanted To Be Fair… – [link]. What’s the future of advertising?

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Not sure how long Old Spice can keep it up – but this is a BRILLIANT social media campaign – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link]. But I Just Wanted To Be Fair… – [link]. What’s the future of advertising?

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This post will give you 36 places where you can submit your startup for reviews, mentions or at least some backlinks. Initially the list got pretty big, but I weeded out websites where you need to be way bigger to get mentioned ( Mashable , Techcrunch and the like) or that charge money for a review. Killer Startups 2. Springwise 3.

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ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Our Technology Platform. Finding a Technical Co-Founder. Bootstrapping. Test shortlisted names using trial Google AdWords campaigns to see which names get the best click-throughs (the tactic is described in The Four Hour Work Week and on Marketing Experiments ). Ultra Light Startups®. What is an Ultra Light Startup?

Naming 45

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

Business Model 120

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. Make sure to use the latest automation and software technologies wherever makes sense. Bootstrapping or self-funding. Determining how much money to ask for.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2011

— of someone of my age and experience walking in here and demanding such outrageous compensation, someone who, let’s be clear, is technically too young to even enter into a legal consulting agreement in the first place. Maybe that means a big new advertising campaign, or hiring another WordPress expert for our staff.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

More About Jason Vandeboom: Connect with Jason on LinkedIn Visit ActiveCampaign Check out the Active Campaign Leap Year Extravaganza Like this show? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! [20:16] What’s on your bucket list in the next 5-10 years, outside of work? John (02:33): Yeah.

Chicago 49

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. That kind of growth is the promise that drives a lot of new founders to dive headfirst into SaaS projects.

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Bootstrapping Technical Review SEO Revenue 41

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Most people who bootstrap their business do it on their personal credit card and if yours are maxed out from the day you start your business you’re going nowhere fast. You also need to look at whether or not you need to update your technology skills prior to you leaving your corporate job. Then you’ve got to look at marketing.

Social Media 60

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Broadly speaking, this action plan is going to be broken up into three sections: the testing plan, the execution plan, and the review section. And, the very last section— the review section — is really just a list of milestones you create that prompt you to review and revise your plan. Your forecast would have been for nothing.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. The post The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping first appeared on Rob Walling - Serial Entrepreneur. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. That kind of growth is the promise that drives a lot of new founders to dive headfirst into SaaS projects.

Bootstrapping 27

Bootstrapping Technical Review SEO Revenue 27

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Their products are over-priced, buggy, lacking features, and every experience I've had with their tech support has been atrocious, but man their stuff looks and feels nice! Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? If you know the tech support guy is taking flack for a messy FAQ page, it’s “Organize your FAQ page in 15 minutes.” If you have only six FAQ entries, should you buy his tool?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. But in that one discussion, I talk about HR; I talk about inventory management; I talk about local marketing campaigns. Jason: Exactly. Jason: Yeah.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

In at least one case one of my portfolio companies was delayed an additional 4-6 weeks due to a typhoon that resulted in heavy flooding in Thailand, which impacted the factory that made a component of a component! Launch/Pre-order/Crowdfunding: Do you do a Kickstarter campaign for crowdfunding? Returns/Repairs: Stuff breaks.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several Given my background in the data-driven world of political campaigns, I know it’s all about the #s (you win or lose on Election Day given your win #?—?you Bootstrapping is AMAZING! So what happened? Yet, yet here we are.

Silicon Valley 54

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A special report from The Economist on Tech Startups. 21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. Three Long-Held Concepts Every Marketer Should Rethink | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/M5TsNZ. 12 inspiring marketing campaigns from Google | Econsultancy – crowdspring.co/1fn1hcw.

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Jonathan: Yeah, not every Kickstarter campaign is successful. That might be because the idea itself is bad, or maybe you just didn’t execute the campaign well enough to get enough people interested in the idea. How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that? That ink smell.

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Small Business Email Startup Aggregator 60

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. Web Design/Tech Services. Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. » More.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. [link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO?

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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. Could you leave an honest review on iTunes? We’re building some amazing stuff.

Software Review 36

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

There was also an opportunity to use technology to build a much more efficient business – one that could pass savings from those efficiencies onto borrowers. We were bootstrapping the company’s funding, so we could not afford to hire a firm to help us come up with a company name. Image Credit: Travis Good.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. ProofHQ – Online management and review of designs, artwork and documents. IFM Campaign Manager – A Web-based email list management and marketing tool.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

entrepreMusings

APRIL 20, 2014

Schoner was the founder of ThingMagic, LLC, a garage-grown RFID technology company led by a small group of MIT Media Lab graduates. Use your due date we check because you darlene treating ed turned down into of submitting it. In his new book, Schoner sheds light on the six core roles needed for a new tech start up.

Technical Review 62

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Technology Poverty – Every revolution has its downsides – those who miss out. Technology is bringing about a new form of poverty to those who don’t have equal access to it. The technology minimums are changing quickly. The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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