Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. Test your channel and support strategy.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2017

HW: The last few years we’ve seen the rise of new brands using technology to own their supply chain, create direct relationships with their customers, manage their back office and so on. As far as where there’s further opportunity for technology in our business, I’m definitely looking forward to better ways to interact with customers.

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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. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started with a subscription SAAS model. all at once.

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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. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once. Or content marketing.

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Bootstrapping Technical Review SEO Revenue 36

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. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started with a subscription SAAS model. all at once.

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Bootstrapping Technical Review SEO Revenue 27

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

A description of the problem you’re solving for your customers, and your solution to the problem, which is usually your product or service. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

John Jantsch: Now, obviously nobody’s buying or if people are buying and saying it doesn’t work, that gives you the feedback you need, but do you have any ways that you intentionally stay close enough to customers to understand that? It’s your go-to-market strategy. Do you know the book I’m talking about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

In my experience with technical entrepreneurs, they work hard on creating an innovative and elegant solution, and assume that customers will flock to them (“if we build it, they will come”). The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment. Finalize your channel and marketing strategy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You have to be 1000% dedicated to the mission and the problem you’re trying to solve and always be customer focused, because it is a long ride. — She explains why they turned to Kickstarter and what happened with their campaign: We kept hearing from investors, “Who are your customers? Who’s invested?”

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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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. Aaron Wall, SEO Book Add a free feature which is accessible, useful, and spreads virally.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You have to be 1000% dedicated to the mission and the problem you’re trying to solve and always be customer focused, because it is a long ride. — She explains why they turned to Kickstarter and what happened with their campaign: We kept hearing from investors, “Who are your customers? Who’s invested?”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

And that’s when I created the Bootstrapping summit where I highlighted, where I documented the journey of 100 Bootstrap entrepreneurs, and that helped me get exposure to about 5,000 people, that is 5,000 subscribers, and was actually a lot more than 5,000. Abdo Riani: Exactly. I like this idea. Abdo Riani: Oh, a lot.

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