ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We’re a bootstrapped company that started with more time than money. At the eight minute mark, YouTube allows for creators to put extra ads in the content so they’ve got an incentive to show those longer videos and generate more ad revenue. If too many people do it, however, your cost per ad will be higher. Conclusion.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

You’re not going to go viral Dropbox style, so having a freemium model doesn’t really work. Let’s take a look at the benefits now: Freemium customers could be a great source of virality. Solving the equation of value and revenue for your SaaS product is not easy. Let’s face it—everyone likes free stuff. 1 freemium.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

The challenge is to convince investors that your business will attract real customers, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses. Even if you are funding the project yourself (bootstrapping), you should be asking yourself the same question before you have burned all your resources.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. I know nothing about viral marketing. So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. I know nothing about viral marketing. So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. The software was sold based on installation cost running on local servers for enterprises—which was very, very expensive. Domain Names and Trademark Law.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. It then crunches those numbers together with an expected conversion rate and expected price to give you an idea of expected monthly revenue.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

We naively thought we would have a viral campaign, but it took us 4 months to create and cost us $25,000. I thought all of these are raising $5 million, $10 million, $15 million pre-revenue. How do you have proof that they’ll pay for this?” By the end of the 45-day campaign, we had 1,200 pre-orders.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value). Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. Ads can also be cost-per-click or cost-per-action ads. This is obvious. Marketing first.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value). Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. Ads can also be cost-per-click or cost-per-action ads. This is obvious. Marketing first.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Should you bootstrap? Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. It's really popular on Good Reads, it's on YouTube, it a lot viral videos on YouTube's took, summarizing it. Should you raise funding? Who should you partner with?

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Spencer Fry

JUNE 29, 2011

You may see a lot of signups by a certain type of user, but that cohort may bring in only half the revenue of another cohort that may provide fewer total signups. The Viral Strategy. We're all familiar with the idea of viral user acquisition: Your current users invite other users to use your service. Everyone loves free stuff.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

We naively thought we would have a viral campaign, but it took us 4 months to create and cost us $25,000. I thought all of these are raising $5 million, $10 million, $15 million pre-revenue. How do you have proof that they’ll pay for this?” By the end of the 45-day campaign, we had 1,200 pre-orders.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive. SaaS reduces your sales cost but also means that VC is needed.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

I received the following question from a reader: I was wondering if you had any thoughts on cost of customer acquisition for freemium businesses. I’ll admit up front: I’m not a fan of using freemium in a bootstrapped business. This lowers your cost of acquisition to such a level that you can turn a profit eventually.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

High infrastructure companies Traditionally, software investors have loved being in the software industry because the capital costs are low and also because you can get something into the market quickly. Do you have virality built into the product? In the beginning, this may not be a problem — you can bootstrap.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Tactile CRM – A cost-effective CRM that tracks sales, deals, emails and customer contacts.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity.

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