Hunter Walker

JANUARY 12, 2019

Insert one of the following: bootstrap from social graph, bootstrap from interest graph, bootstrap from what they’re currently listening to, etc etc etc. ” Inertia is too strong and companies like Spotify, which solve this via search, curation and personalization, are increasing their share of podcast market.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Contributors include dozens of TechStars mentors and founder alumni, including Dharmesh Shah the founder and CEO of HubSpot and the curator of the OnStartups blog and community. Will the company be self-funded and bootstrapped? Below is his chapter, Avoid Co-Founder Conflict. What are the financing plans for the company?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

Every day the curator of the site chooses a new web design to feature. Created in 2010 by a professional designer, this website curates only the best websites circulating the interwebs today. It’s inefficient to recreate the wheel, especially when bootstrapping your startup. Designinspiration.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. The site aggregates content but doesn't own it or try to copy it.

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Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

At the outset, you simply want to know all the potential sources of data (regardless of whether you’re able to gather them into a Customer Data Platform that curates “ a single source of truth “). The post Bootstrapping Relevance: Making Web Conversions Meaningful for Long Sales Cycles appeared first on CXL.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

Founded in 2010, MentorMob essentially curates and aggregates content such as YouTube videos, Wikipedia and About.com articles into intuitive, how-to courses or what they call “learning playlists” This makes it easy to find and learn a new skill, hobby or technique, say, salsa dancing, golf or a new language.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

I bootstrapped Subbly by building an MVP (“minimum viable product”). Each month, a subscriber receives a carefully curated package of products, without knowing what brands, nor which combination of items will arrive. Product curation and searching for products. But, with that said, you can always do more with less.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Some started with funding and some were bootstrap. The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place. The value is in how to aggregate, curate, display relevant content, create participation around the conversation, and analyze how it drives real business metrics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

He is the CEO of Rainmaker Digital, founder of Copyblogger, host of unemployable and curator of further. As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. Brian thanks for joining me.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

The company has bootstrapped using services, a philosophy we espouse heavily in 1M/1M, and has simultaneously gathered a group of angel investors who are supporting it through the next phase.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2012

Vikrant is running a bootstrapped publishing company, and is a 1M/1M premium member. Also, Titash Neogi from Pune, India, pitched Themeefy , a publishing platform for self-publishers that helps users create, curate and publish books, magazines, etc. Vikrant Mathur, CEO of iFood.tv discusses that at length in the blog post here.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

GuruStorms is a new brainstorming site that offers a unique crowdsourcing solution: a curated crowd of gurus that represent the world’s best and brightest online experts. GuruStorms has been completely bootstrapped thus far. MobileRoadie won the category, but being a finalist should help the company’s visibility.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

A good buddy of mine started a new kind of curated newsletter, Atlanta Stacks , and I wanted to a) figure out why he created it and b) spread the word, because I think it’s terrific. Bootstrapping because of competing priorities and limited resources. It’s the curators man. Who are you and what do you do? Proving concepts.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

My good friends and I, all aged 21, were working on a design inspiration blog and curating content for designers and artists. The capital earned in the agency was used to bootstrap the progression of the key business we wanted to launch. When you are bootstrapping cash flow is king. It must be managed carefully.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The program helps boost sales through its customer engagement tools (video content, dedicated storefront, editorial curation), merchandising, and strategic support. AWS Activate Founders Package – AWS has designed a new set of benefits specifically for bootstrapped startups with no institutional funding.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. What will Facebook do to things? There are a lot of good ideas that are held back by clunky interfaces or the lack of understanding of how and why people want to interact with a lot of these services to begin with.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Bootstrapping a community from zero users. An overview of interactive design patterns for online social interaction. What works and what doesn't. Paving the cowpaths" Visual design that complements interactive design. Launch of a social site. Getting over the "sign-up hurdle". RSVP: [link] 3PM Whole Foods Market presents: Afternoon Snack.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

I bootstrapped it on my own. You’ve bootstrapped a company, so you can see all those things, and you’re skeptical of the VC side. Meaning I’ve got a direct relationship with my customers and I send them daily curated things that I know they’re going to enjoy and like or that they have self- selected.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link]. How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link]. How To Redesign Your Homepage: A Bootstrapped Process – [link]. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay – [link]. The Steps of Creative Communication – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 88

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Bootstrapped companies have no such luxury. Salesforce is one of the greatest, smartest curators of their ecosystem. is still around at least, but wisely pivoted into matching celebrities (like Mandy Moore) with major brands (like NBC). They "survived.".

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

If an instance dies for any reason, the ASG automatically creates a replacement instance and the Netflix tooling manages bootstrap replacement of that node in the Cassandra cluster. EC2 automatically creates the instances in each availability zone and maintains them at the set level.

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EC2 Caching Software Review Java 68

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Residents are collaborating to start, finance and manage public works projects and proving they can bootstrap a better job themselves. The Man on the Boon store is a curated store where the founder only stocks stuff he would buy or own. They are now reclaiming their cities and circumventing the planning doctrine.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

7 Best Alternatives to Bootstrap crowdspring.co/1Lc9obb. Top 3 Apps for Content Curation crowdspring.co/1Le1oHZ. Why our brains so easily relate to conceptual maps | My Design Shop crowdspring.co/1L1UlhR. Fascinating UI Kits for Mobile App Designers crowdspring.co/1LxpopD. App Smart | Geography Made Easy nytimes.com/video/technolo….

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