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. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses. Subscription Business Trends and Predictions for 2016.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. This is a radical departure from a traditional VC pitch. Get back up and running.

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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 You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. No revenue isn’t always a problem for venture-style businesses; no investors + no revenue = challenges for most founders without tremendous self-funding.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: The question is really directed towards the definition of Internet scale. 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. Dan: Jason, we’re certainly leaning more towards what you said. We’re building a product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Unfortunately, most decisions that confront startups lack a definitive right answer. And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

How many employees would a medium-sized business have in your definition? Some people have different definitions of that. I mean they have these definitions. Meetings are definitely one of those places, but email is another primary way that that comes in. Jason: Okay. I’m just clarifying. Edwin: Yes.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

Solving the equation of value and revenue for your SaaS product is not easy. If you are a bootstrapped DIY solopreneur, you should estimate your chances and think twice before choosing your VC-funded, 200-employees-strong competitor’s pricing strategy. It works well for the products where customers can clearly see the value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So I mentioned in the intro that you have customers in over 170 countries today, but you essentially were bootstrapped in the very beginning. Fuel your growth, boost revenue and save precious time by upgrading to active campaign today. Jason (21:22): Yeah, no, definitely check that out. John (02:33): Yeah.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2019

Bootstrapping. If you don’t have that cash injection at the start of your businesses life, then you need to be bootstrapping. A dictionary definition will tell you that it’s to get oneself into or out of a situation using existing resources. It’s strategic planning or Lean Business Planning.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Those who didn’t have a product or much of a product used a concierge model of sorts ala Lean Startup philosophy to start running their business. 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. But the execution is hard.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Those who didn’t have a product or much of a product used a concierge model of sorts ala Lean Startup philosophy to start running their business. 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. But the execution is hard.

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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. So these things exist, but making your luck also definitely exists. And that's what made us think about like how we can help people to gain that kind of self-awareness.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2018

So you’re essentially going live with it, and then you see what happens, and by doing it in this lean way hopefully you’re not spending exorbitant amounts of money or time or energy because what you want to do is you just want to put it out there and see what happens and test it out and see maybe what the business model can be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

We also talked about the future of Frontline Foods, which they believe lies in "expanding the definition of frontline" to include providing healthcare and other services for communities. I'm definitely scared about the places that are opening up their cities now. So there's this definitely a change for us.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

There are also different definitions of failure. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. start-ups fail, he says.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Later on, as the number of your satisfied subscribers grows, the creation of a long-term business with predictable revenue becomes possible. I bootstrapped Subbly by building an MVP (“minimum viable product”). I am a huge advocate for the lean way of starting and running a business. This is a mantra I live by.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These are the geniuses clogging up Craigslist’s “Computer Gigs&# with ads saying stuff like “Need iPhone Developer: Compensation: 30% of profits (when we get them)&# or “Ruby on Rails ROCKSTAR needed: $20/hr&# [link] Nils Noack Definitely a good read! Definitely looking forward to your next post. TechCrunch) [.]

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

All you’ve proven is that you can make $200 a month in revenue off of some basic websites. If you did that, now you’ve got something like one or $2,000 a month of revenue, proving that this is interesting. Jason: In revenue. Jared: That takes revenue that I don’t have yet. Let’s say they all do it.

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