Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Yet, investors and analysts demand it. Is it cheaper for them to design and experiment with their own technology from scratch, or to acquire something existing and proven? Whether a brand new bootstrapped startup or corporate giant, your altitude, sustainability, and traction has everything to do with your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ? It’s absolutely beautiful and a stunning example of what you can do with the SimpleGeo API.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. The site I co-founded, DesignCrowd.com, grew from a garage office to a thriving marketplace with 148,000 designers, and businesses who have created $12 million worth of jobs, in just a few years by applying these ideas.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

For those that are familiar with Studio Press, it was pretty much the industry standard for word press things for many, many years powered by the [Janis 00:01:44] framework, which is our design framework that makes word press more powerful and easier to use. We got to thousands of customers and millions in recurring revenue.

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Gust

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Or is it still possible to bootstrap and build a company organically? But this just illustrates the point that all sorts of businesses built on personal expertise – design skills, niche knowledge, industry relationships, etc. A gigantic percentage of startup literature concerns how to raise capital.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

IM Creator is gaining speed on its Israeli competitor Wix.com to become a leading WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web design website. Here is a 60-second tour of IM Creator: IM Creator is bootstrapped with $250k from the founder Jonathan Saragossi, and a few unknown angel investors. mo or $5.95/mo Squarespace – raised $38.5

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Two-and-a-half months ago Einar Vollset and I announced TinySeed , the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding.

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Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 5, 2015

VC backed startups, by design, are on a different timeline with a different measure of success for all involved. My partner Tim bootstrapped his business to 9 figures in revenue without taking any outside investment. is designed to test whether that sense we have is real. And revenue better still. .

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If the answer to the question centers around “We will achieve revenue soon so our net will improve and give us more runway,” it means the company is in trouble because no product ever ships on time nor achieves the company’s “conservative forecast.” These days revenue is the best source of capital. Who is on your board of directors?

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2015

Every entrepreneur has heard of the Lean Startup methodology ; it’s a great way to prove demand with less time and money and to prevent building a product that no one will want. You’ll also want to customize your look through WordPress themes or graphic design. Breakeven = Revenues – Variable Costs – Fixed Costs = 0.

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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. It was a way for us to stay creative and it also brought in some revenue. The capital earned in the agency was used to bootstrap the progression of the key business we wanted to launch.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Is your business idea focused mainly on product promotion, or the service through careful experience design? Simple: through the package’s shape and design, but also through explanations and the product arrangement and choice. I bootstrapped Subbly by building an MVP (“minimum viable product”). Convenience. Usefulness.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Industrial Design: Design matters. Especially if you’re building a consumer hardware product; as consumer expectations have been shaped by companies like Apple and that’s the level of design and attention to detail consumers have come to expect. Sourcing: Ah, sourcing. The same applies for packaging as well.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

By the time I graduated, we were doing a couple hundred thousand dollars a year in revenue. I bootstrapped that business for 10 years before selling it. Design thinking? This is a degree designed for working professionals to take on top of their other responsibilities. It was the beginnings of a scalable business.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 Our mission is to help design lovers buy and sell chic furnishings in a beautiful, easy-to-use and super fun marketplace. As I did not have a money cushion I worked for almost a year putting in work during all my lunch breaks and before and after my demanding job.

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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.) Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Get back up and running.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A new system might be subject to delays, especially if demand from other breweries is high, but you’ll be able to design to your needs and specifications, and you’ll have support when issues arise (and they will). Friends and family are the most common backers, and many startups bootstrap. Metrics: Know your numbers.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Bootstrapping your business. If you aren’t familiar with the term, bootstrapping, also known as “self-funding,” refers to the various methods entrepreneurs can use to fund their startups beyond funding sources like small business loans. Using a side business to bootstrap your startup. Let’s begin.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Shopping Cart Values / Revenue Per Visitor. Revenue per visitor is another common eCommere KPI, and it’s especially important with certain hypotheses. For example, optimizing product recommendations on the product page (design, placement, algorithm) does not necessarily lead to people buying anything at all.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Jared: Yeah, I think initially the real focus of Padseeker is going to be an on-demand solution to create a website for property management. Jason: I don’t know what “on-demand solution” means. All you’ve proven is that you can make $200 a month in revenue off of some basic websites. Jason: In revenue.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

A new system might be subject to delays, especially if demand from other breweries is high, but you’ll be able to design to your needs and specifications, and you’ll have support when issues arise (and they will). Friends and family are the most common backers, and many startups bootstrap. Metrics: Know your numbers.

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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. SlideRocket – Design professional quality presentations and then deliver them in person or over the Web.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them. Programmers feel exploited when they build out a product that is successful but are reluctant to admit they wouldn’t have been able to design the product themselves.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Enigmai’s flagship product, Enigmai Business Suite (EBS) is a web based application generically designed for for dynamic working environments that need to manage many employees such as hospitals, restaurants, hotels, schools and manufacturing companies. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. How much do you charge?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Enigmai’s flagship product, Enigmai Business Suite (EBS) is a web based application generically designed for for dynamic working environments that need to manage many employees such as hospitals, restaurants, hotels, schools and manufacturing companies. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. How much do you charge?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

They threw a pizza party that first night, they've now raised millions of dollars and have thrown hundreds of thousands more, not just in support of frontline workers, but in support of restaurants who, as everyone knows, are struggling in these times with a dramatic decline in revenue, in customers. So Frontline Foods is a genuine win-win.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. What I do like is the coming up with the idea and mapping out the development part. I love your posts Derek, you really GIVE. Insightful.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

3d - developer, designer and distributor. You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due.

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