Bootstrapping Demand Partner Sales Cycle 
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Price is not an exercise in maximizing some micro-economic supply/demand curve, slapped post-facto onto the product. Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). Sales cycles matter though. HOWEVER, the length of a sales cycle is a strong consideration for most repeat successful founders. 2) B2B startups have high margins.
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Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). Sales cycles matter though. HOWEVER, the length of a sales cycle is a strong consideration for most repeat successful founders. 2) B2B startups have high margins.
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). So if you are techie, find a founding partner that is a hustler. If you are hustler, find a superb techie as founding partner. So VCs will need to invest.
mashable.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
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