crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. Coming from the financial world to the software world taught us a lot about bootstrapping and finding valuable outsourcing tools. This is how we found crowdSPRING to do some logo and website design work for us.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2018

Material Design for Bootstrap – World’s most popular framework for building responsive, mobile-first websites and apps. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting.

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ConversionXL

MAY 12, 2016

Thousands, if not millions, of people turn to website templates to make the design process more efficient. design items for sale. In general, templates are meant to serve the purpose of making 1) site design and launch possible and 2) using a design schema that users expect. That’s your job. Tweet It!].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding. Here’s a framework you can use to craft your email messaging: Forget contrived personalization; get right to the point: Use the first line of your email to present what your content is about. Let’s say you provide creative services to paid media specialists.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Next → A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks. Next → A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks. CSS frameworks have gone responsive, squeezing content into a spectrum of desktop and mobile browsers with varying degrees of success. Get 1 Month of Gold for Free! ($49 Learn More.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Frequency of buzzwords (programming languages, frameworks, OSes, software packages, etc.). Instead, they prefer problems that gradually build on themselves and open-ended design and architecture questions. Or I can create a new, actually useful JavaScript framework. Powered by Reverie Framework. News and World Report).

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

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. Why can’t you do design for me? We came together in 2010.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI is really designed to replace equity with a patient, flexible, long-term growth funding framework while factoring, MCAs and receivables financing are more of a short-term, working capital oriented set of solutions.” . The RBI investment model better aligns incentives between VCs and a founder who chooses to bootstrap.

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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 4: Telling the Story to Your Team…Defining Your Mission, Vision and Values, The Top-down Approach, The Bottom-Up Approach, The Hybrid Approach, Design a Lofty Mission Statement. Chapter 25: Meeting Routines…Lencioni’s Meeting Framework, Skip-Level Meetings, Running a Productive Offsite.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

And because mobile users are in such a hurry, it’s really important that you design your website in such a way that they have fast access to the most important content that matters to them. Use a Responsive Framework. A responsive framework will make your life – and your site visitors’ life – so much easier.

Mobile 40

Mobile Framework Bootstrapping eCommerce 40

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Gain valuable insights into the Miles framework, a strategic approach to identifying and leveraging your strengths. Through the Miles framework, they guide listeners to identify and leverage their unique strengths, turning constraints into creative opportunities. Should you bootstrap? You built the life that you're living now.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

If you’re technical and a savvy inventor, you could design a product that helps marijuana user process or ingest their medicine—think about all the fancy vape pens that have been coming out, or the rosin presses that easily extract solvent-free oil from bud or trim.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." Stopwaitin.com. We also discussed promotion and pricing strategy in some degree of detail.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

You designed it. Should you bootstrap? But if I'm out there listening, you know, what are some of the, what are just some of the places that you go looking, I know you have a framework you call the Miles framework. Mo you know, you learned that you know, what you got in life is what you deserved. Should you raise funding?

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

—– Earnest Capital invests in bootstrapped companies to help them unlock more growth. All Earnest investments are made using the Shared Earnings Agreement (SEAL) – a custom salary/profit share structure, aligned with how most bootstrapped founders are compensated.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

His descriptions of lean startup techniques and philosophies have had a big influence on the way I design and build software. There are several good unit testing frameworks for Rails, each with their own devotees. I'm a lighting audio and video designer. Can't beat that in terms of bootstrapping.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2010

He cofounded the popular web application framework company Ext JS (now Sencha) and now spends his days building products for iPhone and iPad. I bootstrapped my first “real&# company 3 years ago. I’ve bootstrapped every project I’ve ever founded, and have never felt the need to pursue external funding.

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Flash Elevator Pitch Bootstrapping Cofounder 77

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I know firsthand what it takes to bootstrap a business from the ground up. Given enough determination, it’s never too late to acquire the skills and the mindset you need to bootstrap a start-up. Rather, to bootstrap a business, you have to share the wealth in terms of money, perks, and credit for a job well done.

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Bootstrapping Framework Naming Entrepreneur 212

css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Web Design. Responsive design can help with this and is an awesome solution for a lot of sites. On a large project, you really need to develop a design system. That means re-usable parts and design patterns that help you build quickly and keep you consistant. This isnt just a design thing, its everything.

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Web Software Review Technical Review Caching 96

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

Eric Ries : And I hate to even bring this up, but just to dispense with the conspiracy theories that have been floating around, the fact that this is so well designed, seemingly, to penetrate human cells and to have these adverse consequences, this is not evidence that it was engineered in a lab? They are extremely well designed by evolution.

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Founder Technical Review Leadership Software Review 60

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

I’ve been an entrepreneur for the last five years, during which we’ve bootstrapped our innovation management software company Viima to a good number of happy customers, including some from the Global Fortune 500, and achieved a solid growth rate. The list just goes on.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy. The “encroachment&# of business or engineering on design is (theoretically) dependent on the driving force, rather than personal bias.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

I made a transition from working a day job, to starting an online business, then we started to double, and triple our income every year, really got to design the life that my wife and I, and members of our family wanted to live. How did you become a full-time writer? I’m a fan of hard work. You have a new book out.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs mistakenly often engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The more I did meditation practice and the more I studied, I really felt like there was some useful material there and some tools that I could use to relate to my own challenges or the difficulties in the world and give me a little bit of framework for making sense of it, I guess. Eric Ries : To our great shame. Sydney Gressel : Yeah.

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San Francisco Founder Community Software Review 68

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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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs often mistakenly engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

3d - developer, designer and distributor. But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due. It is interesting to see the emphasis that both Twitter and Quora have put on product design, not just engineering. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,).

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Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Color Scheme Designer. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). Customer service. Get Satisfaction. Eventbrite.

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