Spencer Fry

JUNE 29, 2011

The Viral Strategy. We're all familiar with the idea of viral user acquisition: Your current users invite other users to use your service. Foursquare and similar viral success stories (Instagram, etc.) You want to be able to track how new viral users are coming into your system. Another issue is server growing pains.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

She and her team ran a successful Kickstarter campaign, went through the Techstars Boulder 2015 accelerator program, and recently closed a $3 million financing round with The Foundry Group. . We naively thought we would have a viral campaign, but it took us 4 months to create and cost us $25,000. Who’s invested?”

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program. What will you find here? Join the 2.3

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2017

The viral nature of it has been incredibly fruitful in building awareness and oftentimes conversion as well. HW: So far you’ve bootstrapped DSPTCH but we discussed how you periodically get approached by investors. Where have you invested energy for a brand presence and why? It is a hard, hard road.

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Marketing Design Acquisition Bootstrapping 48

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). But the enterprise software bootstrapping past was based on upfront license fees where the customer took the financing risk. So VCs will need to invest.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth. The third is high gross margins.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

It would be a hugely useful investment actually not just for vaccines but potentially creating bootstrapping an enormous amount of manufacturing capability for these new types of medicines that are currently very expensive to make because you don't have the scale to make them. Hannu Rajaniemi : Absolutely.

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