ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Bootstrapping. I always recommend that you start with bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is when you put your own money or borrow from friends and family to set up your business. Sources of funding. ? Seed stage.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. After viewing your slide deck, if investors are still interested in your startup, they will ask for a deep-dive meeting to drill in on any hard questions before commencing due diligence. Deep-dive meeting. Sweat equity.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. That's what you sound like when you claim that getting a software patent will protect you from competition. Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. Except in certain industries (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2023

For example, most people believe that Bill Gates started with a simple purchase of a base operating system leading to MS-DOS and Microsoft, but Mars points out that Bill spent thousands of hours in some computer rooms working on software day and night. Know yourself and find help to fill in the gaps. Start today building a bigger network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Most employers, due to fear of lawsuits, will only confirm employment data and give you positive feedback over the phone.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. She’s a voice for inclusion especially to coding communities specifically, and general hustle toward what you want.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. The Exit Disconnect - Ask the Angels , March 25, 2010 I’ll admit to having a bias towards exits and focus my review of a potential investment on the exit potential. There are MANY of them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

It’s really fun to see this kind of success and these stories are out there and everywhere if you look – no, they don’t always make the nightly news because it’s pretty much a bootstrapped, do the work, grow consistently kind of success – the best kind. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is the new book by David Cohen , founder and CEO of TechStars, and Brad Feld , managing director of Foundry Group. Below is his chapter, Avoid Co-Founder Conflict. A perennial favorite is to decide that each founder should own an equal share. Can any of us be fired?

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

So I thought I’d jot down some of the highlights I have seen from my vantage point in this 2011 Boston Consumer Web Year in Review. Still led by its founder, Steve Kaufer. Zipcar: Ok, not exactly consumer web/software, but a great consumer tech company nonetheless. IPO’s/Exits. market cap. Carbonite: Raised $62.5M

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. ” The competition did more than educate and put money in the bank for this otherwise bootstrapped startup.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Bootstrapping 101. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. How Much Diligence is Due.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

4- Due to lack representation in the skincare industry. Reflecting on why I dared to take the risk is probably due to having no commitments elsewhere (no family, no mortgage, no huge fixed cost base), so if I ever wanted to test my luck and skills building a larger business, then the timing was perfect. Photo Credit: Olamide Olowe.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Rule 1: Bootstrap until you have a viable product. Currently, most ecommerce businesses have IT staff constantly running manual tests to confirm that their site is operating properly, or they manually create expensive software to run these tests. His first capital raise was a $2.75

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

I talked to Adam Hempenstall, founder and CEO at BetterProposals , who has been using freemium for three years for his SaaS product: “Honestly, I think it was a mistake. We run into this kind of software services every day—Google, Youtube, Instagram, and so on. Duolingo lingot store. Free with ads.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! He is the co-founder of Boast.ai

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. 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. Maybe you’ve got technical advice for getting the most out of A/B testing on software projects.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. In this case, they could build and service it but they needed a third co-founder to sell it. We also made sure to look at the financial profile of other Software as a Service (SaaS) companies.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

Due to automation and other technological advances, many jobs that existed just a decade ago are gone forever. It’s easier to bootstrap. Bootstrapping your business , which involves self-funding everything as you go along, without resorting to raising money from anywhere else, keeps you in complete control of your company.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

  He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about.     We worked all day building market strategies for customers while we tried to embody our expertise on software that would expand the company's reach.  Starting Startups.   Amen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. That’s why investors acknowledge that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one focusing on the technical solution, and the other focusing on defining and building the business model.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 13, 2010

Our goal is to help non-venture-backed, bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs. That’s why we’ve made it out mission to provide practical information based on our real-life experience as software/web entrepreneurs (20+ years between the two of us), as well as the entrepreneurs we work with in the Micropreneur Academy.

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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

You will also find information provided by two people currently involved in the industry: Matthew Mercuri, Digital Marketing Manager at Dupray, and Simon Brooks, the founder of Squiffy Clean. Diligence, or the ability to get a job done. Let’s review them: Bootstrap your business with a side business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. That’s why investors acknowledge that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one focusing on the technical solution, and the other focusing on defining and building the business model.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. We further leverage mailchimp (eblasts), wordpress (website), hootesuite (social media messaging), review sites such as Yelp! So, the right reservation + POS software solutions have been hard to find. How did it all begin? MC: Oh wow.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. We further leverage mailchimp (eblasts), wordpress (website), hootesuite (social media messaging), review sites such as Yelp! So, the right reservation + POS software solutions have been hard to find. How did it all begin? MC: Oh wow.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. First up, Adrian Montero from Belen, Heredia, Costa Rica, presented FinqIt.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

My co-founder, Jason Novek, and I got into Y Combinator when there were 27 total companies in the batch and only four YC partners in existence. The product was simple, and didn’t work every time, but after three months we had several newspapers cranking and it was enough to let my now co-founder quit his job in the “real world.”

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense).

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. I’m the CEO of Palo Alto Software. A lot of people have asked about the software. ” You’re reviewing this each month. This is Sabrina.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders?

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. These days revenue is the best source of capital.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense).

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