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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." Toward that end, they have created two products.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. June 17th, 2012.

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Your Market is Smaller Than You Think

Software By Rob

Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. Bottom-Up There are many bottom-up approaches to sizing a market; I discuss the approach I use in my developer’s guide to launching a startup. Except not.

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Twitter Link Roundup #160 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. Revenue is the new black | Gigaom – [link]. Revenue Doesn’t Matter – [link]. IAB: US Interactive Ad Revenues Hit $9.3 33 Creative Global Warming Poster Designs for your inspiration – [link]. When is it Time to Pivot or Quit?

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Uncommon Interview: Bob Walsh, Digital Entrepreneur

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In the last interview Peldi Guilizzoni (Balsamiq Studios) gave detailed advice about how he earned almost a million dollars in revenue in his first year of operation. Q: Your book is clearly targeted at web-based software companies, and perhaps even more specifically at software developers. Podcast: Startup Success.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

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. Xing XING – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals.

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TEDx Bay Area Women, quick fire talks

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. President of The Tech Museum. Founder of JackCards.com. Senior (Health) Benefits Consultant. Check out the tweets here.