Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools – [link]. Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. Using “(client)&# when we (marketers) tweet – [link]. Weigh the legal & business risks – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. Using “(client)&# when we (marketers) tweet – [link]. Marketing lessons from the Grateful Dead – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Lebron decision was a PR fiasco – but this response from Cav owner is stupid – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Lebron decision was a PR fiasco – but this response from Cav owner is stupid – [link].

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics - SoCal CTO , March 11, 2010 Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. What is bootstrapping? So, what does it mean to bootstrap a company? Bootstrapping involves launching a business on a low budget. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! If your small business or startup sends email newsletters or other email marketing campaigns, what is the best time of day to send those emails? Here’s a summary – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Marketing Without Strategy is the Noise Before Failure – [link]. Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link]. Ad targeting doesn’t always work. – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). For example, when your company adds ano ther blade to its disposal razors , the product’s technical development, marketing and sales will follow relatively predictable paths.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Raise your first round of money, or bootstrap. You either do it on your own, taking all risks and responsibility yourself (“bootstrapping”), or you find investors that believe in your company. When I started hiring my first engineers, designers and marketers, I was mainly focused on passion, energy and most importantly potential.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

One of the first things to go, in most budgets, is marketing. After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience. Keeping this in mind, I launched a startup with virtually zero marketing budget.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2018

1- Finding traction in the market and changing lives. The real joy though is when you find traction in the market and customers are letting you know that your service, in our case a digital wealth management solution helping people better invest their money for retirement, is actually changing their lives for the better.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). Money Money Home Financing Taxes Accounting Basics Personal Finance Money Management Payments & Collections IPOs and DPOs Will Crazy Market Moves Kill IPOs and Slash VC Investment? Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. I asked him several times what exactly is his TAM (Total Available Market). 30 million market?

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Traindom Traindom Customer Login Sign Up Affiliates Support Information Marketing Conversations 36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage October 4th, 2010 § 45 Photo used under Creative Commons from theparadigmshifter So you have a new startup company and want some coverage. Väl värt besväret, om [.]

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

That creates a market where equity funding is top of mind. Are they happy with the marketing and branding? Do they want you to expand to other markets and geographies? It’s non-dilutive capital you don’t have to pay back, plus it tends to create a great PR opportunity. That’s one of the real cons of venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2014

Some of the primary reasons so many businesses have turned to it include: - Prove Market Demand: Determine whether a potential customer base exists before producing your product. Test Positioning: See what marketing messages resonate behind your product. But fulfillment becomes the real part of it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. 15 Free Bootstrap Admin Themes – crowdspring.co/1jB1FYK.

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ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

How To… Calculate Market Size. Startup PR. Bootstrapping. Test shortlisted names using trial Google AdWords campaigns to see which names get the best click-throughs (the tactic is described in The Four Hour Work Week and on Marketing Experiments ). May 14, 2012 – Event Recap. Company Directory. Past Events.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. Business/Marketer – Your business won’t go very far if no one on the team is good at talking about it. Find your forward and your point guard.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 10, 2017

Seriously, this is not an exaggeration I think people throw around the word “bootstrapped” too casually. I hate to break it to you, but raising 500K from a friends and family round is not being a bootstrapped startup. When you’re scraping together cash to get by, offering people money just isn’t an option.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Search engine optimization (SEO) can provide low cost opportunities for a startup to market its products and/or services. Startups – especially bootstrapped startups – typically don’t have funds to hire SEO experts and must find ways to execute SEO strategies on their own. Please leave them in the comments?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It endearingly represents the ingenuity and collaboration required to bootstrap a project. Most people can recall the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the immense ecological and economic damage that was done, and the PR nightmare that followed. With full musical numbers throughout, Begin Again has a really unique energy.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. 15 Best Bootstrap Design Tools – crowdspring.co/1ncKgIa.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Luke needed money to build his team, develop his technology, and start marketing his company, and so on. Always be a marketer. Rather, the best marketers win. That is, the entrepreneurs that are best able to market their companies to lenders and investors are the ones who raise the money.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

For a very simple reason: It’ll save you many thousands in getting your idea to market and real revenue quicker. Art of bootstrapping. PR – Getting on TV, radio and in newspapers (all of which I’ve done before – see [link] ). If you’re planning a Corporate Escape or are an early stage entrepreneur. What stuff are we covering?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2018

For example, if you’re looking to better understanding your market and what makes them tick, it may be a smart idea to try and find a data analyst to help you develop an algorithm that can help you better understand your audience. Payroll and benefits for are expensive, and even if your employees are also wearing many hats.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 My PR journey started with an amazing position with the renowned Jason Dady restaurant group in San Antonio, Texas. I was working full-time for Bread & Butter PR, but the balancing act of being a single mother and working full-time for someone else was too much.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2017

If a product fails to target a specific pain point, then it will not last for very long in a competitive market. Gaglers chat hoped to fix something that the market didn’t believe to be broken. building communities), Gaglers pivoted to a role that better aligned with current market trends. Why did it fail? How did it help?

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