VC Cafe
MAY 4, 2021
The early buzz of Clubhouse (despite being invite-only and iOS having a total reach of about 2 million users) along with the rising popularity of podcasts has shown that consumers crave social audio interactions and that there’s plenty of room for innovation in the space. Riffr calls itself a social micro podcasting app.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 14, 2014
The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers, or a mobile smartphone app. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.
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Sophia Perl of Wisdom
MAY 14, 2010
Over at HackerDojo , I attended a womens panel on “Mobile Paradigm&# organized by Asian Professional Women in Technology. The panel consisted of a CEO of a travel guide app for the iPad, a bootstrap developer of many iPhone apps and an iPad app, and a marketing person from a Shazam-competitor app.
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. ProfessorVC. Steve Bennet.
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.
Diego Basch
JULY 12, 2019
Then social networks, and finally mobile computing. Either you will bootstrap the business or you will partner with someone local to fund it, because VCs won’t give you the time of the day. Obviously in hindsight it was a good call. Sure, machine learning is advancing every day.
Up and Running
JULY 10, 2017
This type of freemium is quite popular with computer games as well as mobile apps we come across daily. Think of the various mobile apps where they show you half-screen ads with an option to pay for using it ads-free, or freemium marketing products that offer a free trial of their premium product. Free with in-app purchase.
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