Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. These terms refer to a class of professional investors who invest their own money, like angels, but have the larger resources and scope of venture capitalists with other people’s money. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Download our free Startup Checklist and review the complete guide for starting a small business. While you may be enamored with becoming an entrepreneur and bootstrapping your business, don’t quit your day job. According to a report from the Harvard Business Review , entrepreneurs who plan are 16% more likely to achieve viability.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 14, 2019

Bootstrapping going by the author of the Ulysses, James Joyce implies forcing your way to the top from the lowest of ranks by the aid of your bootstraps. Bootstrapping is a common way to fund a prospect. These are family and friends that help with your startup bootstrapping. 4. Plan ahead. Private borrowing.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

It’s looking equally good for the bootstrapped and indie-funded marketplaces too. The rise of no-code and low-code tools means it’s never been easier to set up and build an online business. You’ll get quicker and quicker each time you do it, and soon your reputation will precede you due to pent-up demand from buyers and sellers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I now has 350+ customers who spend between $6k to $17k a year to use their software, depending on the size of the company. Their growth since their MVP release in 2016?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort. Focus on collecting customer references.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Startups die due to a variety of causes. In early 2011, I wrote a post, Startups: Not for the faint of heart , that discussed Parse.ly’s survival through a one-year bootstrapping period after Dreamit Ventures Philly ’09. But it’s a cliche that refers to an underlying truth. Post Mortems.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I now has 350+ customers who spend between $6k to $17k a year to use their software, depending on the size of the company. Their growth since their MVP release in 2016?

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. [link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

How to Make Better Reference Calls - crowdspring.co/1e9bls4. Here’s the Data | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1lLgAjK. Re/code - crowdspring.co/1embSqM. How to Make Better Reference Calls - crowdspring.co/1e9bls4. Showcase of Useful Bootstrap Tools For Web Developers - crowdspring.co/1kY1Qey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

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. But when we talk about “lean,” we’re referring to the processes a company can use, when developing a new product or service, to learn quickly about the questions it has.

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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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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

Diligence, or the ability to get a job done. Sometimes this is referred to as figuring out your unique selling proposition, or USP. At Palo Alto Software, we use a lean planning process to determine whether or not an idea is likely to succeed or to fail. Let’s review them: Bootstrap your business with a side business.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Next Igor Protsenko presented Profitero , an enterprise software product for helping retailers with price comparison and optimization.

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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. Furthermore, he explains six common traits, referred to as “CAMPER” – Connection, Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose, Energy, and Recognition – which are crucial for building thriving and sustainable communities.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Telesales simply don't work without reference customers.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We also made sure to look at the financial profile of other Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. If we couldn’t sell our first product for that, which was Bazaarvoice Ratings & Reviews, then it probably wasn’t worth selling in the first place because we could have never built into a SaaS company that had a viable financial profile.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

of businesses are actively seeking & collecting customer reviews on an ongoing basis. According to an article in Econsultancy , when a site has customer reviews, 63% of visitors are more likely to make a purchase & reviews produce an average of 18% uplift in sales. million customer reviews. image source.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. I bootstrapped it on my own. You’ve bootstrapped a company, so you can see all those things, and you’re skeptical of the VC side. You need traction is code word for no. Trying to learn this environment.

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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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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

For example, Palo Alto Software focuses primarily on helping small businesses realize their dreams of starting a business. Many people reading this guide will already have an idea of what that is – perhaps a tutoring agency, or a restaurant, or a software company. Week 1 – Get the ball rolling.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, eLance has experienced similar problems, and I asked David to concentrate on communicating to his user base of service providers the value of building a reputation through references and reviews/customer feedback. She is also considering developing software to address these issues.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I’m a very risk adverse entrepreneur as a result of bootstrapping my first three businesses, almost failing on the fourth (Coremetrics) due to market timing (I was too early and didn’t predict the dot-com bust) and its overcapitalization, and being a mostly customer funded and very capital efficient on the fifth (Bazaarvoice).

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

To summarize My coding capabilities are almost non-existent, we don’t have an in-house expertise, we don’t have the money to pay for a developer, and have struggled to bring developers on board. When you’re on a bootstrap budget, anything is tough, but this turned out to be especially taxing. Originally.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Due diligence: An Entrepreneurs Perspective » October 19, 2006. We tried to buy some software recently that the vendor wanted to price on the basis of third party uses, a category of activity uncontrolled by us. People bought the software but grumbled about the pricing idea. Thinking about pricing.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. both in the “picks and shovels” space of digital retail with very compelling software solutions. make that fourteen years now).

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

While the flick has gotten rave critical reviews (93% on Flixster), the question of what percentage of the movie is true has also gotten a lot of discussion in the blogosphere. Co-founder Dustin Moscovitz is referred to as a programmer, but he is actually an operations guy. This is a good review of the movie and both books.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Code clean. Everyone is happier when the code we interact with is clean and consistant. Beyond the obvious advantages of keeping code in sync and tracking changes, it gives the whole team the ability to see what everyone else is working on by looking at commits. Do not forget the database and software design. Try SMACSS.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This post will give you 36 places where you can submit your startup for reviews, mentions or at least some backlinks. Initially the list got pretty big, but I weeded out websites where you need to be way bigger to get mentioned ( Mashable , Techcrunch and the like) or that charge money for a review. Killer Startups 2. Springwise 3.

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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. Invoice Place – Online billing software that lets you track invoices, quotes, receipts and more. Gliffy gliffy – Online diagramming and charting software.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that? Bootstrapping comes a little bit later, where this idea of throwing your own money into the mix, making it happen yourself is important. Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. That ink smell.

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