Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Michael, politely, says in an email: "I have done web analytics for five years, I have mastered Omniture, WebTrends and Google Analytics, I provide analysis and not just reporting. Every Web Analyst (or really Business Analyst) of any sort finds themselves at that critical point. I feel like am an Analytics God. Motivating them.

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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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The startup scene is relatively young, however, which is partly due to some pretty fundamental cultural barriers. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently.

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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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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2015

“They didn’t want them to just design web pages and page layouts they wanted administrative and secretarial skills as well, which I felt would demean the profession.”. This search took patience and required giving opportunities to various professionals that did not always work out, but she eventually cultivated the right team.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

In fact, any bootstrapped company should be aiming for slow, consistent growth rather than explosive growth. Don’t use company property or Internet, ever - Another clause in most employment agreements is that anything you do physically at work, or on software and equipment owned by the company (e.g. You don’t need funding.

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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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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Web Design. Web Development. Show search box. Search in: All. Navigation n Search. So You’re Going To Start A Huge New Web Project. Code clean. Everyone is happier when the code we interact with is clean and consistant. The web app Beanstalk does git repository hosting and deployment.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So I think the ideal customer is: SaaS, ISV, Web Products. ” But “Web Products” is neither a market nor a target customer. You don’t know what keywords they’re searching for. Today it would be near-impossible to bootstrap Smart Bear on those keywords. I bought ads for $0.05/click Tweet. -->.

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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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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Don’t forget to sign up for the wonderful Business of Software conference to hear Jason speak in person. So it’s property management software? Our software will do that. I don’t get this.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2017

Big data and cloud-based software have definitely helped level the playing field for businesses of all sizes. It’s important to note that just because the approaches to SEO are different, this doesn’t mean that small- and large-sized businesses can’t compete in search rankings together. In Search of SEO Success.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! 🔎 Search. Ben Gremillion ● CSS3 , Learn to Code , Make a Website. Not long ago designers who laid out web pages also had to plunge into myriad layers of nested tables, ferreting out that one misplaced or making the same tedious width change across many pages.

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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. Dan: Our goal is really to get beyond search social and the inefficiencies that search social and mobile have introduced to us. I think that we get lost in search and social. I bootstrapped it on my own.

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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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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. Are they doing well?

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The approach involves going to a source of (often public) data and finding out how many X’s there are in the world, where X is your target consumer…be it a barber shop, web design firm or male under the age of 34. Let’s hit the Google AdWords Keyword Tool and find out how many people are searching for our key marketing term.

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Marketing Software Review Matching Bootstrapping 64

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. This requires a visual web-editor (assuming you’re building a web-application). Personally I use Visual Web-Developer from Microsoft - it’s free and powerful.

Web 40

Web AJAX Software Review Development Team Review 40

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Jason: Okay, so that’s a very small company in which the CEO is pulling out the credit card for meeting software because even people with a hundred people, the CEO is not the person pulling out a credit card for the meeting software. I don’t care about what the software looks like yet. Edwin: I tend to disagree.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. Computer Software. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. Virtual Stock Exchange. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. América Latina. 中文-简体 (China). Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. Is Agile Marketing the Future of Search in 2013? Search Engine Watch – [link].

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Startup Advice: Lessons Learned from Building a Development Team View What links here Posted by Fan Bi on July 19th, 2009 Over the past few months, I’ve explored a bunch of different ways to develop a website without a web developer on the Blank Label team. On a bootstrapped budget free is great. Originally.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

Useful Glossaries For Web Designers and Developers – [link]. The State of Web Development 2010 – [link]. Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Black – A Representation of Style & Mystery – [link]. 20 Fabulous Photoshop Web Interface Tutorials – [link]. Logo Design Trends 2010 – [link].

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Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

It doesn't take much effort to send the copy to a few friends to review it before going live. Do some basic keyword analysis: Not every app is great for SEO, but if you think that people are searching with a problem you're solving, then you should do the keyword analysis and build your site's copy around it. Hammer home your message.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software. Here’s the deal: I work in the bootstrapped startup world and in this arena you don’t need $500k to build a product.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? The New MacBook Air Is That Good. Who knows.

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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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

And as I mentioned earlier, there was a huge context searching over head when we switched between your e-mail and the CRM. At Smart Bear we were selling a code review tool, and if you paid $600 for Perforce, it was very hard for me to charge $600 hundred for an add-on to Perforce that did code review. Jason: Woo.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone. Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! 8 – The Unsung Hero of Health.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 essential tools to get your new web-app off the ground – [link]. Why software startups decide to patent … or not – [link].

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters.

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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. This is a good review of the movie and both books. Blake Southwood Founder of LIghtning Storm Software. How Much Diligence is Due.

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Social Network Networking Software Review San Jose 28

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I tried to use facebooker in some pet project and all the commands that were explained on the web to use Facebooker wouldn’t work on Windows. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. How I started I tried Ruby on Rails a few months ago but my experience was very frustrating.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I tried to use facebooker in some pet project and all the commands that were explained on the web to use Facebooker wouldn’t work on Windows. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. How I started I tried Ruby on Rails a few months ago but my experience was very frustrating.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

It’s an India-based web design company. 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. We do already have somebody who’s emailed us. Should we use them?…

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