ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

It’s one of the reasons sites like Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc and Forbes spend a large majority of their content creation time filled with stories of startups, new companies and “the next big thing.” We found most unfunded or under-funded startups unable to compete with larger budgets, backed by some of the most prolific venture capitalists.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. 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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

Q: You’ve stated that the goal of both your new book ( Web Startup Success Guide ) and your new tool for entrepreneurs ( StartupToDo ) is to double an entrepreneur's chance at success: Increase from 10% to 20%. Here’s the third: Few startups (let alone Digital Entrepreneurs) have more money than time. Zappos) matter far more.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". The software is good — don't get me wrong — but what sets Peldi (the founder) apart isn't prescient feature selection or bug-free releases, it's his startling transparency.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. I couldn’t believe how inefficient and non-transparent the rental industry was and I knew then that I’d one day come back to take it on.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

10 things entrepreneurs can learn from chefs – [link]. What It’s Like To Be An Entrepreneur – Eboo Patel – [link]. It’s no secret that visitor data measured by Alexa, Compete and others is flat our wrong – [link]. 40 Effectively Designed Non-Profit and Charity Web Sites – [link].

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. What I’ve found during the last year of running the Micropreneur Academy is that once you’ve seen hundreds of websites and run fifty A/B tests you develop a sixth sense about how a site can be improved. Any non-personal website will work.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Why An MBA Could Kill Your Chance To Become A Great Tech Entrepreneur – [link]. Idiocy and brilliance of American policy toward entrepreneurs – [link]. Interesting perspective on why New York City could never compete in tech – [link]. Rethinking “F@#$ You Money” – [link].

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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.

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Software By Rob

JULY 22, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. 2 Rob on 10.19.10

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value. So What is Customer Development?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing – crowdspring.co/1jqLtKQ. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Even if coal were free to burn, power stations couldn’t compete – crowdspring.co/1qp2jZ8. Solar has won.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 13, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Our goal is to help non-venture-backed, bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs. I subscribe to about 20 startup podcasts in iTunes, and about 10% of them provide real, practical advice from experienced entrepreneurs. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Photo by John McNab Popular musicians possess entrepreneurial qualities, most often the passion and drive we see in successful startup entrepreneurs. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. In a traditional business this means offering non-commodity products and services. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Software By Rob

JULY 20, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. .

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. Having been on the developer side of the coin a number of times, here is my take.&# December 23rd, 2008 | About this Blog , Micropreneurship , Software Development , Startups Building your startup?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The Differentiators The areas that kill the most time when consuming open source software are: Installation process Documentation Support Usability I’m sure we can all point out a handful of open source projects that have decent documentation and decent usability.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 21, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. 9 Chris Pearce on 05.02.10

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. The Gladwell Effect Every entrepreneur has read at least one book in the “ Gladwell / Godin &# genre.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. October 29th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Software Development Building your startup? Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. At the time of this writing he’s at 460 responses.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Early stage entrepreneurs will also still likely value experienced advice on company-building from seasoned venture capitalists. Entrepreneurs who embark on ICOs may similarly want to be careful before empowering their community of supporters too early. But many are. Fuzzy Governance. Seeking Liquidity.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Early stage entrepreneurs will also still likely value experienced advice on company-building from seasoned venture capitalists. Entrepreneurs who embark on ICOs may similarly want to be careful before empowering their community of supporters too early. But many are. Fuzzy Governance. Seeking Liquidity.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I’ve heard for years about the importance of finding a market before building a software product. Even someone you may not have heard of like Stephane Grenier makes a good living with a real software product that fills a market’s need.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value. So What is Customer Development?

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. Successful entrepreneurs have a bias toward action, as illustrated in Tom and Huck. infoChachkie. Thanks for visiting!

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This episode’s Micropreneur is Ruben Gamez who recently launched online design proposal software Bidsketch. == Rob: Thanks for your time today, Ruben. Ruben: A couple of things: The amount of time I’ve spent on non-development activities throughout this whole thing.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The roadblock that so many entrepreneurs encounter as they try to launch is thinking they, or one of their co-founders, has to perform every task necessary to get their product out the door. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. . #10

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. A business geek with no money and no income isnt going to inspire confidence in a software geek.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Here’s a typical situation that goes awry: An entrepreneur has an idea for something online and after talking to a few friends who like it, decides to try to turn the idea into a business. Look at the market size and the number of competing products. This is where it starts to fall apart. At this point, everyone loses.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

trav (2010-06-19) # This is GPS for would-be web entrepreneurs lost in a sea of ideas with no sailors to steer their imaginary ship. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer.

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