Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. Vimagino.com. PowerStores.in.

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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. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. My guest today is Lloyed Lobo.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Small business and startup issues: choosing the wrong software – [link]. crowdSPRING SmallBiz Newsletter: new 1099 rules, biz plans, building software products – [link]. Small business and startup issues: choosing the wrong software – [link]. Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Not sure how long Old Spice can keep it up – but this is a BRILLIANT social media campaign – [link]. Making Sense of Color Codes – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link]. What’s the future of advertising?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Not sure how long Old Spice can keep it up – but this is a BRILLIANT social media campaign – [link]. Making Sense of Color Codes – [link]. Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link]. What’s the future of advertising?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. The Old Spice Social Media Campaign by the Numbers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 5 Tips for Managing Your Company’s Brand on the Web – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. The Old Spice Social Media Campaign by the Numbers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 5 Tips for Managing Your Company’s Brand on the Web – [link]. – [link].

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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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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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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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2011

As a maven of the Macintosh API and still willing to admit it, I landed lots of small contracting jobs fixing up code that other developers wouldn’t touch. These are folks with big requirements — tens of millions of monthly page-views, traffic spikes, custom code, perfect up-time, and 24/7 support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. From jewelry to dog food to SaaS (software as a service) products, startups are popping up in virtually every field around the world, despite the risks. Bootstrapping or self-funding.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

This is Sabrina Parsons, the CEO of Palo Alto Software. Most people who bootstrap their business do it on their personal credit card and if yours are maxed out from the day you start your business you’re going nowhere fast. We’re so happy to have Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” with us today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. More About Jason Vandeboom: Connect with Jason on LinkedIn Visit ActiveCampaign Check out the Active Campaign Leap Year Extravaganza Like this show? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! He's also a regular contributor to fast company in Forbes.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Computing and software came a few years later for me as access to computers wasn’t as easy or affordable. Software is awesome as it gives you instant gratification. It requires a higher level of discipline than software does. You make a change, compile, and voila you can see the effect of what you did.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? If you know the tech support guy is taking flack for a messy FAQ page, it’s “Organize your FAQ page in 15 minutes.” If you have only six FAQ entries, should you buy his tool?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. And Fri Davies from the Dynamite Circle has done this with his Magento add-ons.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started by building a stand-alone subscription software (SaaS) product.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. Jason: And to me, trying to replace someone’s to-do software or their actual organization software? Edwin: I tend to disagree. Jason: Okay.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Your First Product. And Fri Davies from the Dynamite Circle has done this with his Magento add-ons. Startups'

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding | The Next Web – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R. A special report from The Economist on Tech Startups. 21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. 4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several Given my background in the data-driven world of political campaigns, I know it’s all about the #s (you win or lose on Election Day given your win #?—?you Bootstrapping is AMAZING! So what happened? Yet, yet here we are.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

I’ve known Landon for about a dozen years and I’ve really watched the evolution of Landon and his buddy starting a company going out there trying to figure out how to sell it to now a hundred people in the campus in Santa Barbara with a piece of software that is really second to none in the marketing automation space.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Jonathan: Yeah, not every Kickstarter campaign is successful. That might be because the idea itself is bad, or maybe you just didn’t execute the campaign well enough to get enough people interested in the idea. How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that? That ink smell.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

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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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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? You know, a little context is that I've been working on hunger issues for 10 years in cooperation with the No Kid Hungry Campaign and several local leaders in that. A code is when somebody is having a life threatening acute problem. I am Eric Ries.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Campaign Monitor. Code Igniter.

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