Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

New York City 246

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 246

VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

App Store Fees: For consumer AI applications distributed through mobile app stores, the fees imposed by these platforms can significantly impact profitability and sustainability. That’s ok perhaps for the bootstrapped stage, but will have to change before you can raise the pre-seed round. Gaming founders know this challenge well.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review B2C Generative AI IPO 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. WhenBusy is a bootstrapped startup that lets people schedule meetings with you in currently-available time-slots without you having to share your calendar [disclosure: I'm an advisor].

Software Review 261

Software Review Technical Review Viral Software Developers 261

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Individual and institutional donations.

Angel Investor 218

Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 218

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Lee says that Household.sg ‘s is predicated on building a central distribution center that services end customers all over the country, as opposed to the traditional replication of stores in different geographic areas. Currently, the company’s main form of marketing is through online marketing and traditional flyer distribution.

Singapore 230

Singapore Distribution China Bootstrapping 230

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2013

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Individual and institutional donations.

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Equity Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy 207

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure. or an MSN or an AOL in terms of portal distribution. I bootstrapped it on my own. Trying to learn this environment. Let me say this to you.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

New York City 202

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

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? Today it would be near-impossible to bootstrap Smart Bear on those keywords. If printing and binding the documentation is important, is his the best tool? I bought ads for $0.05/click

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Customer Software Review SEM Technical Review 279

The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Social media marketing for startups : How to use social to launch, position your messaging and get distribution. How to Bootstrap Your Startup : Everything you need to start your business – how to take an idea on paper and bring it to life. Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people.

Artificial Inteligence 156

Artificial Inteligence Founder Private Equity Ruby 156

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance. A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels.

Business Model 120

Business Model Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review 120

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y.

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2010

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Individual and institutional donations.

Angel Investor 143

Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 143

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

A nonprofit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. For a nonprofit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Individual and institutional philanthropy.

Angel Investor 132

Angel Investor Equity Technical Review Exit Strategy 132

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Individual and institutional philanthropy.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Equity Technical Review Exit Strategy 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

New York City 120

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 120

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Consumers can take turns in placing the order, and Marcial would need to provide the infrastructure to manage the flow of funds, as well as the distribution of merchandise locally.

Costa Rica 114

Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Friends and family are the most common backers, and many startups bootstrap.

Oregon 24

Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The company is currently bootstrapped and the app is launching next week. We’re distributing these condoms in schools at Long Island in hopes to create some initial buzz among teenagers which are one of our main target audiences. VC Cafe: Sounds like you did a great job bootstrapping. Are you looking to raise funding?

Mobile 99

Mobile Israel Software Review Bootstrapping 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2021

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Funding can be pulled, and future distributions withheld, if objectives are not met. Progress milestones become management objectives.

Term Sheet 433

Term Sheet Advisory Board Liquidation Preference Startup 433

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. To get the visibility and distribution you need will likely require one or two levels of partner relationships and a real model for marketing, events and promotions.

Business Model 414

Business Model Angel Investor Bootstrapping Revenue 414

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Much like your audience analysis report, it will ensure everyone involved in the planning, production, and distribution process is aligned. Select your content distribution channels.

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Audience Non-Compete Distribution Channel 127

Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2014

It means it’s easy enough to develop that eight hours or so is all it takes to build something that can then be distributed/accessed for free by lots of people. Last two years was “fast graph” -> app bootstrapping via “connect your FB account and autofollow all friends.” Taptalk (social photos app).

Product 99

Product SBA SMS API 99

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Now, the fully bootstrapped company is turning 60% of its demos into paid customers and hitting $2.5 They landed their first customer the following March.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. John Jantsch (00:48): Welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Massachusetts Distribution Networking 93

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

But, his tenacity is impresive: he pulled himself back up by the bootstraps, and founded Nextiva which today generates more than $100M ARR. It usually takes spirits brands 5 years to achieve that kind of distribution. Our intrepid founder, Tomas Gorny, has a classic immigrant entrepreneur story. Then, he lost it all.

Entrepreneur 90

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Bootstrapping B2B 90

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

If you have a basic understanding of CSS, HTML, and JS and want to create a WordPress theme, you can do it with Bootstrap and then share it on GetBootstrap, even if you don't know much about WordPress. WordPress theme development and ThemeForest sales are possible ventures, depending on your skill level.

Software Review 127

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 127

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. where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there.

Community 68

Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 68

blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

As you can see, the distributions look quite different between the group of people who got offers and those that didn’t. Take a look at the GPA distribution for candidates who got offers versus candidates that didn’t (click to get a bigger, more interactive version). Undergraduate GPA.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MAY 14, 2010

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. innovate, distribute, monetize. There were about 50-60 people in attendance, of which I knew about 4-5 people. Kathleen McMahon, VP of Sales, SoundHound, Inc.

Mobile 49

Mobile Technical Review Social Network Bootstrapping 49

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself.

Bootstrapping 113

Bootstrapping IP Silicon Valley India 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. To get the visibility and distribution you need will likely require one or two levels of partner relationships and a real model for marketing, events and promotions.

Business Model 273

Business Model Customer Angel Investor Bootstrapping 273

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. John Jantsch (14:54): So, so you probably occasionally drive by some very large buildings that are at about 10% capacity, you know, because employees are distributed now or not coming back to the office ever again.

San Francisco 101

San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 101

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Now, the fully bootstrapped company is turning 60% of its demos into paid customers and hitting $2.5 They landed their first customer the following March.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. Step 5: Get financed.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

.&# I’ve invested in several companies that seem to fit within this categorization, including SimpleGeo , Gnip , and BigDoor , but we don’t really think about them as “data as a service&# companies (SimpleGeo and Gnip are in our Glue theme; BigDoor is in our Distribution theme).

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Open Source Bootstrapping API HTML 126

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60