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

Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

You could also use personal earnings and do a bit of bootstrapping as well. Order and distribute leaflets. Don’t stress about it, just use this week to focus your thoughts and bring everything you thought about and learned in week 1, together. Day 8: Write a one page pitch. Place an ad in a newspaper or get a radio spot.

Elevator Pitch

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

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

techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Accountant – Someone needs to pay attention to the money.

San Francisco

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program.

Software Review

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

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Perhaps the nomenclature is off, but a distributor suggests that there is something to distribute.

Technical Review

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It’s basic bootstrapping; you’ll want to leverage a little bit of high-level technical expertise to minimize risk. To date we’re bootstrapping to get to an arbitrary step 2 to get to proof of concept and so we can get the people we want to take us seriously, both angels/VCs and CTOs. 10-15/hour.

Technical Review

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. free, distributed source code control management system. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. and they will instantly look pretty. Pivotal Tracker â??

Software Review

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

It would be a hugely useful investment actually not just for vaccines but potentially creating bootstrapping an enormous amount of manufacturing capability for these new types of medicines that are currently very expensive to make because you don't have the scale to make them. Hannu Rajaniemi : Absolutely.

Founder

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So these companies that are kind of for — in the sort of mechanical term, distributed workforces and outsource work being run online. It’s very rare that they actually successfully bootstrapped, because it’s just so hard to do if you can’t invest any money. The GitHub guys did an amazing job. So what they did was incredibly impressive.

Software Review

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) How to have good startup? [.]

Technical Review

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. In such a case youll have the right to use it, but not to decompile or distribute it and probably youll pay a license amount for it. Insightful.

CTO Hire

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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.

Technical Review

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

Customer

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

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

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

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The 1M/1M program aims to help a million entrepreneurs globally reach $1 million in revenue (and beyond), thereby building the foundation of a robust, distributed and sustainable economic value creation that would add up to $1 trillion dollars in global GDP. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. What makes 1M/1M unique?

Silicon Valley

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

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

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

If you do a launch it’s rare for the launch to take of organically, it must also be accompanied by a level of paid distribution (i.e. Distribution: Most startups tend to launch on either Kickstarter or on their own site. But very soon they need to expand to figure out other distribution channels.

Software Review

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Being distributed/network ready (even though Ethernet was just barely coming into use in the enterprise). Larry was loathe to sell any of the company stock; he generally took a dim view of VCs and preferred to bootstrap. Back then he advocated for. There we were, right under their noses!

Technical Review

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. Residents are collaborating to start, finance and manage public works projects and proving they can bootstrap a better job themselves. The top down era of one size fits all. And now it is over.

Uruguay

techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. If an instance dies for any reason, the ASG automatically creates a replacement instance and the Netflix tooling manages bootstrap replacement of that node in the Cassandra cluster. All instances are created using the EC2 auto-scaler feature.

EC2

Transformify

JUNE 8, 2025

Every job listing posted to TFY ATS is automatically distributed to over 100 top job boards and aggregators worldwide, ensuring maximum visibility for your openings. Breezy HR Breezy HR is a user-friendly ATS designed for startups and growing businesses, offering a free Bootstrap plan and customizable features.

Malta

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation.

Venture Capital

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web? I strongly endorse bootstrapping, and I will tell you I speak from experience. We had three mortgages and $65,000 in credit card debt at one point doing this bootstrapping. We are, in bullet points, taking through what is our pricing? Are we high, low or medium? Is it risky?

Lean

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! At the same time, it became clear that bootstrapping further was not an option our team could pursue.

Silicon Valley

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

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

And as we looked at that and had discussions and examined what that meant, it really meant distributing the sense of ownership, just pushing it out and opening it up and trying to enable anyone else to do this as well. And that was $100,000 that came in to bootstrap Chicago and Detroit and Atlanta.

San Francisco

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2022

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

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

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

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2011

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

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

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.

Equity

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

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