Startup Development
SoCal CTO
APRIL 23, 2010
How to Work With a Contract Web Developer How To Bootstrap Your Startup
Startup CTO Speaking
SoCal CTO
MAY 21, 2012
Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. What parts Agile addresses and the big problems with Agile for early-stage startups?
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Bootstrapping Relevance: Making Web Conversions Meaningful for Long Sales Cycles
ConversionXL
JANUARY 9, 2019
But even data-driven attribution , robust as it may be, usually improves attribution of form fills or PDF downloads—marketing metrics that may be weak indicators of sales. Charles Farina of Analytics Pros explained: If you are able to qualify a lead quickly, work to connect your metrics to center on qualified leads. Page Value.
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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby
Gust
APRIL 27, 2014
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process.
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How Many Entrepreneurs Really Need a Business Plan?
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 14, 2013
With bootstrapping, no business plan is expected by anyone. Yet I would suggest that creating one is still a valuable exercise, since you need the plan as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics, unless your management style makes this a waste of time.
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5 Strategies Recommended For Successful Bootstrapping
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 8, 2020
I have to explain that if you really want to exercise total control of a new venture, they you need to do it without external investors, bootstrapping your way with your own resources. With bootstrapping, you don’t have other people’s money to spend, and probably not as much of it. Personally manage cash flow processing and procedures.
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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts
SoCal CTO
MARCH 1, 2010
Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.
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Real Unfair Advantages
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 19, 2010
Take the success of ITWatchDogs , the company I helped bootstrap and eventually sell (before Smart Bear). On the surface, it's yet another "marketing metrics" company. The elements of our Dream Team were obvious from the start: Varied skillsets. Yes of course I'll share details!). The right) Celebrity endorsement.
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30 tips for avoiding startup failure, from successful founders
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
Bootstrapping can be fun, you get to iterate quickly, turn on dimes, invent new features on the fly. This is the flip-side of the above advice, but when you start seeing your metrics turn positive, be prepared to invest and grow rapidly. Levi Cooperman , Co-founder and VP of Operations of Freshbooks. Be creative, and stay lean.
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This Is Why You Should Start A Subscription Box Business
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 24, 2017
More importantly, a subscription business model enables you to manage the cash flow, upgrade your business planning and optimize metrics such as churn rates, the lifetime value of a customer, expansion, and more. It is a bootstrappable model. In most cases, urgency and overwhelm can create a lot of stress.
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[Review] The $100 Startup
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 24, 2015
By bootstrapping, bartering, reducing overheads (rental and manpower), and leveraging technology (especially the web), one can start one’s own business almost on a dime without being beholden to creditors or venture capitalists. Positioned as a guide for bootstrapping solopreneurs, the book doesn’t dive deeply into any one specific domain.
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Twitter Link Roundup #224 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 23, 2014
Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. 3 Key PPC Metrics Are Lying To You. 15 Free Bootstrap Admin Themes – crowdspring.co/1jB1FYK. 15 Free Bootstrap Admin Themes – crowdspring.co/1jB1FYK. – crowdspring.co/1j2mWos.
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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
And standing out to a company that got $10 million dollars in funding even before they started Asana is going to be very hard if you bootstrap it with your savings. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question. Jason: That’s called bootstrapping, right.
8 Disciplines for Transforming Ideas Into Businesses
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 30, 2017
Successful entrepreneurs are more likely to bootstrap their own business, and use the discipline of personally validating and approving every check. Manage the business with metrics and goals. Metrics drive a results-oriented culture that leads to continuous quality improvements, required pivots, and recognition of success.
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16 Great Startup Posts from March
SoCal CTO
APRIL 8, 2010
Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics - SoCal CTO , March 11, 2010 Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. The study is featured in the March issue of the Harvard Business Review.
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150 Raising Money Using Customer Development
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Did the VC’s like your team ? Reply Murali Krishna Devarakonda , on November 5, 2009 at 7:44 pm Said: Isn’t it amazing that entrepreneurs need to be told to go after their customers?
YouTube Strategy Lessons from a Channel with 1.6 Million Subscribers
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Key metrics: Average View Duration, Click Through Rate, & Views 3. Refine titles, thumbnails, and content to increase those metrics — Eric Bandholz (@bandholz) November 24, 2020. We’re a bootstrapped company that started with more time than money. Key metrics (90% of your focus). Vanity metrics.
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129 Twitter Link Roundup #215 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 13, 2014
The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. 15 Best Bootstrap Design Tools – crowdspring.co/1ncKgIa. Thinking about buying some online ads? 1ncL3IY.
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Twitter Link Roundup #228 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 20, 2014
Why Lead Velocity Rate (LVR) Is The Most Important Metric in SaaS | saastr – crowdspring.co/U3ZbaM. 50 Extensions and Plugins for Extending Bootstrap – crowdspring.co/1nj8dJm. Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand | Denise Lee Yohn, Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1qkFicI. After Failure, What’s Next? |
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Analytics Career Advice: Job Titles, Salaries, Technical & Business Roles
Occam's Razor
DECEMBER 3, 2008
If you want to have a move your career forward in web analytics (from a Metrics Analyst) here are the four options for you (and yes they all will help you make more money, some more than others): |1| Technical Individual Contributor. As an Evangelist you pull your organization up by the bootstraps (quite gratifying).
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MAY 26, 2009
Bootstrap for years! You can bootstrap without VC money. Reply conversationalistOU812 , on November 9, 2009 at 10:31 am Said: Dmitriy is right – we should ban the use of industry buzzwords like “verticals&# , “metrics&# and “horizontals&# altogether. Yeah, I said.
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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 29, 2013
Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow.
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14 Tips for Starting a Successful Business
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
While you may be enamored with becoming an entrepreneur and bootstrapping your business, don’t quit your day job. There’s actually a lot of value in bootstrapping your business. You need to be consistent in the time you invest, establish milestones and metrics for success, and solidify a process for reviewing performance.
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Twitter Link Roundup #233 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Benchmarking Hubspot’s S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up – crowdspring.co/1qlwWRG. 40 Extensions And Plugins For Extending Bootstrap – crowdspring.co/1w2XjfG. Rarely say yes to feature requests | Inside Intercom – crowdspring.co/1plBz95. You suck at technical interviews – crowdspring.co/1pEfybN.
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Capple Factory Brings Couples Together Through Mobile Apps [Interview]
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
The company is currently bootstrapped and the app is launching next week. VC Cafe: What goals/metrics are you tracking and what would you consider ‘success’ at the end of year one? VC Cafe: Sounds like you did a great job bootstrapping. Ofir: We’re tracking downloads of course. Are you looking to raise funding?
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TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns
The Next Web
JUNE 19, 2012
Having said that, you have to be very careful with such lists and all other personal “vanity metrics” They tell the world that you’re doing something right but can have very little to do with the impact you have or how successful you are. These are the “metrics” you should live by.
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6 Ways To Test Your New Venture Sustainability Early
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. Decide early where and when money will come from, set some milestones and metrics, and work to a plan, or be caught short. No matter how good your cause, it takes real money to sustain a business.
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414 The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. On the one hand, bootstrapping your business gives you much more control over it. Step 8: Track your metrics. For many people, tracking metrics can seem like something scary, boring, or time-consuming.
The Impact of Community
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. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. We were expecting twins.
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68 The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Pricing Strategy for Your SaaS Startup
Up and Running
JULY 10, 2017
It’s critical to understand the metrics in terms of dollars per additional user, as you’ll have to spend this amount to serve thousands of your non-paying customers. If you are a bootstrapped DIY solopreneur, you should estimate your chances and think twice before choosing your VC-funded, 200-employees-strong competitor’s pricing strategy.
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110 Startup CEO (OnlyOnce- the book!), Part III – Pre-Order Now
OnlyOnce
JULY 9, 2013
The book is part of the Startup Revolution series that Brad has been working on for a couple years now, including Do More (Even) Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life (with two more to come, Startup Boards and Startup Metrics). Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected!
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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Companies They are Starting in 2023
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.
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7 Ways To Highlight Your Personal Value To Investors
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. These show a focus on the business elements required for success, and metrics for ensuring accountability, management control, and feedback along the way.
6 Hard Questions That Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
In the real world, evidence indicate the vast majority of new ventures are self-funded, or bootstrapped. This will incent earlier thinking outside the box, and help you get metrics in place to track progress, or lack of it, along the way. In all cases, people management and leadership are key.
Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
What I’m challenged with as a small business owner is, I don’t know if it’s the press, or if it’s just the culture in general, but there’s this pressing vanity metric of, How much capital have you raised? The other is, ‘Don’t forget about bootstrapping.’ ’ Melissa: Yes, I was.
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6 Keys To A Winning Business Model For Your Customers
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. Decide early where and when money will come from, set some milestones and metrics, and work to a plan, or be caught short. No matter how good your cause, it takes real money to sustain a business.
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8 Tasks To Prepare You For Starting Your Own Business
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 25, 2023
By far, the majority of new businesses I know are self-funding (bootstrapped) from your own savings and prior assets. Define key metrics to measure progress and success. Use comparable metrics for managing team member results. The remainder use outside funding, including crowdfunding, friends and family, banks, and investors.
Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 4, 2014
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process.
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268 Dragons, Bootstrapping and Women in Tech
Up and Running
OCTOBER 1, 2014
Statdragon is a Saas platform that allows businesses to access and analyze metrics about their existing videos and optimize their video marketing strategy. What about bootstrapping? ” The post Dragons, Bootstrapping and Women in Tech appeared first on Bplans Blog. Their latest product, Statdragon, launched just last week.
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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #3: The five critical ingredients to build a big company
Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
Read my Lucky7 Bootstrap or VC? Also, it is very important that you maintain a bootstrap mentality to the greatest extent possible after you take funding. I wish I had done the same at Coremetrics, and it was ironic that I didn’t because I bootstrapped my first three businesses and they all had great cashflow.
Should you raise money or bootstrap?
Hippoland
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Should you raise money or bootstrap? (By By bootstrap, I actually mean raise < $250k from individuals / angels). Having run a startup that raised money and now in running a VC, ironically, if I were starting a product company today, I would start out with the mentality of bootstrapping for as long as I could.
How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business
Up and Running
MAY 15, 2019
Friends and family are the most common backers, and many startups bootstrap. Metrics: Know your numbers. Here are the numbers, metrics, and other indicators Patrick says brewers should monitor: Breweries should typically break even or generate a small profit by the first six to 12 months of operation.
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‘Out of Control’ Startups Fail on 8 Key Processes
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process.
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255 StartupRoar.com – A Source Of Aggregated, Curated Entrepreneurial Content
YoungUpstarts
JULY 22, 2011
You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.
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