The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In early 2011, I wrote a post, Startups: Not for the faint of heart , that discussed Parse.ly’s survival through a one-year bootstrapping period after Dreamit Ventures Philly ’09. No Bootstrapping Plan : Many startups that come out of an accelerator program (such as YCombinator, Dreamit, or TechStars) simply do not get funding.

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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. But when we talk about “lean,” we’re referring to the processes a company can use, when developing a new product or service, to learn quickly about the questions it has.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Outside investors are most interested in scaling a proven business model, not research and development. Thus it’s a waste of time for most entrepreneurs to be looking for investors until they have a product and some customer revenue. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. So again, none of this is me trying to say what you should do for product development, in fact, or what you should write in code in fact. Edwin: I know. Jason: Exactly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2022

23- Bootstrapping the business. As a bootstrapped company, there's a real sense of reward knowing that we're doing what's best for our customers instead of what's in the best interest of investors. Bootstrapping the business allows me to make decisions independently of investor opinions. Thanks to Jimmy Huh, Jimmy Huh ! #23-

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Spencer Fry

MAY 2, 2014

Anyone who works in product development will know that ten months is an eternity. Unfortunately, it’s just the nature of product development — and especially so when you’re working with part-time people —that deadlines are missed and work takes much longer than you expected. Why Bootstrapping is Good and Bad.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

According to Lee M Von Kraus, PHD and a mentor at Clarity.fm, “Early stage startups are usually pre-money startup that are bootstrapping the early development of a product.”. Product development. Initial product development usually consists of prototyping and MVP. Prototyping. Let’s learn that.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2012

Eric has done some technology scouting, and believes he can deliver on the specs of the product. The problem, however, is that he is assuming that an investor would fund the product development. Investors rarely fund concepts. Even seed investors generally fund businesses that are already rolling. SustanAbin.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Creating and scaling a marketing plan.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We actually met taking some web development classes in Chicago. I was doing an early-stage startup in Chicago and Betsy was running a physical product development company in Charlotte that she’d recently sold. Both Betsy and I come from entrepreneurial backgrounds before starting TTS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

be the manager and product developer). Team Roles: There are six main roles that most new organizations need to consider in some capacity. In a new venture, it’s typical that each team member will likely wear multiple hats (i.e. Just make sure that at any given time, each person knows what they are responsible for.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MARCH 1, 2013

That’s the big question that many founders ask themselves as they try to get their product and service to market. You can find successful entrepreneurs on both sides of the bootstrap debate: there are definitely advantages—and disadvantages—to both bootstrapping and raising venture capital. Helps you to focus.

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The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

You have a profitable bootstrapped business with good, linear growth. You could either take or reject the licensing deal (based on your feelings about the exclusivity clause), and then plan to bootstrap the transition from a consumer-marketing model into an enterprise-sales one. The good, the bad, and the bootstrapped.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 1, 2012

Why the obsession with raising money, what if you don’t want a huge company, what if you want to bootstrap, don’t you know raising money isn’t a measure of correctness or success, … I agree! Let’s focus on just one question: For which company would be easier to raise money? That’s shitty!

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software. The Details It seems like it would be impossible to find someone to even partially fund development of an application.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS.

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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. But if you are going to have somebody who's developing a product, developing a new technology, designing, or going out into marketing and figuring out new ways to market, you really need a thinker.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Creating and scaling a marketing plan.

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The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

You have a profitable bootstrapped business with good, linear growth. You could either take or reject the licensing deal (based on your feelings about the exclusivity clause), and then plan to bootstrap the transition from a consumer-marketing model into an enterprise-sales one. The good, the bad, and the bootstrapped.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This is why I made the decision to bootstrap HighRadius. As a founder and CEO, the most important gift that bootstrapping gave me was the ability to slow down, speed up and pivot when and where we knew we needed to. Focus on Product Development First. For them, one success story can more than make up for three failures.

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Street Smart Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

As painful and frustrating as it is, many successful product people I’ve met have […]. The post Bootstrapping A Startup Product In Your Company appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 1, 2012

These days, our advertisers run the gamut — some of our advertisers make billions each year while others are bootstrapped individuals who don’t earn anything right now. They think of paid marketing as an extension of product development — to get new customers to feed their data pipeline to shape their product.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. Yes, I am sure David's venture is eminently fundable within a few months.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

In this post I wanted to touch on the companies who are making the biggest impact in the AR space, both in terms of product development and the developer ecosystem tools they are releasing to power the next generation of AR experiences. The companies making the biggest impact on the future of AR.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I currently just started a tech blog to cover under the radar, bootstrapped startups and this is great advice for the startups I cover and my readers. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup. Big Picture Overview of All the Components of a Web Service [To Come] More to Come… Cliff Dailey This is a great post. Thanks again.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2015

Services we provide include brand identity, integrated marketing, inbound marketing strategy, art direction, web-design & development, startup incubation and product development services to a wide array of clients ranging from bootstrapped startups to successful longstanding companies.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years. I am not looking for loads of traction but the ability to have a conversation with a team about what they’ve learned each new week based on something new they tried in their sales or product development the prior week.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years. I am not looking for loads of traction but the ability to have a conversation with a team about what they’ve learned each new week based on something new they tried in their sales or product development the prior week.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And a few words about Persistent Systems, an outsourced software product development (OPD) company that is navigating its next phase of evolution are also warranted. It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company. Social CRM is becoming quite a trend, and CrowdEngineering really pushes the envelope on the subject.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

Gesto decided to scale InvGate after bootstrapping for the past 14 years. Gesto plans to invest the fresh funds in global expansion, such as the recruitment of new employees, the opening of new regional offices, and the introduction of new products and technologies.

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Street Smart Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Many of my free product help calls are about ways to pursue customer development and gather VOC, bootstrap new product efforts, and apply lean principles to product management activities. Long Live “Agile Conversations” appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager. The post RIP PRDs.

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