Bootstrapped Questions

I live on the west coast. Of France. I'm currently looking at starting my own web startup. I have the idea, the expertise, even the cofounder. I'm reading a lot on the subject, and I intend to...

Bootstrapped Location

asked Oct 28 '11 at 22:52

Tom Macdonald
113 points

We looking for interns to work with us (yumety) ( machine learning, supervised algorithm ) - anyone knows how to contact interns?

Getting Started Bootstrapped

asked Oct 24 '11 at 10:12

Debasish
46 points

Background... met my partner about 2 months ago off a list-serv in my general geographic location. My partner - about age 28, has a wife, no kids, but seems to get busy as heck at times and...

Getting Started Bootstrapped

asked Sep 27 '11 at 08:17

Weedoo
11 points

I have recently started a startup. I am totally bootstrapping the startup, and so costs are being kept to a minimum. There is no way the company can afford to pay me my normal (or even...

Getting Started Bootstrapped Business Accounting Bookkeeping

asked Aug 9 '11 at 15:45

Voidstar
55 points

Funding your company is an important part of your startup and expansion strategy. It's a broad topic that has a lot of aspects including: keeping your idea secret, seed funding, angels, venture...

Bootstrapped Funding Investors Seed Funding Canon

asked Jul 23 '11 at 23:23

Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

I have been building a bootstrapped SaaS business for the better part of a year working late into the night most nights per week. I have never spent anything aside from my own time and a few...

Bootstrapped Legal Sole Proprietorship

asked Jul 7 '11 at 16:11

Matt Beckman
132 points

I was working for a large financial firms as Senior Technical Architect, spending almost 15 hours a day. I quit my job around 18 months back to start this startup and taking an underpaid/under...

Bootstrapped Hiring Technology Day Job Jobs

asked Jul 7 '11 at 18:17

User11074
39 points

I came up with an idea for a startup, and after trying to start other ventures with non-paid partners I knew the only way to get this done right was to hire a developer straight up to code the...

Bootstrapped Co-Founder Equity Legal Partnerships

asked Jun 15 '11 at 01:19

Patrick
6 points

We recently launched an online quoting SaaS and are targeting some fairly competitive keywords (e.g. quoting software or quoting system). Because the domain is relatively new (~6 months), I know it...

Marketing Bootstrapped Inbound Marketing SEO

asked Jun 10 '11 at 08:35

Mike
252 points

I've been working on a bootstrapped startup for about 2 years now. I've been working on it solo to this point, but I feel I'm starting to run out of gas. I need fresh ideas, money and assistance in...

Bootstrapped Co-Founder Partnerships

asked Jun 10 '11 at 11:02

Sterling Nichols
148 points

This may be slightly different based on your industry, but I'm interested in your expertise on what your proven and effective methods for bootstrapping... where to save money, what steps to skip,...

Bootstrapped

asked Jun 2 '11 at 05:49

Sam
509 points

My partner and I wanted to have a video on the landing page that explains our startup. Is there any crowdsourcing for videos out there? How do usually startups get someone to make a video for...

Marketing Bootstrapped Video

asked May 22 '11 at 15:21

Jpartogi
1,342 points

I have been approached by a friend to help with the business side of a venture that he has developed/bootstrapped. No external funding until now. He has developed a working product with outsourced...

Bootstrapped Funding Equity Terms And Conditions

asked May 25 '11 at 16:30

Paddy
31 points

Is it better to pay more up front for a custom coded website, or go with open source CMS, which is a much more economical alternative. Specifically for this bootstrapped micro startup, there is one...

Bootstrapped Website Micro Startup

asked May 11 '11 at 03:15

Sam
509 points

I am just venturing into a new product and one thing I realised is that "Price is the ONLY one advantage" I have. I have solid web-development experience and I can build web apps in a fraction of...

Pricing Bootstrapped Competition

asked May 17 '11 at 04:42

User8226
197 points

I'm sure this has been asked before, but my searchfu failed me, so I'll ask... How do people bootstrap (which I assume is the most common early-funding model) and manage to pay the rent and feed...

Bootstrapped Funding

asked Apr 24 '11 at 14:33

Fixee
155 points

The service I'm planning to launch, requires a lot of work (code and design-wise), and it definitely needs more than 1-2 persons. In my country, start-up partners are hard to find/non-existent. It...

Bootstrapped Features Outsourcing

asked Mar 18 '11 at 19:08

Dyn Zack
216 points

Context: I started a SAAS based platform for small and medium sized companies around a year back. To save some time I intentionally took this underpaid job close to my home. I have successfully...

Bootstrapped Funding Job Offer Jobs

asked Mar 2 '11 at 23:56

User8226
197 points

This post/question is little long but could be useful for startups so I decided to write it here. I have been using an internal dashboard to track my application events and user actions in a php...

Bootstrapped User Interface

asked Feb 12 '11 at 01:33

Nilesh
420 points

I'm a biz dev & marketing guy with a development background and about a year ago I started coding an idea. It took shape and I mentioned it to an ex-colleague / friend. He was extremely unhappy...

Bootstrapped Co-Founder Equity

asked Jan 30 '11 at 11:37

Dinosaur Jr
11 points