Just because you’re Bootstrapping a startup doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about patents. I’m guessing most of us have this feeling that we’re, after all, bootstrapping with limited resources and doing stuff that would hardly come under the scanner of patent trolls and others. I’m also guessing that’s what many of the developers who got [...]
Quentin’s post 9 Goals for 9 Months had one interesting goal. #9: Land 20 Paying Subscribers. Startups often aim for the first 50, 100, 1000, 2000 users. Sometimes, startups that are focused on “social” try to acquire more customers, faster. It usually runs into thousands. But 20 is a magic number. If you are bootstrapping [...]
Co-founding a startup means sacrifices, trust and giving more than your best at all times. Technically, it makes things easier but at the fundamental level there’s a lot of work involved. Every decision you take (almost) might have to get through rigorous debates and that’s a good thing if your partner has a broad and [...]
TL;DR – Fellow Bootstrappist subscriber Rob’s cool new app, PixelPress, needs funding to become a full-fledged iOS app that’ll help everyone create cool video games (without having to write a single line of code). The app looks amazing and you should check out the Kickstarter campaign right away! Help Rob by funding the project or [...]
Will my product succeed? Is it a good market fit? Will I find users who’ll pay for my product? These are few questions that startup developers keep asking themselves. Some don’t “start up” because they don’t have concrete answers to these questions. Some stop the development mid-way because validation isn’t happening. In the wake of [...]
Deciding just what to charge for software is something of a black art. It’s particularly hard when you’re offering a mobile app: there are people offering their apps for free, which is very difficult to compete with if you really want to make money on your work. Traditionally, prices have been tied directly to the [...]
Funded startups (or incubating ones) have it easy when it comes to getting mentors. For the rest of us who are starting up on our own, there’s the whole wide world to choose from. Mentors are really a boon when it comes to leap-frogging, saving time while troubleshooting and more. You might be at crossroads [...]
There’s no point in creating software if you never ship it. The only way to really succeed it to get something out there, in the wild — that way, you can see if it works and decide if you need to keep improving it. As Jeff Atwood says, you have to “do it in public.” [...]
By true definition of startups, we’re talking about quick growth. A lot of people have spoken about this – about why a startup has to grow insanely quickly. A large percentage of all the YC-funded starts that promised quick growth do not exist today. They’re either the ‘crash and burn’ types or the ‘acquired’ type. [...]
People take engagement for granted on the web. In its stead, we have X visits, Y clicks, Z purchases, and then a plethora of other things that “quantizes” your progress. This is so true for startup founders and bootstrappists who – in the absence of a tangible way to measure stuff – resort to these [...]
