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 [...]
If you’ve been following the startup scene, you probably stumbled, a little earlier last week, on the Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud where you get an incubator funding of $37 (no joke, this) along with what is stated as “additional help in making contacts in computerland and attracting an initial pool of customers.” Besides a [...]
One of the top reasons that startups fail is the fact that they don’t know how to manage their pockets, according to Inc Magazine. It’s not like many startups are headed by people with fancy degrees in business management. You’re just a guy or a lady with an idea, and you’re kind of busy developing [...]
We hear a lot about startups raising millions of dollars, sometimes in multiple rounds. But we rarely hear about the corollary: every time a company takes more money from investors, the founders lose some of their control. The worst case result is that a founder can find himself forced out of a company after it [...]
As of a few days ago, my company, a small consulting firm in the DC/MD/VA area, launched a Kickstarter campaign in the hopes of generating funding to make some products of our own. We’ve had a lot of people ask us since then, exactly why we chose to do this via Kickstarter, versus seeking out [...]
When you’ve decided to place ads on your site, the next biggest question is whether to join an ad network, an ad marketplace or to go it alone. Obviously, you can earn more money if someone else isn’t taking a slice of your profits, but you’ll have to invest more time into drumming up advertisers. [...]
Depending on the audience your app attracts, it may make sense to sell advertising. But don’t just slap some AdSense code up on your site and see what happens. Selling advertising effectively — and actually earning money from it — isn’t exactly that simple. Most sites with ads on them may manage to cover their [...]
Even if you plan on living on ramen while building a new company, you’ve got to have a little cash, if only to pay for the ramen itself. One option to get that money is to raise funds from your friends and family. There’s an obvious danger here: if anything goes pear-shaped, you’re going to [...]
In order to raise the level of funds you need to start on most big development projects, you’re going to need to market it. Just emailing a link to friends and family isn’t enough (and done incorrectly, may annoy your loved ones). Your crowdfunding campaign needs as much of a marketing plan as the business [...]
Creating a successful crowdfunding campaign depends on your ability to explain what funders are going to receive in return for their money. If you look at the most successful crowdfunding campaigns, the creators have something very specific to offer. The first level or two may amount to little more than a thank you, but whether [...]
