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Why We Chose Kickstarter
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...
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5 Ways to Raise Money Without Giving Up a Share of Your Company
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...
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5 Ways You Fail Miserably At Managing Your Money
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...
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Self-funding: The Simple Forgotten Mantra To Create A Successful Startup
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)...
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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...
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Building a company based on what you can afford to do right now is a lot easier if you can bring in a little extra cash here and there. And since you’ve clearly got some serious skills if you’re...
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It’s cheap to open a company that just builds software: at the bare minimum, you need a computer and a way to feed yourself until you can produce revenue. In other industries, entrepreneurs have to...
View ArticleThe Real Problem with a Bitcoin Startup Accelerator
It seems like there’s an accelerator specializing in everything: there are women-oriented accelerators, accelerators focused on specific towns and accelerators dedicated to the trendiest technologies....
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Robert Granholm runs IT Arsenal, a company that supports new online businesses with their technology needs. Websites, e-mail marketing, maintenance, sales systems, and much more. You can find Robert on...
View ArticleHow to Use a Preorder to Prove Your Product
The concept of a preorder is relatively simple: you come up with an idea for your product and market that idea. People can pay for their subscription or purchase before you even start production,...
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