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Bootstrapping Start-ups

Posted by michael on from the he-travels-the-fastest-who-travels-alone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "How many of us wanted to follow our dream and start our own start-up? How many of us thought that it can't be done due to costs, the need of big bucks and convincing some snotty VC? Well it didn't stop these guys. The most current success story is social networking software Huminity which has been on /. before. The recipe for their success was: open source, clustering $100/mo servers, using the web to find native translators instead of using over priced local ones and hiring GUI designers from popular skins download sites."

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  1. Shame they didn't have someone design their site by cosmo7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Argh my eyes! They're still blinking!

  2. And now... by BMonger · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... their bandwidth costs have forced them to close down.

  3. i have a startup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    and i am the only employee/CEO of the company....browse pr0n all day. haven't figured out how to get somebody to pay me for it though

  4. From the article: by Steve+'Rim'+Jobs · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are no more angels willing to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars.

    Sure, if by angels you mean idiots.

  5. Re:Only problem... by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does anyone have a good suggestion for raising capital without forfeiting the rights to one's intellectual property?

    I believe the typical strategy is to run up your credit cards, mortgage your house, and borrow from relatives.

    --
    "We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
  6. Bootstrapping a startup... by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 4, Funny
    Isn't is usually:

    # Boot automatically after 30 years.
    timeout 30

    # By default, boot the first entry.
    default 0

    # Fallback to the second entry.
    fallback 1

    title Working for Myself
    root (hd1,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz

    title Working for the Man
    # Always likes to put itself first hrumph
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    makeactive
    chainloader +1

    title Begging for Change
    root (hd1,0)
    kernel /vmlinux home=/dev/null
    --
    "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
    --Dr.W.Edwards Deming
  7. Re:Drugs! by the_mad_poster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most mid-level pot/coke dealers aren't nearly as tough as they seem, they aren't going to go more than 500 miles out of their way to recoup under $5,000.

    I can't help but think that there's really only one way to learn this sort of thing...

    --
    Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!