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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. Re:GNU does this too and I hate it by musikit · · Score: -1, Troll

    change your primary language to english in your browser.

  2. Re:And we have by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    WTF is GNAA? Christ, I need amusement. Wake up, trolls!

  3. Yawn. by NineNine · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sorry, but starting a software company with $0 is really no big deal at all. Most software doesn't take anything but time to create, and selling takes nothing but a pair of shows and/or a telephone. If these guys had started, say, a retail business, or a manufacturing business with no money, I'd be impressed. As is, I started my own brick-and-mortar company on credit cards last year, and this year will have sales of $500K+ and projected sales next year of $1M+. No VC. Ever. So, like I said... big deal.