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Boostrapping transloadit.com

Felix Geisendörfer
May 02, 2012
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Boostrapping transloadit.com

Presentation given on 27.04.2012 at Roots conference in Bergen, Norway.

Felix Geisendörfer

May 02, 2012
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Transcript

  1. Bootstrapping
    transloadit.com
    by Felix Geisendörfer
    27.04.2012 at Roots Conference (Bergen, Norway)

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  2. core contributor

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  3. (@)felixge(.de)

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  4. This Talk

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  5. Lean Startup

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  6. Change the World

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  7. Billion Dollar Exits

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  8. Story of transloadit.com

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  9. Starting a business

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  10. Self-financing

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  11. Becoming (ramen)
    profitable

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  12. Freedom

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  13. 90 minutes ...

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  14. Format

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  15. Interrupt

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  16. Participate

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  17. Audience

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  18. In a startup?

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  19. Want to start one?

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  20. Let’s get started

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  21. transloadit.com

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  22. File Upload & Processing

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  26. Charging per $ / GB

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  27. Profitable as of
    Feb 2012

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  28. Scale: 5 - 50 servers

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  29. Revenue: $ X0,000

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  30. Technical Skills

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  48. The Idea

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  49. December 2008

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  50. Buenos Aires, Argentina
    CakeFest #2

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  54. Cross browser
    requests

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  55. Cross-domain
    file uploads

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  56. Cross-domain
    file uploads
    Profit
    ?

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  57. Handle all
    media files!

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  59. Think Minimal!

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  60. Co-founders

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  61. Go alone, die alone

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  62. How to find co-
    founders?

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  63. Don’t search
    -
    Attract

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  64. Co-Founder #1: Tim

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  66. ~mid 2007

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  67. thinkingphp.org

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  68. PostTask.com

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  69. Started in early 2007

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  71. Failure

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  72. Running out of savings

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  73. Loosing Focus

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  74. Co-Founder #2: Kevin

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  75. ~mid 2008

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  78. The E-Mail

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  79. Shares

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  80. Equal shares for
    co-founders

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  81. Creating a company

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  82. Why?

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  83. Liability

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  84. Perception

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  85. Things to Consider

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  86. Costs

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  87. Time

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  88. Bootstrapping with
    Contracting

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  89. 2005 - 2012

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  90. Acquiring Clients

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  91. Blogging

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  92. Networking

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  93. Referrals

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  94. Setting your rate

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  95. Daily (!)

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  96. High

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  97. Dividing Time

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  98. Development

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  99. Release something
    ASAP

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  100. Technology

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  101. Use what’s fun

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  102. Mix in reliable stuff

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  103. Pricing

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  104. Aim for expensive

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  105. IaaS: Do Plans

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  106. You *CAN* change it

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  107. CreditCard trick

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  108. Marketing

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  109. Blogging

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  110. Open Source

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  111. Learn

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  112. Trust

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  113. Funding

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  114. VC or not?

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  115. Risks & Comfort

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  116. Be pragmatic

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  117. Office

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  118. No

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  119. The Future

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  120. Final Advise

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  121. Never Give Up

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  122. Questions

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  123. Thanks

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