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Bootstrapping transloadit.com by Felix Geisendörfer 27.04.2012 at Roots Conference (Bergen, Norway)
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core contributor
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(@)felixge(.de)
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This Talk
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Lean Startup
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Change the World
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Billion Dollar Exits
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Story of transloadit.com
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Starting a business
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Self-financing
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Becoming (ramen) profitable
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Freedom
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90 minutes ...
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Format
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Interrupt
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Participate
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Audience
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In a startup?
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Want to start one?
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Let’s get started
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transloadit.com
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File Upload & Processing
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Charging per $ / GB
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Profitable as of Feb 2012
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Scale: 5 - 50 servers
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Revenue: $ X0,000
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Technical Skills
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The Idea
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December 2008
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Buenos Aires, Argentina CakeFest #2
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Cross browser requests
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Cross-domain file uploads
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Cross-domain file uploads Profit ?
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Handle all media files!
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Think Minimal!
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Co-founders
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Go alone, die alone
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How to find co- founders?
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Don’t search - Attract
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Co-Founder #1: Tim
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~mid 2007
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thinkingphp.org
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PostTask.com
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Started in early 2007
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Failure
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Running out of savings
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Loosing Focus
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Co-Founder #2: Kevin
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~mid 2008
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The E-Mail
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Shares
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Equal shares for co-founders
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Creating a company
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Why?
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Liability
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Perception
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Things to Consider
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Costs
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Time
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Bootstrapping with Contracting
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2005 - 2012
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Acquiring Clients
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Blogging
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Networking
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Referrals
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Setting your rate
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Daily (!)
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High
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Dividing Time
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Development
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Release something ASAP
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Technology
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Use what’s fun
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Mix in reliable stuff
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Pricing
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Aim for expensive
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IaaS: Do Plans
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You *CAN* change it
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CreditCard trick
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Marketing
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Blogging
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Open Source
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Learn
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Trust
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Funding
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VC or not?
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Risks & Comfort
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Be pragmatic
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Office
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Final Advise
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Never Give Up
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Questions
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Thanks