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23 Oct 2025
50 yr old founders 3x more likely to succeed than 20 yr olds: @barabasi @UnsiloedPodcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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21 Apr 2025
Constraint created innovation, Nintendo via @AcquiredFM podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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31 Mar 2025
Insightful interview w @toddcoerver. Insights: maintain the core while scaling during the transition from founder-led to CEO founder; company is a tribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Bootstrap Austin retweeted
26 Jan 2025
The power of constraints: How Dr. Seuss used only 50 words to write his best-selling book of all time theladders.com/career-advice…
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30 Oct 2024
The Evolution of Austin Tech: A Conversation Between Two Pioneer Entrepreneurs siliconhillsnews.com/2024/10…
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5 Aug 2024
How we built our bootstrapped startup different and sold it for $40M. (Hint: We ignored some myths) - FORTUNE apple.news/Axe88hgp2Rzqpge2n…
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24 Jan 2024
Demo/Sell/Build, Constraint Creates Innovation and many other bootstrap principles
3 Jan 2024
This week on #HowIBuiltThis, hear how @PaigeMycoskie grew @AviatorNation into a multi-million dollar brand - that still makes all its clothes in California.
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17 Oct 2023
Steve Jobs throws some well-deserved shade at the DOS UI during a NeXTSTEP demo (cued up): youtu.be/rf5o5liZxnA?si=qSaq…
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Bootstrap Austin retweeted
22 Jun 2023
Join us, @DellTech & @LaunchPadUT on 6/29 for the Austin Startup Ecosystem Summit celebrating Austin’s vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem! RSVP Here 4:30-7:30pm @ Crum Auditorium
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17 Feb 2023
Insightful interview with @sfrancisatx on the ATC Podcast hosted by @thomsinger. Scott bootstrapped @bp3global and provides many nuggets of wisdom for founders, including interrogating & developing your startup mental models and gathering them through the companies you work in.
5 Jan 2023
This week’s “Austin Tech Connect” is an interesting chat with @sfrancisatx - CEO at BP3. Don’t miss an episode of the @ATCouncil podcast. #austin #austintech #austintechnology #atx #austintx
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24 Sep 2022
The Bootstrap Film Fest was held on June 26, 2008. Here's the conversation with the filmmakers on the BootRap Podcast: bit.ly/bootfilmfest
16 Sep 2022
Fantastic documentary on Douglas Engelbart, the 20th century father of bootstrapping and modern computing. youtu.be/_7ZtISeGyCY
11 Aug 2022
Founders aren't all-knowing gods and it is bad for everyone, including them, to create a false mythology of their infallibility. Entrepreneurship is a process, conducted by TEAMS. nytimes.com/2022/08/10/busin…
28 Jul 2022
The Great Neal Kocurek was the first ever speaker at Bootstrap Austin, way back in 2003. Thank you, Neal, for sharing your wisdom ❤️ bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/Nea…
15 May 2022
Maven, Relater or Evangelist? Discover your core energy and that of your cofounder/startup team: aviri.teachable.com/p/maven-…
3 May 2022
We have a new entrepreneurial type - the slackpreneur - a subset of journey entrepreneurs and on the opposite end of the funded entrepreneurs: urbandictionary.com/define.p…
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3 May 2022
and by "new" we mean "old." Slackpreneurs have been around forever; they just haven't gotten around to telling you about themselves. They abide. 😉
24 Mar 2022
When funded-entrepreneurship goes terribly wrong and becomes pure grift. Watch this 2015 Stanford interview with the Theranos founder with @theDropoutHulu Series. youtube.com/watch?v=9WsCfqGI…
22 Feb 2022
Why, yes, yes we do! #constraintcreatesinnovation
19 Feb 2022
In a era where 0$ revenue making companies raising 10s of millions - it’s nice to see Tope Awotona, Calendly founder brave war zones & risk his own resources to bootstrap his company. I’d bet @bootstrapaustin would like this one. fortune.com/2020/11/19/calen…
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