Techcrunch50 Winner Redbeacon Tells Their Story

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by rizzn • 17 years ago

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rizzn4• 17 years ago

Video post by Robert Scoble. Guys from Redbeacon talk about their long term forecasts and marketing efforts (after the TC bump).

jf781• 17 years ago

Young guns from Google. I know Ethan from Google video days. I like how they bootstrapped it. No full time employees til the product launches in the market. Smart move.

We are living in a new counter culture

rizzn4• 17 years ago

They were one of several ents from TC50 that said they financed it (bootstrapped) with their credit cards, Kevin Smith style.

numair2• 17 years ago

I am always amazed by the lack of historical knowledge among large portions of the HN crowd (not knocking you, just amused). Read up on the story of how eGroups was created (by Larry Page's brother, no less).

Everything under the sun's been done.

rizzn4• 17 years ago

eGroups was over ten years ago. Since then, a culture of VC reliance has been the dominant model, and now with increasing frequency, you're seeing bootstrapped companies emerge.

I think that was the point he was trying to make, not that it's never happened before.

gruseom• 17 years ago

Historical oneupmanship quickly turns into an infinite regression:

http://www.amazon.com/Bootstrap-Lessons-Learned-Building-Suc...

(Edit: the Amazon page doesn't make clear that the book, though published in 2001, is about a desktop software company from the early PC days.)

timcederman• 17 years ago

Yaron interviewed me at Google. It's funny how many people you continue to bump in to in the Valley...

Techcrunch50 Winner Redbeacon Tells Their Story

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