Glossary of Bootstrapping Terms
Are you overwhelmed by the terminology bootstrappers use regarding MVPs, SERPs, JTBD and the like?
Wonder no more.
Here's an ever-expanding glossary, very much an evolving document, of terminology used when bootstrapping your products.
- 80/20 Principle
- A record
- A/B
- AAAA Record
- Alpha Testing
- API
- ARR
- B2B
- B2C
- B2G
- Beta Testing
- Booster
- Bootstrapped
- BOS
- CAC
- ccTLD
- Cloud
- CLTV
- CNAME record
- Coddiwomple
- Competition
- Competitions
- Concierge Onboarding
- Content Marketing
- CRAP
- CTA
- CTR
- DC
- Digital Products
- Diseconomy of Scale
- DKIM
- DNS
- DNS Records
- Dogfooding
- Domain
- DR
- Drip-fed email course
- DRM
- EBomb
- Economy of Scale
- Educational Content Marketing
- Elevator Pitch
- Entrepornography
- Expenses
- Fear of failure
- Founder
- Freemium
- Fulfillment
- Funding
- Funnel
- git
- GTD
- gTLD
- Guerilla Marketing
- HA
- hg
- High-Touch Sales
- Hobby
- IDE
- Idea Generation
- Idea Validation
- Ideas
- Inbound-Marketing
- Indie
- IP
- IPEP
- ISV
- JTBD
- Landing page
- Launch
- Limited Company
- LLC
- Long Tail
- Loss Leader
- Low-Touch Sales
- LSI
- MeWare
- Micro-ISV
- Micro-SaaS
- MRR
- MVC
- MVP
- MX Record
- NDA
- Niche market
- NPV
- null product
- Opportunity Cost
- Outbound-Marketing
- PAD
- Pareto Principle
- Passive income
- PCI DSS
- Perfectionism
- Pick a Fight
- POC
- PPC
- Productization
- Profit
- Prospect
- Ramen Profitable
- Rate of Return
- RC
- Registrar
- Revenue
- ROI
- SaaS
- Sales Funnel
- Scratch Your Own Itch
- Seed Capital
- SEO
- SERP
- Shipping
- Side Hustle
- Sneezer
- Soft Launch
- Solopreneur
- Solo SaaS
- Squeeze page
- StartUp
- Stinker
- Super Booster
- TAM
- TLS/SSL
- True Fans
- TTL
- TXT record
- UI
- uISV
- USP
- Utility
- UVP
- UX
- Validation
- Value
- Wantrepreneurs
- Zero-Touch Sales
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