Five Strategies for Building a Bootstrapped Product

By Jessica Cahail, Deb Boyer, Tyler Gilcrest and Stephanie Thome on July 28th, 2020

Without taking on copious outside investment, we have to support our products with only a share of our available time and resources. Here are five strategies we use to build successful bootstrapped products.

Without Local News, I Can’t Do My Job

By Stephanie Thome on December 5th, 2019

The Cicero Team often relies on local news websites to keep our elected official data up to date. However, local news is on the decline and websites are harder to navigate. This post discusses the impact the lack of local election results may have on civic engagement.