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[INTERVIEW] Peter Tassiopoulos, President Of Sphere 3D Inc.

YoungUpstarts

“But I’ve also dealt with many successful entrepreneurs who were exposed to that model for bootstrapping and trying new ventures through their parents and others close to them,” he adds. “I Peter Tassiopoulos has focused on finance, technology and startups since 1992.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. I figured I would share some of the background of this story here, as it may help make a case for the Founders Visa movement.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. . Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. 1992 Recommendations. Legal Services.

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Transcript of How to Transform Your Company Into an Inbound Organization

Duct Tape Marketing

That’s the accounting department and finance not understanding inbound, and not understanding buyers. They had no choice but to build their company this way, because they were bootstrapping. You talked about legal, but finance is a great one. It could’ve been made in 1992 by some graphic artist.