K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
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 hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 to attend Carnegie Mellon University.
www.singlefounder.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The need to hire another employee meant the need for another desk, another computer, and more equipment that my home office simply couldn’t handle. I also ran out of room for all of my equipment, and the power goes out for an excess of 5 hours almost once a month. So, yes I think I had ample justification for getting an office.
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
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. 1992 Recommendations. Subscriber Content Read Preview. 176 Recommendations.
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