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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. .” I’d say – very bluntly – “stay away from VCs.”

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

As early as 1994, he had guessed that the Internet would be the next boom, and people would prefer to buy things online in the future. Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an image that resonates with me when I think about what makes a successful entrepreneur, and Carnegie definitely represents that image.

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

When I started investing in companies that were building Web apps in 1994, it was once again all HTML / source code and examples everywhere. While Clarion was compiled, it still came with a solid library of example code, although we quickly built our own libraries that we used throughout the company as we grew.

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Box launches Box Accelerator as its COO reflects on working with young entrepreneurs

The Next Web

Young entrepreneurs can benefit from more experienced business people joining their teams at critical points in their journey, but often when a company has been nurtured and bootstrapped, ensuring that the balance is correct can be a tough call and early stage entrepreneurs can be loath to give up so much control.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #9: How, and why, to ask for help

Austin Startup

minute long interview with Steve Jobs from 1994 has been floating around the Web recently and I love it. They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps?—?except This lesson is all about how to ask for help— and why people will answer the call if you do it right. They took on the world’s greatest modern empire and they prevailed.

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Twitter Link Roundup #292 – Ideas and Info For Small Business, Startups, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is a quintessential genre film from 1994. 7 Best Alternatives to Bootstrap crowdspring.co/1Lc9obb. Could this be my favorite movie of the past 25 years? Is this my favorite television series of all time? I should say so. Is It Worth Paying For a Premium WordPress Theme or Not? crowdspring.co/1VB44AO.