1996 Angel Investor Bootstrapping Technical Review 
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2014
” 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. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. Suddenly I was a VC. An accidental one.
Professor VC
JUNE 6, 2008
Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. In most of these cases, the founder relinquished the CEO role within the first 18 months following institutional funding, but remained in a critical technical or visionary role, often as the companys external evangelist. How Much Diligence is Due.
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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2013
According to David Rose , CEO of Gust, venture capital investors funded about 1500 startups last year, with Angel investors backing over 50,000 more. Of course, with more startups, this is still a tough space, with VCs funding only one out of 400 requests they get, and Angels limiting their focus to one out of 40.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
According to Statistic Brain , angel investors, numbering almost 300,000, contributed a record $25 billion to early-stage startups in the U.S. With more startups, angels still limit their focus to about one out of 40 requests. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. million businesses in 2014.
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Broadly speaking, this action plan is going to be broken up into three sections: the testing plan, the execution plan, and the review section. Your forecast would have been for nothing.
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