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.

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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.

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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.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship.

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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. You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. 11 Angel Investor Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

For every example of a successful company that proves a myth wrong, there will always be one that will prove it right, especially in today’s world of rapidly expanding technology and connectivity. When Larry and Sergey first began BackRub (which would eventually become Google), they didn’t run to a venture capital firm or angel investor.

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