Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000. Or, will you be guilty of depriving the VC community of well deserved gains, like the good folks at MailChimp and Kendra Scott seem to have done with their bootstrapped unicorns? Yes, that has multiple meanings!) Do the math. May you be disturbed.

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Silicon Valley Atlanta Software Review Early Stage 48

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. Coming from the financial world to the software world taught us a lot about bootstrapping and finding valuable outsourcing tools. What made you use crowdSPRING?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Suppose the goal of this particular company is to achieve $1m in annual revenue for a two-person bootstrapped startup, with a goal to be so efficient as to never have to hire employees, and therefore produce a terrific little business that nets each of them a few million dollars over the next ten years. Bigger markets make things easier.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. Note that some of those companies were bootstrapped, some bootstrapped and took money later, and some had huge funding from the start. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. Support.com — On 2.5m

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

It was bootstrapped.   It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida.   It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida.   He founded RightNow Technologies in a spare bedroom in his home in 14 years ago - by bootstrapping.

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Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

Four years after founding and bootstrapping Mucker Capital , we are pleased to announce the close of a new $45 million fund, Mucker III. The macroeconomic conditions of 2000, 2008 or even 2016 — none of that matters to them. This is our third fund, which might make us seem like grumpy, rich, old VCs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2012

David Heinemeier Hansson doesn’t deserve to be alive either for instance — he makes millions of dollars at his bootstrapped, profitable, beloved business , he’s honored by geeks for creating Ruby on Rails , he’s a New York Times best-selling author and a race car driver, and all this with a 30-hour work-week.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 15, 2015

That said, because I know that it may be challenging for our portfolio companies to raise from downstream investors, so it will be extra important for me to believe that companies I invest in will 1) Survive even without downstream capital and 2) Will have the traction to potentially bootstrap for a while if need be. Keep your burn low.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

VC Cafe interviewed Engimai’s founder and CEO Adir Iakya to learn more about what it takes to bootstrap a SaaS business and how Enigmai is planning to go to market. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. Competitors charge something approximately $2000-$3000 for what we deliver for free at the moment.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

VC Cafe interviewed Engimai’s founder and CEO Adir Iakya to learn more about what it takes to bootstrap a SaaS business and how Enigmai is planning to go to market. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. Competitors charge something approximately $2000-$3000 for what we deliver for free at the moment.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

For example, the Hot or Not rating website founded in the fall of 2000 was merely a “what if” thought for James Hong and Jim Young on a Friday night. The rise of venture incubators – Practically any business can be bootstrapped, but in some cases it can be a long, long runway. Oh how times have changed.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). But the enterprise software bootstrapping past was based on upfront license fees where the customer took the financing risk. SaaS transfers risk from the buyer to the seller.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

It’s also financially rewarding, with up to $2000 in rewards for a great idea. GuruStorms has been completely bootstrapped thus far. For gurus, this is a great way for them to further extend their brand and monetize their expertise. It’s online and ad hoc, so they can fit it in when they have time.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 18, 2011

Rates have been in turmoil over this time period, with two periods of significant decline -- one around 2000 when the dot.com bubble created an inflated number of start-ups which was followed by the dot.com bust -- and another decline in start-ups began when the current recession began. And what about bootstrapping?

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I was previously a founder of Bizmetric in 2000 (your firm chose not to invest) and am now working on a startup using 3D architectural visualization for green building. Bootstrapping 101. February 15, 2008 2:08 PM. Anonymous said. Steve, I was pleasantly surprised to find your blog when researching startup financing. ► July. (1).

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Bootstrapping (= Consulting) Some would-be founders may by now be thinking, why deal with investorsat all? We could not have bootstrapped Viaweb, for example. Bootstrapping sounds great in principle, but this apparently verdantterritory is one from which few startups emerge alive. Startupslive or die on morale. Be independent.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

Investment Capital When setting out to launch my online business, I had to bootstrap my way and set a limit on expenses. If you’ve been in your online business for over ten years, you’ll recall the ‘dot bomb’ catastrophe of 2000, and how the ridiculous “freebies for eyeballs&# concept imploded spectacularly.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). You can bootstrap your way into existence. Dec 26, 2009). believe that is certainly true.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. I have around 2000 emails to verify. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program. endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Awsome post btw. Yalcin Great list.

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

The later stage guys may see a pickup about the same time as the Series A guys but I suspect it will take longer (like the recovery after the 2000 crash). The early stage investors are going to take a huge hit since many of their portfolio companies will be capital starved and will be forced out of business or into fire sales.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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