Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

RCSMs premise is that they can reach an investment decision (and valuation) based on an application completed by the founders and take gut feel out of the decision process. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1). ► May. (1). Can you start a company on $10K?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

Sunday, January 27, 2008. We will also look at a variety of financing methods including venture capital, angel investing, licensing, franchising, roll-up, venture debt and my old favorite, bootstrapping. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thursday, November 13, 2008. This got me thinking about the business model that Mike Keiser has built at the resort and a lecture began to form in my head. Mike Keiser (the founder of Recycled Paper Greetings) had a vision to create a true links experience in the US. Labels: Bandon Dunes , business models , golf.

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Friday, June 6, 2008. It seems appropriate to have this discussion as Kent Desormeaux grabs Big Browns reins and goes after the Triple Crown tomorrow at Belmont.There is an age old debate in the venture business on whether it is better to bet on the horse (business/market) or the jockey (management team/founders).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Tuesday, February 12, 2008. I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. I first met Jeff about 8 years ago when he was finishing his first year at the Stanford GSB and was beginning to raise money for a business plan he developed for a secondary market ticket exchange.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. There needs to be enough equity to go around for founders, early investors, later investors, and employees.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1). ► May. (1). Can you start a company on $10K? ► March. (1).

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Friday, April 11, 2008. Not to worry, I was busy working on closing the Series B financing for iControl Networks. I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Tuesday, February 26, 2008. As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship with the students. Dan Gordon, founder of Gordon Biersch , came by my class this week. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14).

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

I will be speaking on a related topic next week at an SVASE event in Palo Alto, " Founders vs. Investors - Are we all on the same page " Hope to see some of you there and promise I wont show up in my pajamas. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). Steve Bennet. at 11:15 AM. Email This BlogThis! ► July. (1). ► May. (1).

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

(PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 24, 2008

» March 24, 2008. Heres an interesting proposition for a new medical diagnostic business. You (the entrepreneur and founder of this "company") hire a call center to take calls from customers who want an inexpensive medical diagnosis. Heres an interesting proposition for a new medical diagnostic business.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14).

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. If you are interested in getting involved in the E-Lab, there are a few opportunities. Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

investment bankers, while the dot com bubble was driven by investment bankers willing and able to convince institutional and retail investors that companies didn''t need to have a business model or even a way to exist without relying on additional investment. No, the question today is not whether these unicorns are viable businesses.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Ill share a few points about how we were successful, but most of the credit goes to Benjamin Wayne , founder and CEO of Fliqz, a passionate, strategic and tactical executive. Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). Steve Bennet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

I continue to work on additional programs and products for bootstrapped and angel-backed startups, as well as for enterprise and future entrepreneurs. I love the business model. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. We are really looking forward to this.one day wasn't enough! Great idea.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Techcrunch called it one of the " most like-minded and forward-thinking acquisitions I’ve ever seen " I met with the founders of CardMunch several months ago when they were out raising their Series Seed round. This is a cool way to solve the stack of business cards sitting on your desk and through geocoding lets you know where you met.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Ive written about this before and I certainly wasnt the only one, but what a great business. That is well over 10% of capacity and certainly answers the chicken and egg question founder Jeff Fluhr was asked many times in the early days. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct.

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Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

Labels: bootstrapping , business plans , entrepreneurship. We have invested a combination of ~$20K in founder financing and ~$200k in vendor financing. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. 2 comments: Dave. Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The formula will be based on the founders experience, schools they attended and other background information to gauge the likelihood of success. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning. Hope to see you there!

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

According to the Business Insider, he was actually arrested in a different place and time. Co-founder Dustin Moscovitz is referred to as a programmer, but he is actually an operations guy. Several weeks after Zuckerberg and the team move to Palo Alto for the summer, co-founder Eduardo Saverin finally pays a visit. Newer Post.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

On the topic of business models, Spencer proposed building traffic and then selling the company, which I pushed back on. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. About Sramana Mitra.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Jacob went from intern to our head of marketing in Europe and today he is the co-founder and CEO of Wisecrack , a company we are proud to be backers of. They not only invented business models, they also invented a new form of government, which was incredibly radical for that time. They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps?—?except

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D. Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs mistakenly often engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Stackoverflow was created in 2008. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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