2008 Bootstrapping Revenue Software Review 
The Entrepreneurial Mind
AUGUST 3, 2010
Such facilities can take a lot of cash to launch due to the cost of facility rent and equipment costs, and the aspiring entrepreneur had no ready source of cash. Once the bootstrapped launch of the play center is cash flow positive, all kinds of options for growing and expanding emerge. million in 2008 with about $3 million in profit.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. GrillGrate.
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ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 7, 2010
At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Next Igor Protsenko presented Profitero , an enterprise software product for helping retailers with price comparison and optimization.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.
ReadWriteStart
MARCH 17, 2011
Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.
Austin Startup
MARCH 20, 2018
Besides, getting into Y Combinator is easy: just be wicked smart, create a beautiful product, get millions of users, and build a revenue stream that grows 20% every month. If you remember 2008, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Our idea was to fix journalism by monetizing it, and our software was already doing just that.
Professor VC
JULY 31, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008. I assembled textbook chapters, Harvard Business Review articles, cases, and notes to pull together my own textbook. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue.
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