Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2010

27 of 39 (~70%) TechStars companies have either raised outside funding after the program or bootstrapped to profitability. Some of the pertinent summary data follows: In three years, about $16.5 million in seed-stage funding has been raised. TechStars companies currently employ 156 people.

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nickpoint.co.uk

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We found Keegan through 99Designs and used him for our logo , business cards , Launch page and a new blog for Bootstrapping. 6 Responses to “5 Startup Steps to finding & working with freelancers&# Ben Says: April 12, 2009 at 9:42 pm | Reply Interesting post! Surgery Says: April 16, 2009 at 8:45 pm | Reply [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. April 14, 2009 4:03 PM Dave McClure said. thats SNL Jan 1976: [link] April 15, 2009 2:00 AM Matt Prados said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. March 16, 2009 11:18 PM William Pietri said. March 17, 2009 9:21 AM Eric said. March 17, 2009 9:39 AM Mike Tobias said. Just a thought.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

He’s now worth over a billion pounds, has his own TV Show (The Apprentice), and was granted a Peerage to become a Lord in 2009. Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an image that resonates with me when I think about what makes a successful entrepreneur, and Carnegie definitely represents that image. 18- Kate Page.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

The company, which started up in 2009 , has grown steadily over the past three years, expanding by an average of 60% annually. Gesto decided to scale InvGate after bootstrapping for the past 14 years. CEO and co-founder of InvGate Ariel Gesto says the company will continue to expand this year.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 20, 2009

. | If you like snipe hunts, join the boy scouts » April 20, 2009. Bootstrap your venture. At last week's Business Plan Competition at Marquette University , the keynote speaker, Greg Gianforte, CEO of Right Now , talked passionately about the keys to bootstrapping businesses.  Bootstrap your venture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. February 9, 2009 7:45 PM Joseph Flahiff said. I am extending it to all start-ups.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

As an entrepreneur it means bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap. The investment won’t work if you spend $80K on legal fees preparing investment documents that include things like registration rights and all those other terms that will never get used. Spend nickels like they were manhole covers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. Paul June 6, 2009 8:34 PM Nick Shepheard said. June 8, 2009 1:16 AM Colin said. June 8, 2009 6:11 AM Jason said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Between 2009 and 2013, 60% of the jobs created were from small businesses. Avoid the bootstrap trap. by Jenny Kassan, author of “ Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul “ Startups are part of the American Dream, and small businesses play a key role in economic growth.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Look out for bootstrapped CarGurus , one of the leading used-car properties, targeting over $150M in revenue this year. After years of writing the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech, first as a series of link roundups ( here’s my very first , from 2009), and now as this site (and its 2.0 Want the next TripAdvisor or Wayfair?

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

How To Change The World » December 14, 2009. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Does the world need "tough" entrepreneurial coaches? Starting Startups.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. November 30, 2009 10:46 AM charliepark said.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I started my healthcare company in 2009, at the height of the recession. Without venture capital, without external loans, I bootstrapped my business and brought it to acquisition – in a field traditionally dominated by males ( 16% of male entrepreneurs are in the tech industry, compared to 4% of females ).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. Note that some of those companies were bootstrapped, some bootstrapped and took money later, and some had huge funding from the start. But really, are all those acquirers so stupid?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

Building the Company: Pre-YC It was late 2009 and I was working a full-time gig for the State of Texas running Texas A&M System’s website. We had bootstrapped to the point where my co-founder was already working 100% with the company, and I was closely behind. This is not that story; this is how OwnLocal got into Y Combinator.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

And there's DailyMotion , which is eating into YouTube's market share and had a 70% jump in US traffic in 2009. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders? They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation. But what about the little guys?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Those general managers are entrepreneurs , too. Those general managers are entrepreneurs , too.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Reply Richard Jordan , on November 5, 2009 at 3:36 pm Said: Steve, best article yet. Reply links for 2009-11-05 « Blarney Fellow , on November 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm Said: [.] Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-11-05 , on November 5, 2009 at 5:11 pm Said: [.]

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 10, 2012

A 2009 post that’s withstood the test of time; I still like it. This is another 2009 post. 10 lessons learned in 22 years of bootstrapping. Links into certain pages affect these results. So here are the 10 favorite posts, based on page views: 8 factors that make a good business plan. 10 traits of successful entrepreneurs.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 17, 2009

Bootstrap your venture » March 17, 2009. Marquette University today approved the creation of a Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship , which will be offered through the Graduate School of Management starting in fall 2009.  Bootstrapping. « How does your marketing react to the economic crisis?

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009. November 19, 2009 8:17 PM. November 20, 2009 8:26 AM. November 21, 2009 6:58 PM. December 29, 2009 9:11 AM. ▼ 2009. (7). Bootstrapping 101. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Or are there core values at all? Steve Bennet.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

"         Eric Schmidt ,  University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. .    "In a networked world, trust is the most important currency."

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Startups – especially bootstrapped startups – typically don’t have funds to hire SEO experts and must find ways to execute SEO strategies on their own. And of course there are many SEO “experts&# who give the SEO industry a bad name (just as there are bad designers, lawyers, doctors, cops, etc.).

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I first captured this pattern in my notebook in early 2009, but I didn’t have enough data to be confident in the theory. I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

► 2009. (7). Bootstrapping 101. Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns? ► November. (1). Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? ► October. (1). Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine. ► September. (1). Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1). ► May. (1). Can you start a company on $10K?

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Up and Running

JUNE 30, 2010

What it shows is the total amount of investment money managed by venture capital firms, in billions of dollars, from 1982 through 2009. Hooray for bootstrapping. He links in that post to this presentation , with even more data, from which I took this chart: Thanks Scott, that’s very eloquent.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee » December 30, 2009. from a new social entrepreneurship Honors Symposium, “How To Change The World,” Fall, 2009 at Marquette University). from a new social entrepreneurship Honors Symposium, “How To Change The World,” Fall, 2009 at Marquette University). Bootstrapping.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program Over the past few months, I have been engaged in another customer discovery exercise with passionate early adopters of the lean startup methodology. August 9, 2009 10:28 AM Chris said. August 9, 2009 11:09 AM Anonymoussaid.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I first captured this pattern in my notebook in early 2009, but I didn’t have enough data to be confident in the theory. I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

► 2009. (7). Bootstrapping 101. Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns? ► November. (1). Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? ► October. (1). Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine. ► September. (1). 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

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. ► 2009. (7). Bootstrapping 101. Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns? ► November. (1). Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

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