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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Bootstrapping 101. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. What is bootstrapping? So, what does it mean to bootstrap a company? Bootstrapping involves launching a business on a low budget. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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ProfessorVC: Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

Professor VC

Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Got around to seeing The Social Network this past weekend. I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider. ► 2009. (7).

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How Link in Bio became the new online real estate for the creator economy

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In Oct 2009, during the web 2.0 explosion, when new social networks were popping up on a weekly basis, About.me ” Bootstrapped and Global from Day One: The Story of Linktree. As social media fragmentation continues to grow, the need for better linking a number of pages to a single person has become more clear.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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I’ve managed to contact two serial entrepreneurs by email, give them the pitch, and both of them agreed with me but commented that it would be a challenge to set up. Infiltrate the social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and then try to connect face-to-face. says: July 10, 2009 at 11:17 am fantastic article.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. These are managed by various wealth management entities ( Conseils en gestion de patrimoine indépendents , or CGPI). And there's DailyMotion , which is eating into YouTube's market share and had a 70% jump in US traffic in 2009.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

Didnt get the chance to ask him if managed to visit Berkeley while he was in town and see the 52-7 whupping that the Buffs took at the hands of Cal. Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?