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TinySeed Applications Open January 18th

Software By Rob

And we received offers of support from successful founders who have raised funding, bootstrapped, and those who’ve done both: +1 on that! Einar went through YC in 2009 so he’s witnessed the benefits first-hand. Traditionally, venture capital has consisted of unicorn-hunting. 3: We Provide World-Class Mentorship.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. Add to this that 72.7% just my 2 cents.