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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. Would love to chat and see how/if we can help. — Rand Fishkin (@randfish) October 12, 2018.

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

techcrunch.com

The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. One independent expert on the VC industry told me recently that there really is no “venture capital” today, only “continuation capital. Y combinator is an example that VC’s should learn from. Translation?