Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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MAY 27, 2010

Choosing the right corporate form for your enterprise » May 27, 2010. Remarks to the Visionary Companies Conference, Billings, MT May 27, 2010 It’s a fact that all net job creation since the 1980s has come    with under 100 employees. It was bootstrapped. It was bootstrapped. People are the whole game.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Posted at 05:09 PM in Managing Company Growth | Permalink. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Pricing strategy is a big topic. TrackBack URL for this entry: [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. Still, this manager is going to spend the company’s money, and needs to be held accountable. So far, so good.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Sunday, August 15, 2010. After a few months, the demo site won a business plan competition. 29 comments: Work Equality Aug 15, 2010 04:24 PM I think you hit the nail on the head - any programmer that is good at what they do, will only donate so much of their time without pay. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Real Advice.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Mint is the best way to manage your money. This is how you can determine if the company management is optimistic (good), delusional (sometimes good, often necessary), or just plain pathological liars (always bad). Your Money Questions Answered Mint.com on 07/07/2010 0 comments How Much Should I Tip? Live your life.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. First develop a business model.   If you've been through a plan review with someone like a potential investor, think for a moment about the questions you get asked. How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. October 2010.

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Tim Keane

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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Tim Keane

JULY 2, 2010

The Qualities of a Leader » July 02, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Jokes aside, the top-down approach has its place in business plans and pitch decks commonly used to ask people for money. Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. I tend to ballpark it at 50%.

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Monday, October 11, 2010. October 13, 2010 6:38 PM. October 18, 2010 2:41 PM. I'd be happy to send you our business plan, exec summary, and ppt. October 19, 2010 1:28 PM. ▼ 2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Steve Bennet. at 11:35 PM.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 11, 2013

  I digress here, but one of the real challenges is managing sales goals both agressively and realistically.   I digress here, but one of the real challenges is managing sales goals both agressively and realistically. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. « Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Market Math » September 30, 2010. I'm in Dublin this week and was at the Halo Business Angel Network meeting on Monday evening. Are focused on business success and are proactive in defining their own role going forward to maximize their contribution to the venture. October 2010. September 2010.

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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.  Students must also complete a business plan. October 2010. September 2010.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

.   I talked to a company recently that had market risk in the educational business but also had a distribution agreement with a big player.  My advice was to execute with the big player by bootstrapping and then, as the market risk retires, to think about deploying outside capital.        Search.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

« How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan | Main. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Startups and angels: Along the way to success.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What did the company do when we heard customer input that contradicted our business plan and assumptions? Reply Does the Lean Startup revolutionize bootstrapped marketing? As often happens in a startup, we confused our own vision and passion with the passion of our potential customers. More in the next post.

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Tim Keane

MAY 16, 2010

Last Time I Checked, Greed Was Not A Virtue » May 16, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery.

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Tim Keane

MAY 20, 2010

People are the whole game » May 20, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations » January 05, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. « How To Change The World | Main.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

That is a mistake and I’m going to teach you how to get to the nitty-gritty of that, so that you make sure that the day you open your business you know who your target customer is. We’re also going to talk about developing a business plan. I want you to have a plan for success, so we’re going to talk about that.

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Tim Keane

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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Tim Keane

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

» February 03, 2010. OVP Venture Partners) My own take on this is that a business plan with a bottom up forecast demonstrates an understanding of the potential market that investors love.  October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Bottom Up Market Sizing.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Leaving a Trail » October 04, 2010. If your business sells to a quantifiable and identifiable group of business customers who are in the tens of thousands, or less, there's really no reason not to individually identify every one of them and track all of your contacts with them. October 2010. September 2010.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 8, 2010

A philosophy of valuations and term-sheets » March 08, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

May 14, 2010 10:56 PM. June 3, 2010 9:50 AM. November 11, 2010 9:52 AM. November 11, 2010 1:56 PM. ► 2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101. Ideas exist there (Groupon) but most never get past the concept stage because there is no outreach for students to get their idea off the ground. Steve Bennet.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 6, 2008

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 4, 2011

  Posted at 06:03 AM in Bootstrapping | Permalink. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money.   And finally realize that you leave a trail. Leaving a Trail.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. You know how to product manage and you’ve hired programmers before. Have Domain Expertise.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? Investors love entrepreneurs who understand their business model, and can describe it accurately. And when they meet entrepreneurs that cant, it is often a sign that the management team needs strengthening - at a minimum. Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? March 2011.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 8, 2009

Posted at 09:23 AM in Bootstrapping | Permalink. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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