Tim Keane

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.  It seems to me that bootstrapping is an overlooked technique, and it should not be. 

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series).

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2008

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series).

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Tim Keane

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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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series).

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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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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

  Tomorrow, you're going to close your first professional investment with "Fred," a wealthy individual you met at a networking event.    Tomorrow, you're going to close your first professional investment with "Fred," a wealthy individual you met at a networking event.  October 2010.

Wisconsin 60

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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. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series).

Wisconsin 68

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Tim Keane

JULY 2, 2010

The Qualities of a Leader » July 02, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Wisconsin Angel Network Find Information about all of the networks in Wisconsin here! March 2011.

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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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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

JANUARY 11, 2013

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series).

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

« How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan | Main.     "In a networked world, trust is the most important currency."     "In a networked world, trust is the most important currency." October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. March 2011.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 5, 2010

Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations » January 05, 2010.   If you have an interest in learning about best practices in angel investing, and network with local angel investors, this is a not to be missed event. . Golden Angels Network. Golden Angels Network. October 2010.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. In other words they are entrepreneurs that help others like them succeed in their new business. Mailing lists/groups. Google Groups.

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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. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Wisconsin Angel Network Find Information about all of the networks in Wisconsin here!

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Tim Keane

MAY 20, 2010

People are the whole game » May 20, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Wisconsin Angel Network Find Information about all of the networks in Wisconsin here! March 2011.

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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.

Social Media 60

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Tim Keane

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series).

Wisconsin 60

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Tim Keane

MARCH 17, 2009

Bootstrap your venture » March 17, 2009. Certificate students will take 15-16 hours of coursework at Marquette, including three core entrepreneurship courses and two elective courses in a professional area such as business or engineering. Students must also complete a business plan. October 2010. March 2011.

Wisconsin 60

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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. . | Do we really need this help? Bottom Up Market Sizing.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 8, 2010

A philosophy of valuations and term-sheets » March 08, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Wisconsin Angel Network Find Information about all of the networks in Wisconsin here!

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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.  October 2010. March 2011.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

However, for most of the rest of us, the analytical skills honed in college or grad school, along with the opportunity to network and explore different fields prove invaluable later. 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).

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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. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. « Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 6, 2008

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series).

Wisconsin 60

Wisconsin Angel Investor Bootstrapping Startup 60

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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Wisconsin Marketing Angel Investor Startup 60

Tim Keane

MARCH 4, 2011

  Posted at 06:03 AM in Bootstrapping | Permalink. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Wisconsin Angel Network Find Information about all of the networks in Wisconsin here!

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

An entrepreneur will pitch their business plan to what they think is a group of angel investors and will get a number of follow-up calls afterwards, but they are pitches for services not investment interest. ► 2010. (7). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan (Financial Times Series).

Wisconsin 60

Wisconsin Angel Investor Bootstrapping Startup 60

Tim Keane

JUNE 8, 2009

Posted at 09:23 AM in Bootstrapping | Permalink. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Wisconsin Angel Network Find Information about all of the networks in Wisconsin here! March 2011.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

I'm just reading a post  from Wisbusiness.com  by Joe Kremer of the Wisconsin Angel Network. I'm just reading a post  from Wisbusiness.com  by Joe Kremer of the Wisconsin Angel Network. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. » September 17, 2009. March 2011. Categories.

Wisconsin 60

Wisconsin Valuation Angel Investor Startup 60

Tim Keane

APRIL 11, 2006

This is an overview prepared by the Marquette Golden Angels Network for entrepreneurs. This is an overview prepared by the Marquette Golden Angels Network for entrepreneurs. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

Wisconsin 60

Wisconsin Angel Investor Bootstrapping LLC 60

Tim Keane

JANUARY 14, 2009

" In some ways this is analogous to bootstrapping, where the first principle really is "go ask the potential customer if they like what you want to do."  " In some ways this is analogous to bootstrapping, where the first principle really is "go ask the potential customer if they like what you want to do." 

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. At SJSU, we also have a business plan competition in the spring, which ideally allows the students to build a viable business model around their NIF projects. ► 2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Technical Review Angel Investor 28