SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
The very last email I got from him told me the following: Thank you for your time Tony, I understand everyone wants a huge salary, no risk and a cut of the profits. However, when I told him that the level of engagement required from me and the fact that equity-only development was required, he seemed to be a bit offended.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 17, 2012
Davis and his partners, Amit Aharoni and Nicolas Meunier, were members of Start-Up Chile's freshman class, arriving in August 2010. If we'd had to bootstrap it, I don't know if we could have done it," Davis says. When the six-month program ended, they returned to San Francisco. They raised $1.6
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www.mint.com
MARCH 9, 2010
However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. Your Money Questions Answered Mint.com on 07/07/2010 0 comments How Much Should I Tip? It’s freakin’ 2010. All Rights Reserved.
K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
couldn’t draw a salary). The latter was fine by me since there was no money in the company for me to draw a salary any way. I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc. in December 1996, while on a student visa.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 16, 2010
I wanted to share some of the questions I’ve found particularly useful for startups: What SaaS products are on the startup’s toolchain in 2010? How do bootstrapped companies hire talent? Short answer: we posted in Craigslist for “Founding Engineers&# when we were starting and couldn’t pay salaries.
grasshopper.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
July 29, 2010. Equity-based pay is often used by the founders of young start-ups who want to grow their businesses but cannot offer big salaries to qualified professionals. Funded companies are typically a safer bet than bootstrapped ventures for two important reasons. July 29, 2010. Pricing & Signup. Comments 1.
venturebeat.com
MARCH 8, 2011
In fact, any bootstrapped company should be aiming for slow, consistent growth rather than explosive growth. He was also a founding member of ITWatchdogs, another bootstrapped startup which became profitable and was sold, and is a mentor at Capital Factory. This story originally appeared on his blog.) This is not a bad thing.
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