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Starting Startups - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

  He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about.    He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about.  October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping.

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Fearless (Baseless) Predictions for 2014

Mucker Lab

Google finally fixes the problem with mobile (discovery, search, distribution, tracking, monetization, a/b testing) and races ahead while Apple waxes nostalgically for 2010. Huge funding gap appears for seed stage companies as seed stage VC firms look for series A traction and accelerators look for seed stage traction.

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Fearless (Baseless) Predictions for 2014

Mucker Lab

Google finally fixes the problem with mobile (discovery, search, distribution, tracking, monetization, a/b testing) and races ahead while Apple waxes nostalgically for 2010. Huge funding gap appears for seed stage companies as seed stage VC firms look for series A traction and accelerators look for seed stage traction.

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TechStars Data from 2007 to 2009

Feld Thoughts

million in seed-stage funding has been raised. 27 of 39 (~70%) TechStars companies have either raised outside funding after the program or bootstrapped to profitability. Applications for the TechStars Boulder 2010 program are still open until March 22, 2010 at 11:59:59 PM Mountain Time.

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101. Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Way. ► February. (1). A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ▼ January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► October. (2). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► September. (2).

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

Professor VC

Below is a short description of their philosophy: "The part of our philosophy that makes us most different from other startup investors is that we dont believe gut feel is a reliable indicator of potential at the seed stage. ► 2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101. Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Way.

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Technology versus market risk in angel investments - Startups and.

Tim Keane

 My advice was to execute with the big player by bootstrapping and then, as the market risk retires, to think about deploying outside capital.    Greg Gianforte at RightNow Technologies in Bozeman, Montana (recently sold to Oracle) is a famous proponent of bootstrapping for this exact reason. October 2010.