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Why do marketplaces make great businesses?

Austin Startup

One of the highest we saw in 2020 was Ke.com , a Chinese platform for buying and selling properties. It’s looking equally good for the bootstrapped and indie-funded marketplaces too. Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). In recent years we’ve seen mega-rounds of investment and sky-high valuations.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

I can’t wait to see what 2020 brings! What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 years of existence, and with the launch of a series A investment in 2020 I can only imagine how far we’ll go. My business is also nominated for a local award, a first for us. Lancaster ! #2-

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

ReadWriteStart

In 1M/1M, we have extensive expertise on bootstrapping e-commerce businesses, and will be happy to help her navigate the paths of customer acquisition, inventory, merchandising, and financing. Very cool concept, designed by an energy scientist, upon which J.J. wants to develop a mystery show. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

ReadWriteStart

We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. You can also use my blog to brainstorm.