The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Yet, investors and analysts demand it. Whether a brand new bootstrapped startup or corporate giant, your altitude, sustainability, and traction has everything to do with your team. Smaller companies with hotter brands can make for great acquisitions. Acquiring revenues can be very important. Your Brand. A Great Story.

Intellectual Property 102

Intellectual Property IP Acquisition Startup 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Of course, if you are able to bootstrap your startup, and don’t anticipate the need for outside investors, you can technically ignore the first two points. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

Exit Strategy 264

Exit Strategy Private Equity Equity Technical Review 264

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Investment Bankers 241

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Of course, if you are able to bootstrap your startup, and don’t anticipate the need for outside investors, you can technically ignore the first two points. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

Exit Strategy 376

Exit Strategy Startup Private Equity Equity 376

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Investment Bankers 231

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Venture Capital 171

Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. This is obvious. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. This is obvious. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Gust

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Or is it still possible to bootstrap and build a company organically? There’s no better test of how well your idea works, nor any better way of iterating it to real market demand, than to watch how the checks come in. A gigantic percentage of startup literature concerns how to raise capital.

Intellectual Property 127

Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Dilution Bootstrapping 127

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

Subscription business brings recurring revenue. This allows you to enjoy a constant source of incoming revenue, as long as you’re keeping the subscribers satisfied (that is of course essential). Through customer acquisition, you’ll work to grow the revenue and then, use that revenue to cover operational costs.

Churn Rate 149

Churn Rate eCommerce Business Model Bootstrapping 149

Hippoland

MARCH 13, 2016

Do you bootstrap and attempt to raise again when you have made more progress? To be clear, growth means increased revenue or increased number of users/customers (or both!). It’s measured in revenue results. Could you turn $50M into $1B in revenue in the next 2 years? Below your target raise? Your target raise?

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage .Net Revenue Acquisition 48

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Of course, if you are able to bootstrap your startup, and don’t anticipate the need for outside investors, you can technically ignore the first two points. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

Exit Strategy 289

Exit Strategy Entrepreneur IPO Startup 289

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive. The sailboat startups don't invent a product out of pure imagination.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This mind-boggling number implies strong demand growth and demonstrates how engaged the userbase is. While they were initially bootstrapped, they had already raised over $200 million before this year began, gaining the coveted unicorn status back in July 2019. It helps that they are backed by some of social media’s biggest stars.

Venture Capital 169

Venture Capital Bootstrapping Valuation Social Media 169

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Of course, if you are able to bootstrap your startup, and don’t anticipate the need for outside investors, you can technically ignore the first two points. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

Equity 120

Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2015

Every entrepreneur has heard of the Lean Startup methodology ; it’s a great way to prove demand with less time and money and to prevent building a product that no one will want. Transit in your town may be more or less than this, but public transportation while you are bootstrapping is the way to go. shipping. .

New York City 60

New York City Web New York San Francisco 60

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Occipital — makers of the Structure Sensor for 3-D data acquisition. It sucks when it happens as you miss the window for servicing the demand that exists, but it’s a much better problem to have than to end up with a lot of excess inventory which doesn’t move. Should you do a Self-starter campaign for pre-orders?

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Especially if you’re optimizing your site for revenue, you should care about outliers. Though outliers will show up in many analysis situations, for the sake of conversion optimization, you should mostly be concern about tests where you’re optimizing for revenue metrics like Average Order Value or Revenue Per Visitor.

Distribution 48

Distribution Revenue Analytics Metrics 48

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

VC Cafe interviewed Engimai’s founder and CEO Adir Iakya to learn more about what it takes to bootstrap a SaaS business and how Enigmai is planning to go to market. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. VC Cafe: Let’s talk about revenue. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales?

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

VC Cafe interviewed Engimai’s founder and CEO Adir Iakya to learn more about what it takes to bootstrap a SaaS business and how Enigmai is planning to go to market. Adir: We are still a bootstrapped company. VC Cafe: Let’s talk about revenue. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales?

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”. link] Sunday links: « Colin J.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84