VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

In addition, Amazon launched two dedicated funds: Alexa Startups – The Alexa Startups team engages founders and investors through startup programs, business development, and technical support. AWS Marketplace Startup Program – the ‘app store’ for B2B startups who are interested to sell their product to AWS customers.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Slack is looking to build the B2B version of Clubhouse (Slack Virtual Hallways). Racket is very “bare bones” at the moment in terms of editing abilities, analytics, social features etc. 31 employees according to Linkedin, but seems to be bootstrapped. Bootstrapped. Stereo , launched in 2020 and is based in LA.

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Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. Startups provide introductions and Tony and fellow panelists provide feedback in real-time.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Startup Social Network 175

Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I’m a very risk adverse entrepreneur as a result of bootstrapping my first three businesses, almost failing on the fourth (Coremetrics) due to market timing (I was too early and didn’t predict the dot-com bust) and its overcapitalization, and being a mostly customer funded and very capital efficient on the fifth (Bazaarvoice). was failing.

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Advisory Board Cofounder Greece Bootstrapping 51

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Here’s the type of startups TechWildcatters is looking for: -Applications: B2B Web/Enterprise 2.0, BI/data/analytics, gaming/simulation, etc. Founders: Well-rounded founder teams >1 person, demonstrated understanding of entrepreneurship, relevant technical and business knowledge. Apply to TechWildcatters here.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Dallas Seed Capital Angel Investor 40

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Here’s the type of startups TechWildcatters is looking for: -Applications: B2B Web/Enterprise 2.0, BI/data/analytics, gaming/simulation, etc. Founders: Well-rounded founder teams >1 person, demonstrated understanding of entrepreneurship, relevant technical and business knowledge. Apply to TechWildcatters here.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Dallas Seed Capital Angel Investor 40

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The first step in Customer Development was Customer Discovery ; extracting hypotheses from the business plan and getting the founders out of the building to test the hypotheses in front of customers. Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Just as a refresher.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 262