ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. Bootstrapping 101. We ended up raising $15.5M, led by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins. This got me thinking about my role in helping companies grow up. Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1).

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San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Balance Sheet 28

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Staged financing gives investors options in deciding whether and when to invest more and gives entrepreneurs options in how much to raise and when to think about exiting. While bootstrapping, there are multiple options from doing as a side project, changing the business, raising angel or venture, etc. Bootstrapping 101.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. Of 1M/1M he says, “The value of your program is amazing.

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