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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

ReadWriteStart

And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. Rick is looking at Medi-Code as an investment opportunity from his angel group, and Rohit is the entrepreneur. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! At the same time, it became clear that bootstrapping further was not an option our team could pursue.