Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . We bootstrapped it. There were no investors. We took out lines of credit on our homes; we maxed out credit cards.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Larry was loathe to sell any of the company stock; he generally took a dim view of VCs and preferred to bootstrap. Angel investor Don Lucas had his office above ours. There we were, right under their noses! Sequoia Capital eventually invested just a little in us).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . We bootstrapped it. There were no investors. We took out lines of credit on our homes; we maxed out credit cards.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. & Raising Capital Pitch Perfect 4 ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor Raising Money Using Customer Development Due Diligence Checklist Term Sheet Archives (from Brad [.]

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