Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Most of these scenarios involve attracting outside investors, strategic partners, or key team members: You are the team and you don’t need outside funding. Tiny bootstrapped teams usually don’t have a business plan, and probably don’t need one. You need an investor, and want a document to mass-mail to everyone.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Most of these scenarios involve attracting outside investors, strategic partners, or key team members: You are the team and you don’t need outside funding. Tiny bootstrapped teams usually don’t have a business plan, and probably don’t need one. You need an investor, and want a document to mass-mail to everyone.
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Professor VC
MARCH 10, 2009
Bootstrapping 101. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. ProfessorVC. Steve Bennet.
Tim Keane
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Angels like to invest in deals that come to them through people they know. A low burn rate is a pearl of great price. Angels and Advisors. Categories.
Professor VC
MAY 29, 2008
What does it take to be an Angel Investor? To the SEC, it means that you are an accredited investor and To the man (or woman) on the street, a minimum qualification would seem to be an interest and ability to invest in early stage ventures. I think this sentiment has given angel groups a bad name. Bootstrapping 101.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 18, 2012
That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. No need to make the assumption that you will need a rich uncle or an angel investor for every idea you come up with. No office space rental, no secretary, and no accountant are required. Technology costs.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 1, 2010
Content companies, for example, should be able to amass traffic and sell advertising on a bootstrapped budget before they come close to seeking equity financing—because you can, and because that’s the market expectation and that’s what your competitors are already doing. Do you have a Bose radio at home?
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