Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Apply to local angel investor groups. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Fund your startup yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return. So my message to entrepreneurs is to tune your approach and your expectations accordingly.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2019

Angel investors. An angel investor is an accredited investor who uses his or her own money to invest in a small business. Not just anyone can be an angel investor, though. I myself have served as an angel investor for some companies. Self-funding or “bootstrapping.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2017

This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return. So my message to entrepreneurs is to tune your approach and your expectations accordingly.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

If you decide to be an angel investor, your overall return will likely conform to the public market averages and your peer group unless you find that unicorn that makes you the smartest investor in the room. Might your company be the bell-ringer that makes one of them a big winner? I wish you all the best for the New Year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return. So my message to entrepreneurs is to tune your approach and your expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Apply to local angel investor groups. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Fund your startup yourself.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally generated funds. Professional angels: This is the arena where I work and play.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2012

This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return. So my message to entrepreneurs is to tune your approach and your expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2011

This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return. So my message to entrepreneurs is to tune your approach and your expectations accordingly.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 25, 2019

Community Schemes. Numerous Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) have been established around the country for helping individuals as well as businesses that have a difficult time accessing, or have been previously denied credit from lending organizations and banks. Bootstrapping/Organic Growth.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2019

Reach out to an investor. Even with the most strategic business models and innovative financial approach, some businesses generally require hefty startup costs, which means, bootstrapping and asset-based loans might prove abortive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Apply to local Angel investor groups. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Fund your startup yourself.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2015

This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the Angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return. So my message to entrepreneurs is to tune your approach and your expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2010

This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return. I’m always impressed with entrepreneurs who pitch how they plan to bootstrap an idea, but if you need a million dollars, you better have a vision.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. In terms of who is here and what does get funded, the average entrepreneur spends way too much time doing after investors that have a shingle on their door that says angel investor or VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

One of the biggest myths I have found in the entrepreneur community is that every startup needs one or more outside investors for credibility and success, and perhaps is even entitled to at least one. The right investor also changes as you move through the different startup stages.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book is part of the Startup Revolution series that Brad has been working on for a couple years now, including Do More (Even) Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life (with two more to come, Startup Boards and Startup Metrics). questions”. Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected!

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2018

Earlier this year at the FUND Conference in Austin, Texas, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2018

They are athletes that perform day-in and day-out, over and over again, to keep the Austin startup community running. The Accelerator is the nervous system that is constantly making connections between all of the entrepreneurs, mentors, investors and VIP’s. The Capital Factory staff are the muscles that make it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Apply to local Angel investor groups. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Fund your startup yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

It does happen once in a while, but usually only for entrepreneurs who have already spent money promoting their efforts, and a large amount of precious time connecting with their peers and the investment community. Don’t believe the myth that finding outside investors is easy, an entitlement or even necessary.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2022

If the investment community doesn’t invest in a plan, there may well be some very good reasons why not. Anything that demonstrates to angel investors that you are viable. And if funding of any kind isn’t in the cards, you shouldn’t discount bootstrapping your business. Common business investment rejection reasons.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. With the exit, the entrepreneur and the original angel investors become fantastically rich and are lauded far and wide. Venture capitalists Have Very Different Objectives than Angel Investors.

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Board Effect

JUNE 10, 2019

In some areas, communities offer a business incubator that offers assistance to startups, such as free business space, consulting and seed funding. These services may be provided in conjunction with a university, by community development departments or by large companies.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

It was about building a community, and people who show up to those things have a heightened interest in Meebo." Every university makes efforts to get interconnected with the entrepreneur community," Zwilling says. Once, one of Meebos founders even played JavaScript bingo with people who showed up.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. In other words, these are angels looking for billion dollar opportunities as well.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

We will also look at a variety of financing methods including venture capital, angel investing, licensing, franchising, roll-up, venture debt and my old favorite, bootstrapping. As an angel investor and start-up CFO, I should have a good vantage point. Bootstrapping 101. What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Touched by an Angel. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. Bootstrapping 101. ► July. (1).

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Tim Keane

MARCH 4, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Spend ten minutes talking to any investor in the community who sees a lot of deals and inevitably you find that the companies that've been around are largely the same. Angels and Advisors.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

It could be a good business to bootstrap the social/mobile edutainment business with. Last up, Alvin Yuen from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pitched Techsailor , a services company that provides online community engagement to major brands. Alvin seems perturbed by the fact that his business is largely services and not as much products.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business. Since then, Ive been involved with creating and funding hundreds of companies both as an angel investor and a VC (now at Foundry Group). Yes, 10 dollars.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

According to David Rose , CEO of Gust, venture capital investors funded about 1500 startups last year, with Angel investors backing over 50,000 more. Of course, with more startups, this is still a tough space, with VCs funding only one out of 400 requests they get, and Angels limiting their focus to one out of 40.

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