Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2020

The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). Then you don’t have to worry about the fact that most angel investors and venture capitalists won’t take a bet on you if none of your friends and family have given you a vote of confidence with money.

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Management Cram Down Angel Investor Equity 308

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). Then you don’t have to worry about the fact that most angel investors and venture capitalists won’t take a bet on you if none of your friends and family have given you a vote of confidence with money.

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Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 148

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). Then you don’t have to worry about the fact that most Angel investors and venture capitalists won’t take a bet on you if none of your friends and family have given you a vote of confidence with money.

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Founder Cram Down Angel Investor Equity 254

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2013

The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). Then you don’t have to worry about the fact that most Angel investors and venture capitalists won’t take a bet on you if none of your friends and family have given you a vote of confidence with money.

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Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 230

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). Then you don’t have to worry about the fact that most angel investors and venture capitalists won’t take a bet on you if none of your friends and family have given you a vote of confidence with money.

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Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 120

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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Angel Investor Venture Capital Sweat Equity Cram Down 112

Tim Keane

AUGUST 20, 2009

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Or a paradise for investors? Are Investors Being Unreasonable?   If the entrepreneur can bootstrap.   (People I know are tired of hearing this, but we did bootstrap RTMS, Inc.

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Milwaukee Bootstrapping Cram Down Deal Structure 60