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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Gust

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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8 Key Processes Distinguish a Business From a Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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‘Out of Control’ Startups Fail on 8 Key Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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Eight Business Processes Every Startup Must Have

Startup Professionals Musings

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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Grants for Startup Businesses: What You Need to Know

Board Effect

Using Databases to Find Grants. Databases can be a good place to find individuals and groups that offer grants. There may be thousands of grantors listed and the databases can be confusing to use. The most popular method of funding is plain-old self-funding, which is also called bootstrapping.

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

Portability (databases had previously been shackled to the specific machines they ran on). 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. Back then he advocated for. Larry just blew them away.