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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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5 Steps for Entrepreneurs with an Idea, but No Funding

Up and Running

Start attending networking events and leverage people in your network to connect with a mentor. You never know—you may just get a potential investor out of it like Michael Litt , co-founder of Vidyard. However, most entrepreneurs do eventually need investments from external sources, and can’t rely on bootstrapping forever.

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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). Being distributed/network ready (even though Ethernet was just barely coming into use in the enterprise). Larry was loathe to sell any of the company stock; he generally took a dim view of VCs and preferred to bootstrap.