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Startup CEO (OnlyOnce- the book!), Part III – Pre-Order Now

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Chapter 20: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Financing…Equity Investors, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Strategic Investors, Debt, Convertible Debt, Venture Debt, Bank Loans, Personal Debt, Bootstrapping, Customer Financing, Your Own Cash Flow. Chapter 27: Have You Learned Your Lesson?

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

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Well of course we’re focusing on this and that, and you can take a lot of times with frameworks or whatever, I say that doesn’t matter. I’m not going to read this to you, but swat, core competence and et cetera, these are ideas and the goal is focus and I really don’t care what framework.

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How to think about cash vs. equity compensation

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Hard to know, but an important question for a bootstrap startup to answer! Here’s a simple framework for how to come up with those numbers. This is the key, because Q — what an institutional investor would accept — is a well-understood system. What about $Y/mo?&#

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How to Handle Business Rejection by Investors in 10 Steps

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It teaches you how to deal with investors, what areas of your business need to be strengthened, and how to improve your pitch for the next meeting. It can be difficult to know where to start after an investor rejects your business proposal. Anything that demonstrates to angel investors that you are viable.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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In many ways, good technical co-founders and angel investors are looking for the same thing. You don’t know anyone, you don’t have experience, you don’t have traction and you don’t have investors. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup. Are frameworks the way to go ? Thanks again.

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Startup Resources

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Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. high-level Python framework. Venture Hacks Angel List â??

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.) Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Developers who understand and can execute on a business model.