Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. We called them founder space, round tables, and we'd meet, I'd introduce 'em to angel investors and marketing experts and lawyers, and really try to help them get off the ground. So I know what it's like.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. Larry was loathe to sell any of the company stock; he generally took a dim view of VCs and preferred to bootstrap. Back then he advocated for.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 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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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 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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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

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. Your Realistic Options Most people find themselves here.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Its amazing how fast this happens, especially in companies with short product development cycles in non-medical industries. Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping. October 2010.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Most VCs and angel investors are looking to invest in individuals that have a proven track record of prior success. After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Great post!

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « How do you present your venture to an investor? When you get to the point in the discussion where projections are relevant, there is a drill-down method here used by virtually every investor.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. The product development cycle was excellent. The product development cycle was excellent. Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping. Investor Relationships.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". This is Part 2 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.???

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years. Chances are if 3 investors tell you your space is “crowded”, this is a good proxy for what most investors think, and smaller funds will be harder to bring onboard.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years. Chances are if 3 investors tell you your space is “crowded”, this is a good proxy for what most investors think, and smaller funds will be harder to bring onboard.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Programmers feel exploited when they build out a product that is successful but are reluctant to admit they wouldn’t have been able to design the product themselves. Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). How To Get There.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. It became very hard to get businesses to adopt new stuff.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies. Bob Ktastic , Social gaming Pioneer 6 votes by Mike DeVerna , Anon User, Andy Wright , (more) Mike DeVerna , Anon User, Andy Wright , David Yousling , Ankit Singh and Philip Wilkinson Ideally and we are talking from the bootstrapping stage you would want the following.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Great for visualizing work of product development. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Venture Hacks Angel List â?? raise money with angel investors. Get Satisfaction. Eventbrite.

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