Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Bootstrapping. I always recommend that you start with bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is when you put your own money or borrow from friends and family to set up your business. Equity investors. Seed stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

You can find free software on the internet that does almost the same thing as your subscription-based software. Review if you need the extra perks of the costlier alternative, and see if you can make do with the cheaper one. The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Super-angel investors (micro-VCs). These terms refer to a class of professional investors who invest their own money, like angels, but have the larger resources and scope of venture capitalists with other people’s money. A seed round is intended to be followed by a bigger Series A round. Sweat equity.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Basically if you didn’t code or sell, you were semi-worthless. 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. I now realize it was the wisdom of a great entrepreneur. Lessons Learned.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Download our free Startup Checklist and review the complete guide for starting a small business. While you may be enamored with becoming an entrepreneur and bootstrapping your business, don’t quit your day job. According to a report from the Harvard Business Review , entrepreneurs who plan are 16% more likely to achieve viability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

From jewelry to dog food to SaaS (software as a service) products, startups are popping up in virtually every field around the world, despite the risks. Use a billing software to record the sales and invest in a relationship with a tax professional only when needed. Bootstrapping or self-funding. Angel investors.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Bootstrapping 101. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. ProfessorVC. Steve Bennet.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. But, credit is due to all these CEO’s for perseverance. There might even be a nugget in the new tax code that trickles down to your business. I got the message. Timing and circumstances change.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. We will work on that with her. Trendy Loot.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

For example, Palo Alto Software focuses primarily on helping small businesses realize their dreams of starting a business. Many people reading this guide will already have an idea of what that is – perhaps a tutoring agency, or a restaurant, or a software company. Week 1 – Get the ball rolling.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Computer Software. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. Food & Tobacco. Hospitality. Industrial Goods & Services. Marketing & Strategy. Media Agencies. Metals & Mining. NAME Comcast.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We also made sure to look at the financial profile of other Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. If we couldn’t sell our first product for that, which was Bazaarvoice Ratings & Reviews, then it probably wasn’t worth selling in the first place because we could have never built into a SaaS company that had a viable financial profile.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. Like if you wanna do a startup and you're really just like, love the coding, do the coding and get somebody else. Like this show?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business - [link]. “3 Types of Angel Investors and How to Pick the Right One (or Two)&# - [link]. Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business - [link].

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.   He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about.    They got better and better as the software application got more capable.    Good angel groups, too. 

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In this article, I’ll provide some personal stories of how investors have navigated the balance between raising private equity capital and not losing control of their startup. Rule 1: Bootstrap until you have a viable product. Even the smallest deals involve literally hundreds of moving parts and legalese.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Due diligence: An Entrepreneurs Perspective » October 19, 2006. People bought the software but grumbled about the pricing idea. Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. We’re business owners, we aren’t all getting angel investment, so one of the principles of the lean business plan is you do what you’re going to use.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all!

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

While the flick has gotten rave critical reviews (93% on Flixster), the question of what percentage of the movie is true has also gotten a lot of discussion in the blogosphere. This is a good review of the movie and both books. Blake Southwood Founder of LIghtning Storm Software. How Much Diligence is Due.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. both in the “picks and shovels” space of digital retail with very compelling software solutions. make that fourteen years now).

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). You’re asking someone to take a chance that with the code they deliver you can get funding or gain some revenue traction. How much will you need?

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. If there are outside investors, they are likely to be on the board. Hopefully, there are one or two well-known venture capitalists.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). However, neither one of us has a coding background. Bootstrapping Independence · A Short List of Current Reading - Dec 2, 2009 [.] Enrique Ortiz · Nov 24, 2009 Great post.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

I assembled textbook chapters, Harvard Business Review articles, cases, and notes to pull together my own textbook. hp coupon code. How Much Diligence is Due. Bootstrapping 101. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

In fact, any bootstrapped company should be aiming for slow, consistent growth rather than explosive growth. Don’t use company property or Internet, ever - Another clause in most employment agreements is that anything you do physically at work, or on software and equipment owned by the company (e.g. This is not a bad thing.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Review your business plan regularly. Committing to regularly reviewing your business plan and financials is a good step toward making more informed, smarter spending decisions, that can have a big impact on a new business’s long term viability. Many brewers avoid that due to perceived qualitative differences,” says Patrick.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due. Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies. Lead developer-Keeps the team organized with who is working on what specific part of the code and keeps the team driving towards the daily/weekly goals.

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