Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Most of you business professionals that I know have at least thought about or talked about starting their own business, to get more control, make more money, or to get more satisfaction out of their life. The challenge is when and how to make the switch to the entrepreneur lifestyle. You can’t keep all these in your head.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. business model and team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Steve is also the author of Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. 20:21] Where can people find out more about your programs and your book?

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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. Email This BlogThis!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Yet many aspiring entrepreneurs I know approach it as a fun project, get-rich quick scheme, or perhaps an expensive hobby. As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

Yet many aspiring entrepreneurs I know approach it as a fun project, get-rich quick scheme, or perhaps an expensive hobby. As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? Marty Zwilling.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Each week we discuss the latest news, resources, and advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners. In this week’s episode, Peter and Jonathan talk about Robot Paper, a startup comic book company founded by Brian Wyrick. What Does It Take to Start a Comic Book Business? We should make a comic book.”

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. I will describe their businesses briefly, below. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. GrillGrate.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Entrepreneurs put together their funding presentation by extracting the key ideas from their business plan, putting them on PowerPoint/Keynote and pitching the company – until they get funded or exhausted.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Bootstrapping can be fun, you get to iterate quickly, turn on dimes, invent new features on the fly. I think we erred in letting our traffic and operational concerns outstrip our business model, where simply maintaining what we had was preventing us from advancing our product.”. To quote Ron Swanson: ‘Don’t half-ass two things.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

APRIL 22, 2011

The Christian Science Monitor recently asked me what five books I would recommend every entrepreneur own. Gerber, in which he gives a realistic job preview that all first time entrepreneurs should read before they jump in the water. One word that every student remembers from my classes is bootstrapping.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. You can also take the 1M/1M self-assessment test here.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

While there may be initial grants that launch businesses and get them off the ground, philosophically, we believe that a model of self-sustaining development is the key to a stable global economic system. It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Photo by kipcurry. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

During this week's roundtable we discussed an area that deserves a serious look from entrepreneurs: Rural BPO. Today, I invited entrepreneurs to come up with ideas, apply the 1M/1M methodology to it, and come discuss with me at these roundtables. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected. Well, I was once an amateur.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. twenty in your wallet?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

If you can prove a business model, traction, and potential for a tremendous scale with the right backing, you could be a ripe target to be acquired. . Whether a brand new bootstrapped startup or corporate giant, your altitude, sustainability, and traction has everything to do with your team. IP & Technology.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

But, what constitutes success for the parties involved – investors, entrepreneurs, employees, and customers – can vary dramatically. Misaligned interests that lead to poor financing choices are often very problematic for first time entrepreneurs in young companies.  Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

To organize my thoughts, I found a new book, “ Burn the Business Plan ,” by Carl Schramm, who speaks from experience founding five companies, working major corporate roles, and being an active venture investor. You need a business degree to start a venture today. Most successful entrepreneurs are young and crazy.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

It’s part three of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. So far I have shared with you 9 simple steps to start your own tech business ((don’t miss part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ). Raise your first round of money, or bootstrap.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2012

For the uninitiated, Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where entrepreneurs come together to pitch ideas, form teams, and learn best practices. 150 people came together, and 17 businesses were formed. Perry rightly points out that a miniscule percentage of entrepreneurs get funded. Most of them are not fundable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

Yet many aspiring entrepreneurs I know approach it as a fun project, get-rich quick scheme, or perhaps an expensive hobby. As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets?

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. Entrepreneurs who have experience in the vertical market they’re entering do this analysis automatically. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,

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Tim Keane

JUNE 19, 2012

.  Our group recently reviewed a plan that included a couple of high powered and very competent advisors - and those advisors got to the opportunity because I'd suggested - years ago - that the entrepreneur talk to them. Bootstrapping. Books I Like. So what is the "depends" part? . October 2010. Categories.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

  When we talk to entrepreneurs (or explain to others what we do) we often explain this in risk terms. Hiring the right folks with broad experience beyond what is immediately called for is a great idea - if you can find them and if they'll work well with the entrepreneurs.  Bootstrapping. Books I Like.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Tim Keane

APRIL 20, 2009

Bootstrap your venture. At last week's Business Plan Competition at Marquette University , the keynote speaker, Greg Gianforte, CEO of Right Now , talked passionately about the keys to bootstrapping businesses.  It seems to me that bootstrapping is an overlooked technique, and it should not be. 

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2019

Even with the most strategic business models and innovative financial approach, some businesses generally require hefty startup costs, which means, bootstrapping and asset-based loans might prove abortive. This is the closest thing to “free money” an entrepreneur could ever get. Reach out to an investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

Yet many aspiring entrepreneurs I know approach it as a fun project, get-rich quick scheme, or perhaps an expensive hobby. As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

In many of these cases, the funds or the accelerators want to put in $100,000 to $500,000 in select ventures but are having a hard time finding mature entrepreneurs to support. Announce one or two $100,000 prizes that only those entrepreneurs who have gone through and completed at least 60 hours of 1M/1M curriculum would be eligible for.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. Does that make sense to you and you’re like yes, I can get a million of those guys just like Fresh Books did and so forth? Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model. Jason: Exactly.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? Investors love entrepreneurs who understand their business model, and can describe it accurately. And when they meet entrepreneurs that cant, it is often a sign that the management team needs strengthening - at a minimum. » October 02, 2007.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2008

« The Whitehorse Daily Star - good advice for entrepreneurs | Main. Last week, our angel group reviewed a business with an online lie detector technology.     What does that mean for entrepreneurs?     What does that mean for entrepreneurs?  Bootstrapping. Categories.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Bootstrapping. Books I Like. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. October 2010. September 2010. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

It was bootstrapped.   I’ve been fortunate enough to be teaching aspiring entrepreneurs at Marquette University ever since.   I’ve been fortunate enough to be teaching aspiring entrepreneurs at Marquette University ever since. Most of these, to an entrepreneur, seems ordinary. Here’s a list to consider.

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