Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

When I think of some of my favorite TechStars companies, such as Occipital , they bootstrapped for several years before raising any money (well documented in the book Do More Faster ) and even then could have easily built their business without raising any money. Don’t forget to bootstrap.

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APRIL 24, 2014

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. Amy likes to remind me that when I was an entrepreneur, I used to regularly give talks at MIT about entrepreneurship.

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AUGUST 21, 2010

Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ? Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. It’s absolutely beautiful and a stunning example of what you can do with the SimpleGeo API.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Occipital’s founders – Jeff and Vikas – are the epitome of bootstrap entrepreneurs. At the end of the program they had a few chances to raise money but weren’t happy with the valuations so decided to hunker down and just bootstrap things.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

When we led Eric’s first financing — a $10 million round and the first capital into the bootstrapped team — we believed mobile location and mapping would be big. I’ve posted about the massive founder crush my partners and I have on Eric Gundersen, the CEO of Mapbox.

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JULY 15, 2014

In addition to bootstrapping his new company forever (since he’s a multi-time successful entrepreneur), Steve could easily raise an angel round any time he wanted to. So, we were psyched he was willing to do an FG Angels Syndicate with us.

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