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JULY 7, 2015

His company is a bootstrapped startup (for now, he says) that helps other software companies price their products based on what customers will actually pay — and essentially avoid leaving revenue on the table. Startup Lessons You’ll Learn: What tradeoffs a bootstrapped startup’s CEO makes. And thanks for listening!

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Increasingly, seed rounds occur after some sort of pre-seed or at least some period of bootstrapping. One of the biggest rookie mistakes I see among founders pursuing seed rounds is that they’ve spent too much time building something vs. proving something.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Scott’s thought leadership is popular and widely followed, and you’ll want to hear some of the things he did to bootstrap Behance and gain initial traction, not least of which was creating and selling a paper notebook as his very first product.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Scott’s thought leadership is popular and widely followed, and you’ll want to hear some of the things he did to bootstrap Behance and gain initial traction, not least of which was creating and selling a paper notebook as his very first product.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Look out for bootstrapped CarGurus , one of the leading used-car properties, targeting over $150M in revenue this year. There’s Semantic Machines , one of the best collections of AI and ML minds in the world, led by serial entrepreneur Dan Roth. Want the next TripAdvisor or Wayfair?

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MARCH 22, 2016

Although bootstrapping your startup is difficult, that in and of itself is not unique. As with No. 2, this requires a certain amount of honesty and comfort with vulnerability. The thing is, reporters respond to that because readers respond to it. Above all, avoid cliches.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Let me be the first one to state that fundraising does not equal success – some of the best companies are bootstrapped for a long time and raise money only sparingly, if at all. I’ve also seen firsthand how capital doesn’t automatically equate to success.

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