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. Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Many companies that have raised capital are going to need to spend it wisely to win and others will be forced to bootstrap. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing. Bootstrapping 101. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. More on that in a future post.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

While VC firms have been easy to find from the old school days of Pratts Guide to Venture Capital , to the early web presence of the 1990s and the current web sites, blogs, twitter feeds, facebook fan pages and sites such as The Funded , angels are still a bit harder to track down. Bootstrapping 101. ► September. (1).

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I put up my Bodega Partners web site in 1995 and it served its purpose for a number of years, but I just didnt spend the energy to keep it current and finally just took it down last month. Bootstrapping 101. Ive thought about it for the past 5 or 6 years and finally decided to do it this afternoon. Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider. Bootstrapping 101. The move topped the box office for the second straight weekend and has grossed $46M in less than two weeks.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I laughed and said that our web site made this clear and we may have even put a brief posting to this effect on our twitter feed. Bootstrapping 101. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ► September. (1).

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. Bootstrapping 101. Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine. ► September. (1).

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