Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 16, 2023
External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. You need 5 percent or more of revenue for marketing, maybe more for ongoing development, and people costs will double as you add benefits, insurance, training, IT and new processes. Doubling revenue each year is a good target.
joel.is
MARCH 8, 2011
Lessons shared by Joel Gascoigne , a fledgling entrepreneur and contract web developer currently based in Birmingham, UK. Lessons shared by Joel Gascoigne , a fledgling entrepreneur and contract web developer currently based in Birmingham, UK. I’d like to share some of my reflections on how to bootstrap a startup from zero funds.
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. You need 5 percent or more of revenue for marketing, maybe more for ongoing development, and people costs will double as you add benefits, insurance, training, IT and new processes. Doubling revenue each year is a good target.
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.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 1, 2014
What about bootstrapping? Nelson has some tips: Know your burn rate. This is a process she went through first hand, deciding on the fresh direction for her business as they went into development a new product. Unfuddle allows development teams to easily collaborate on product management. ” Nelson says.
Tim Keane
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Paul goes on to develop the story of "vanilla" documents prepared by the angel's attorney. Groups tend to use more standard terms and -- more important -- develop an understanding of what they really do want. A low burn rate is a pearl of great price. Yup.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 1, 2010
Content companies, for example, should be able to amass traffic and sell advertising on a bootstrapped budget before they come close to seeking equity financing—because you can, and because that’s the market expectation and that’s what your competitors are already doing. Misconception #2: There’s no tech talent in NYC/Wall St.
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