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10 Incentives For Entrepreneurs To Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on the Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom a while back, personal money, or bootstrapping, continues to be the primary startup funding source. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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10 Incentives For Entrepreneurs To Bootstrap Their Startup

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Based on the Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom a while back, personal money, or bootstrapping, continues to be the primary startup funding source. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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Dragons, Bootstrapping and Women in Tech

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What about bootstrapping? Nelson has some tips: Know your burn rate. Nelson notes that in two studies, both from Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In and from a Harvard Business School study , when it came to judging women’s work less favorably, the women involved in the study were just as biased as the men.

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. See my interview a couple of years ago with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each. Technology costs.

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10 Reasons for a Startup to Skip Outside Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on the latest Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom, personal money, or bootstrapping, continued to be the primary startup funding in 2012. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. See my interview a while back with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each. Technology costs.

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

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That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. See my interview a couple of years ago with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each. Technology costs.

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