Bootstrapping Burn Rate Partner Technical Review 
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Most of these scenarios involve attracting outside investors, strategic partners, or key team members: You are the team and you don’t need outside funding. Tiny bootstrapped teams usually don’t have a business plan, and probably don’t need one. On the other hand, your mother probably won’t read one.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Most of these scenarios involve attracting outside investors, strategic partners, or key team members: You are the team and you don’t need outside funding. Tiny bootstrapped teams usually don’t have a business plan, and probably don’t need one. On the other hand, your mother probably won’t read one.
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Professor VC
JANUARY 27, 2011
How Much Diligence is Due.Or Ive addressed the due diligence question in previous posts, but this came up again in a debate we were having at a recent meeting of the Sand Hill Angels. And in order to increase our groups returns, one of our goals should be to get more people and man hours involved in the diligence process.
Tim Keane
DECEMBER 14, 2009
He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about. When this happens, (due in part to the need to keep fees low) things get both left out and included that later wisdom will suggest should've been included or left out. Starting Startups.
Professor VC
APRIL 7, 2011
My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. Technically, the start-up is insolvent from the day they take the first dollar of investment. How Much Diligence is Due. Bootstrapping 101. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.
Professor VC
JANUARY 27, 2008
During the next four months, we will examine over a dozen entrepreneurial ventures from a diverse mix of industries - technology, service, food & beverage, and fashion. I think this same concept plays into what Ive seen happening a lot more in the venture community: partners at VC firms jumping back into entrepreneurial ventures.
Professor VC
FEBRUARY 12, 2008
Of course, rigorous diligence is performed, the team is challenged, and assumptions are tested. Once the point is reached where you want to move ahead, we put the sales hat on and convince our partners about the incredible opportunity that we are lucky enough to be able to invest on the ground floor. How Much Diligence is Due.
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