Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2011

Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company. For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Personal loans from individuals, employees and board members. Individual and institutional donations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company. For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Personal loans from individuals, employees and board members. Individual and institutional philanthropy.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

4- Drop-shipping enterprise Photo Credit: Matthew Magnante It's my proposal The drop-shipping business model involves selling things that are transported straight from the supplier to the client. Your business model involves cooking and delivering delicious meals to people at their places of employment or at their homes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2010

Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company. For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Personal loans from employees and board members. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues.

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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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. I call it drip-financing. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

This is a segment that is well beyond traditional micro-finance, but also somewhat below the scope of the regular financial institutions. Hardika intends to build a financial institution focused on this segment with financing from social entrepreneurship oriented venture funds like Unitus. million financing round for.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Bigfoot Capital.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Rule 1: Bootstrap until you have a viable product. Background: Justin Klemm’s analytics and website uptime startup, Ghost Inspector , wants to revolutionize the way businesses manage their ecommerce funnels. practice in mid-sized or large organizations and act more as employees than owners of the medical practice.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2018

“But I’ve also dealt with many successful entrepreneurs who were exposed to that model for bootstrapping and trying new ventures through their parents and others close to them,” he adds. “I I think that’s helped many grapple realistically with the demanding aspects of business ownership, and also set them up for success.”.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

For years they demonstrated real, growing revenues (not just “active users”), a repeatable, scalable business model (not just flash-in-the-pan ideas), ownership of a large market (SMB lead-gen, social gaming), and they survived the operational challenges inherent in rapid-growth companies.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2022

They want your business to be able to scale up. This will be difficult if your business model doesn’t easily scale. If the answer is no, you may need to revisit your business model. Your business isn’t primed for growth. On the other hand, you may have a bad business idea. Embrace rejection.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.   You can vary both valuation and term-sheet assumptions (in the gray boxes) to assess the impact on the values of the business. This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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Babbling VC

APRIL 3, 2011

Here's the next question/request which came up in regards to blog topics: From a purely selfish standpoint, I'd like to hear about your views on bootstrapping vs. VC. I know it goes against your business model :-) but it must tickle you that to some, the sign of success is funding and not a successful business.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

What’s the concept of all of this that you’re talking about and then in financing? I just thought it was a good question to set the context of lean planning and when somebody should use it, because so many of our webinar attendees are in the process of getting financing. Are we doing a business loan? This is Magda.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc.,

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. He then went on to say that this type of financing was good for the entrepreneur (vs taking VC money) because they got to keep more of the company. Bootstrapping 101. ► July. (1). ► May. (1).

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If you have a reputation for cutting corners, not treating employees or partners right, it will become very difficult to do business. The business environment is much more complex today, and the hopeful entrepreneur need to understand more of the environment in which they will operate. Bootstrapping 101. ► July. (1).

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. Im trying to create a technology enabled recruiting service for an unproven business model.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Now most of the businesses are small to medium- sized businesses. Jason: What do you mean by a medium-sized business? How many employees would a medium-sized business have in your definition? They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business. Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In this two-part guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. In part two, we’ll discuss finances, insurance, and regulations for breweries. Keep on reading!

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

Embrace slow growth – We all have dreams of stratospheric growth, but it’s not a “plan,&# especially not for a business you’re running in your spare time. In fact, any bootstrapped company should be aiming for slow, consistent growth rather than explosive growth. This is not a bad thing.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market. Are you going to be hiring employees? Week 2 – Getting financed. You can do it even if you start from home.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

investment bankers, while the dot com bubble was driven by investment bankers willing and able to convince institutional and retail investors that companies didn''t need to have a business model or even a way to exist without relying on additional investment. No, the question today is not whether these unicorns are viable businesses.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. You can bootstrap your way into existence. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e. Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur. This is Sabrina Parsons, the CEO of Palo Alto Software.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Remarks to the Visionary Companies Conference, Billings, MT May 27, 2010 It’s a fact that all net job creation since the 1980s has come    with under 100 employees. It was bootstrapped.   The company grew to 250 employees in two states.   The company grew to 250 employees in two states.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In this guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been-there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. Watch your finances. Friends and family are the most common backers, and many startups bootstrap.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

On the topic of business models, Spencer proposed building traffic and then selling the company, which I pushed back on. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Let’s just for now go with this Craigslist assumption, because at least it’s a business. The other stuff you’re talking about, to me – I still don’t understand the business model and the pain point. It’s just a bootstrapping way to get moving and get some momentum. Jared: Right.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Think Again. dasein Yeah, I agree.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Smart, capable managers would not hesitate to make decisions instead of allowing their employees to make them. This left very smart employees feeling very frustrated because their managers would interfere intermittently and at random moments. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies. Developers who understand and can execute on a business model. a designer, a programmer, a researcher and a business model. Saul’s answer was excellent.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. easy business finance software. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. model legal documents. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *.

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