Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

According to a recent Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up. Bootstrapping. Debt investors.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

Designing Your Business Model Crafting a business model is like building a blueprint for your venture. Revenue streams are another critical component of your business model. Will you opt for direct sales, subscriptions, or a freemium model? However, do so with caution and strategic planning.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Business Model Bootstrapping 158

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.

Software Review 117

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 117

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2014

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. At least wait until later, when you ready to scale, and have some “leverage” based on a proven business model, some real customers, and real revenue.

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Bootstrapping Entrepreneur Startup Burn Rate 276

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company. For a nonprofit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

Angel Investor 132

Angel Investor Equity Technical Review Exit Strategy 132

Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011. How should I finance my new venture? It’s a deceptively simple question:  what is the optimal way to finance a new startup? Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow? « Leaving a Trail | Main. | Align Everyone’s Interests.

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Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly. Get a loan or line-of-credit.

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Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2013

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. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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Equity Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy 207

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Think Bill Gates, with his current investments in energy management, or Blake Mycoskie with TOMs Shoes, as opposed to the leaders of the American Cancer Society or Goodwill Industries. Funding such an enterprise is more likely philanthropists, government grants, or bootstrapping. Not about entrepreneurship in the government sector.

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Entrepreneur Angel Investor Government Bootstrapping 345

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Moules believes that getting a bank loan to start a business is not ideal. In fact, he points out that conventional term loans are a far less common way to finance a business, and in some countries, credit cards are actually a more popular source of startup capital. Bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Bootstrapping Acquisition 184

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

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. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

Angel Investor 218

Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 218

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2015

These are the little known bootstrapped start-ups that continue to operate through debt and personal savings. The truth with bootstrapping is that business owners always tend to operate on extremely tight budgets. The result is a business that meets its market share targets more efficiently. But is this model replicable?

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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. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

Angel Investor 238

Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 238

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. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Equity Technical Review Exit Strategy 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Assume that raising money from investors to get started will be difficult, unless you have a track record in business, or friends with deep pockets. Decide to launch one business or product at a time.

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Early Stage Bootstrapping Revenue Framework 307

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. The companies that have the greatest chance of surviving the global economic shutdown are the ones that have pivoted their business processes from the brick-and-mortar model to an online model.

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Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. This, needless to say, projects a very large TAM.

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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Gust

DECEMBER 7, 2014

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. At least wait until later, when you ready to scale, and have some “leverage” based on a proven business model, some real customers, and real revenue.

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Bootstrapping Entrepreneur Startup Burn Rate 191

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Absolutely not.

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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

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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Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

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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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

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. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

Angel Investor 143

Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 143

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Assume that raising money from investors to get started will be difficult, unless you have a track record in business, or friends with deep pockets. Decide to launch one business or product at a time.

Early Stage 317

Early Stage Bootstrapping Revenue Framework 317

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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India Green Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. Sequoia has financed them. First up was Ambal Ramachandran with SurgeForth , a talent management SaaS company that we first saw last November.

Cloud 117

Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

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.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Please try to understand why.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

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.

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Private Equity Pre-Money Valuation Equity Startup 94

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

The steps focus you on developing your business model. But they only require “the back of an envelope” to figure out how you are going to make money, how much it is going to cost to run your business, and how soon you will generate a profit and reach breakeven. Revenue minus Cost to Run Your Business equals Profit or (Loss) .

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2013

In the simplest of terms, these are people who seek to generate “social value”, rather than profits, and use traditional business principles to create and manage a venture to make social change. Funding such an enterprise is in the realm of philanthropists, government grants, or bootstrapping.

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Entrepreneur Angel Investor Government Bootstrapping 246

Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

  Growth financing, for example.   Growth financing, for example. Bootstrapping. Managing Company Growth. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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Technical Cofounder Wisconsin Cofounder IP 68

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2018

Toronto’s Peter Tassiopoulos has spent pretty much his entire career both advising startup businesses on management, strategy and funding and also applying his knowledge, expertise and vision to lead businesses on the path to becoming innovative powerhouses. “Both,” is his informed take. You’ve also been on the money side.

Bootstrapping 140

Bootstrapping Acquisition Cloud Business Model 140

YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2019

Consider asset-based debt financing. If you need a start-up capital to fund your new business, you may embrace this method of raising the required funds. Also, if you are a service provider, you may look into accessing accounts receivable financing. Reach out to an investor.

Angel Investor 127

Angel Investor Bootstrapping Finance Audience 127