Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Luckily, there are some new entrants and approaches to seed-stage funding -- if you know whom to ask -- that can supplement the friends, family and bootstrapping approaches traditionally recommended.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

During this week's roundtable, one of the questions that I answered was about the One Million by One Million program's plans around supporting social enterprises. Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. million financing round for.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

During this week's roundtable I addressed a commonly held critique of the 1M/1M program: that we're focusing on the basics and stating the obvious. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected. The crux of the discussion revolved around segmentation and business models.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. Sequoia has financed them. I pointed Zubair to a couple of case studies of bootstrapping using services to get more of his core product built; in parallel, I will help him pursue institutional funding.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

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. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. Once there is critical mass, lots of business can, indeed, happen. However, how do you get to critical mass, and how do you finance the period during which this business runs on red ink? How much time do you budget for red ink financing?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

What we didn’t envision was that one creative corporate VP would take that post and build a world-class corporate innovation program around it. For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago. in developing these new models. And why wouldn’t it be?

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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. Apply for Grants.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. The business is already profitable with $2.9

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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. About Sramana Mitra.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ).

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Im an active participant on AngelList a fan of the excellent accelerator programs ( YCombinator , 500 Startups , TechStars , AngelPad, etc.), in fees is a hefty transaction fee considering company will still have legal and other fees on the financing. Bootstrapping 101. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

RCSM is also participating in the TechStars funding alliance that will be providing an offer of $100K in funding upon acceptance into the program. Bootstrapping 101. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

It was bootstrapped. I’d like to think that our programs are helping students live lives of meaning through the benefits of entrepreneurship. Here in America, 95+% of all entrepreneurs never have had any external investment financing. It was bootstrapped.   We had a customer and a value proposition.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

They also gave an entertaining pitch, with biz dev guy Kemp Mullaney playing the role of a harried guy about to enter the 12-step Check-In program before discovering FootFeed. Bootstrapping 101. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Back to the question posed up top. Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct.

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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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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

However, Ive seen a number of students not find their entrepreneurial DNA until exposed to the content and guest speakers in the entrepreneurial program. I would definitely have applied had there been a program while I was attending school. Bootstrapping 101. Thats enough to keep me teaching! Steve Bennet. at 4:34 PM.

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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., for Harvard Business Revie.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

link] The movie didn't show how much programming was involved but the book "The FaceBook Effect" was very biased in favor of Zuck but had some good details not covered in "Accidental Billionaires" nor the movie. ► September. (1). Bootstrapping 101. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. This program helps pre-funded startups get work done by professionals willing to work without a formal paycheck. After a few months, the demo site won a business plan competition. Hes right on so many levels. at 3:54 PM.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. At SJSU, we also have a business plan competition in the spring, which ideally allows the students to build a viable business model around their NIF projects. Bootstrapping 101. ► July. (1). ► May. (1).

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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. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. model legal documents. Growing Business : Growingbusiness.co.uk SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *. Customer service. Eventbrite.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

I actually enjoy the process of pulling together a selection of materials to create a complete course on Entrepreneurial Finance. I assembled textbook chapters, Harvard Business Review articles, cases, and notes to pull together my own textbook. This whole process got me thinking about the textbook business model.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship with the students. His gut told him the opportunity might not be there in a year and he dropped out of business school to launch the venture. Bootstrapping 101.

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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?

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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. Labels: angel groups , valuation.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

I've been experiencing a lot of crashing on my Galaxy S lately, and the number of running programs that I didn't turn on is getting ridiculous--slowing my memory to a crawl. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. What's the business model?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Edward Cruz from GuruStorms , which was a finalist in the SXSW Accelerator program. The current business model for expert consultants is a brick and mortar industry with revenues of about 1/2 a Billion dollars per year. Q: How has the company been financed?

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I am not sure how this relates to venture finance or entrepreneurship, but Im sure Ill find some connection along the way. See you at the twelve step program. Bootstrapping 101. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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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. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. Other Business Services.

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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. This clause is fair.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. However, I am teaching the ELAB and a new experimental course (The Silicon Valley Experience) for the MBA program.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). You can bootstrap your way into existence. Dec 26, 2009). believe that is certainly true.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

As an active participant in the Silicon Valley new venture ecosystem and entrepreneurship educator, Im intrigued by the recently announced program Venture for America (VFA). VFA is sending high achieving recent college grads into small businesses and start-ups in inner cities. Bootstrapping 101. ► July. (1). ► May.

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