Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

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. Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? Use personal credit cards for business. Keep your personal credit cards separate from the business.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2022

It teaches you how to deal with investors, what areas of your business need to be strengthened, and how to improve your pitch for the next meeting. It can be difficult to know where to start after an investor rejects your business proposal. Ask why your business was rejected. They want your business to be able to scale up.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 29, 2011

The stars all seemed to be converging for me as a fan of the Business Model Canvas. version of my syllabus for my planning class that has become largely centered around the Business Model Generation framework. My class no longer looks like a traditional old business planning class. I am refining the 3.0

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Business Model Framework Canada Bootstrapping 65

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Well of course we’re focusing on this and that, and you can take a lot of times with frameworks or whatever, I say that doesn’t matter. You do in small business, in startups, you survive on focus, and my shortcut to strategy that I like is think about identify, market and business offering. What is going well?

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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

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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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. We identify great innovative companies with solid business models and help them determine the right growth path for their businesses.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. In some sense, their moat is capital, because most people will not be able to access enough capital (either by raising or by bootstrapping) to go after a similar opportunity.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. In some sense, their moat is capital, because most people will not be able to access enough capital (either by raising or by bootstrapping) to go after a similar opportunity.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

Steve Blank promotes this framework and it has been used by a lot of startups in the Silicon Valley. Now when you know more about different pricing options, it’s time to think of choosing one for your own business. Therefore the better idea might be to take a look at a bootstrapped startup who is in a market for several years.

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Startup Viral Silicon Valley B2C 173

market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy. one component of the business is the driving force of the strategy — the company’s so-called DNA.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs mistakenly often engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Saul Klein • Nov 16, 2010 I think the important part of the under-appreciation of the distribution part is the lack of formal structure in business activities and the lack of proper communication arising from it. Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.)

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Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Dan (2010-06-20) # Dont forget that the first milestone, no matter how small you think it is, in reality it needs the projects initial foundation: database, framework, some css.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. high-level Python framework. broken vc model.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53