Bootstrapping Business Model Hiring Matching 
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 13, 2016
You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process. At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity. Don’t sign up for one, expecting the other.
Tim Keane
MARCH 9, 2011
Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow? If the answer is relatively soon, then bootstrapping is a very serious consideration. Even if it isn’t soon, early bootstrapping can reduce risk and increase chances for success, resulting in more aligned interests for entrepreneurs and investors.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 29, 2013
This suggests you have lost your passion for the current business model, probably because someone suggested you change from your original concept to make it easier, or to make more money. So you made some bad hiring or partner decisions. I can’t find any investors in this economy.” The people around me are all turkeys.”
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 10, 2011
This suggests you have lost your passion for the current business model, probably because someone suggested you change from your original concept to make it easier, or to make more money. So you made some bad hiring or partner decisions. I can’t find any investors in this economy.” The people around me are all turkeys.”
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 19, 2010
This suggests you have lost your passion for the current business model, probably because someone suggested you change from your original concept to make it easier, or to make more money. So you made some bad hiring or partner decisions. I can’t find any investors in this economy.” The people around me are all turkeys.”
The Entrepreneurial Mind
AUGUST 16, 2011
Bootstrapping is the name of the game for most startups. By keeping their expenses low, particularly overhead costs, entrepreneurs are able to start businesses with limited initial funding. This stage of development usually involves two major changes: hiring employees and moving into a legitimate space for the business.
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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