Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

But travel, particularly for early-stage and bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are physically far away, can be hard to swing. Very soon I was doing Business Model Canvases for everything (of course, I hadn’t even read the entire book yet). That process lasted a few months before I got frustrated that it also wasn''t helping.

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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. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2018

A few years back, I was working as a business consultant for a venture located in a small city in India. After one year as a consultant to the business owners, I realized it was not in a position to succeed. In the case of the failing business I was advising, one of the founders had left a decent job and invested his savings.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

Persistent is breaking out of the mold of labor arbitrage, and looking at new and exciting business models. My friend Tony Scott did an outstanding interview with Anand Deshpande , their CEO recently in which Anand discussed his vision for where he wants to take the OPD business. SOCO Games. Photo by nosheep. Discuss.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Innovative products and business models are the foundations of a promising startup. Creating a scalable business model. Whether you are hoping to expand a small business with a loan or going for a round of venture capital, you will need a scalable business model. Determining how much money to ask for.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

It’s an India-based web design company. How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that? Bootstrapping comes a little bit later, where this idea of throwing your own money into the mix, making it happen yourself is important. We do already have somebody who’s emailed us. Should we use them?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. link] SEO India Wonderful!! So, the guy is BS-ting you, people.

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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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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Some large companies can bolster their position by buying out established technology and business models rather than creating them anew. photo featuring the guitar because Austin Foster notes of Taylor’s experience, “the benefits of bootstrapping come down to what Taylor calls ‘optionality.’ too obvious?) United Airlines staff?

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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. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

what’s BizMe2′s business model?). You sell to Telco’s in India and they pay you in two years. It’s great to see an early stage company bootstrapping and trying to make a difference in an area ripe for disruption. Content created by users and exhibitors for a specific event is an excellent source of SEO.

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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. Consequently, they are able to make decisions about their businesses in more astute and sophisticated ways.

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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. In it theres meeting with a guru in India who defines what a guru really does. They think theyll just hire someone from Elance or outsource to India and get rich.

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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. broken vc model. Business Culture. Business Model Canvas. Business plan. business symbiosis. India Israel. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. Brian Rosenzweig.

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