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. Calculate revenue per quarter and revenue per year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2015

Angel investors will perk up if you have a prototype or a few real customers, while venture capitalists will likely choose to wait until you have achieved several million in revenue or customer count. Be prepared to explain your business model. How much do you really need for the next 12 to 18 months?

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2018

In the case of the failing business I was advising, one of the founders had left a decent job and invested his savings. Since the company was bootstrapped, they spent frugally, lived without any salary for months, and worked hard to make it a success. There are times when businesses fail to improvise or think out of box.

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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.

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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

4 of them have double their revenue or, in a few cases, significantly more than doubled revenue, since we kicked off the program 9 months ago. When we were asked early one how we would measure whether we were on to something our answer was getting half of the companies to market salary profitable.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

There’s a lot of questions about what do you actually need in terms of information, if you’re going to do your forecasting, and how does one put together a revenue forecast if you’ve never started a business or your business is brand new. It is a very difficult proposition. There seems to be a lot of questions.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model. Edwin: The business model is that the organizer has to pay. And standing out to a company that got $10 million dollars in funding even before they started Asana is going to be very hard if you bootstrap it with your savings. Jason: That’s called bootstrapping, right.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. However, how do you get to critical mass, and how do you finance the period during which this business runs on red ink? How long can you go without a salary? I think this is a question on many minds, and we discussed it today as a core topic.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’ you can now have the engineer who is also decent in business or a laywer who can be an entrepreneur and all these other crosspollinations. Maybe I’m wrong or just know all the wrong people.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

what’s BizMe2′s business model?). Yair Margolin: Promotion – banner ads placement (campaigns ,impressions, clicks ) , banner ad packages for companies to advertise on bizme2 community as well as affiliate revenue on bookings made through the site. Me and my partner, Boaz Yehuda, worked without a salary.

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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. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Insightful. Thanks much.

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