Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Bootstrap if you can, for as long as you can As a startup you’ll likely fail. Not necessarily the entire business, but at some point, something will fail and you’ll either learn from it and grow or it will be the beginning of the end. At this point, we had already developed the first phase of the platform by bootstrapping.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Google's search algorithm was just better, therefore they won the eyeballs, therefore they were able to monetize. Google has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on their search algorithm, the single biggest focus of the company even today, a decade after they decided that was their One Thing.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. 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. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

As an example, Joel says that there is a chief revenue officer who is solely responsible for bringing in revenue to StackExchange. He is responsible for bringing in revenue from advertising and their careers offering. The original business model for StackOverflow was to help employers find good programmers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Can it scale?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2013

If the business plan reads like a smorgasbord of offerings, there are probably not enough resources to do any well, and customers will be confused. Rational business model, with prices and volumes. Unless the business is a non-profit, the entrepreneur needs to show how he will make money.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. The business model. Domain Names and Trademark Law.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

What CEOs, management teams and shareholders care about is growth —revenue growth, greater user adoption, increased market share, bigger margins, etc. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

Revenue and profit projections are not credible. Attractive businesses to investors may show revenues that double every year but don’t exceed the gross national product of your country. Real customer revenue and thousands of new users represent traction and are the best indication of fundability.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

If the business plan reads like a smorgasbord of offerings, there are probably not enough resources to do any well, and customers will be confused. Rational business model, with prices and volumes. Unless the business is a non-profit, the entrepreneur needs to show how he will make money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2011

If the business plan reads like a smorgasbord of offerings, there are probably not enough resources to do any well, and customers will be confused. Rational business model, with prices and volumes. Unless the business is a non-profit, the entrepreneur needs to show how he will make money.

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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. Edwin: I do get a lot of searches for that, by the way. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question. Jason: That’s called bootstrapping, right.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Of course, everyone understands that somewhere in the equation theres revenue, whether directly or indirectly. Of course, everyone understands that somewhere in the equation theres revenue, whether directly or indirectly. Bootstrapping. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It's a three day accelerator that brings owners through how do you grow revenues. I mean, how does a business come to you and say, Oh, I listen, I listen to John's podcast and I wanna join Hello s how's that happen? Business model. Everybody's so bootstrapped and so tight on dollars. Share files securely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2010

If the business plan reads like a smorgasbord of offerings, there are probably not enough resources to do any well, and customers will be confused. Rational business model, with prices and volumes. Unless the business is a non-profit, the entrepreneur needs to show how he will make money.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? Investors love entrepreneurs who understand their business model, and can describe it accurately. In my mind, a "business model" reveals the structure of the profit engine that underlies the venture. Is Business Model Analysis Important To You?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”. MentorMob is bootstrapped and has 12 employees. “At MentorMob , our community members sort through all the content, choose the best snippets and lace them together into a step-by-step course.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable. That’s because the model is based on assumptions about customers that are totally unproven.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. The difference?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. 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. Advanced Search. Businesses For Sale |. SmartMoney.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Some startups die because their business model is platform-dependant. Bootstrapped companies have no such luxury. If you're betting the entire business on getting traffic through search results, at any moment a competitor or the platform itself could oust you. Companies like TweetUp and Ad.ly They "survived.".

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

To avoid these extremes, there are several questions which we use at Subbly whenever someone is either considering a subscription business model or just getting started. Is your business idea focused mainly on product promotion, or the service through careful experience design? So, the planning stage can feel high stakes.

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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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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model.   Pre-bubble Siliicon Valley deals were popularly valued at multiples of revenue.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

That means the vast majority of privately held companies are still very dependent on venture money to stay in business. Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Add to this that 72.7% just my 2 cents.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. First develop a business model.  By this time (in six months) we will be getting 20 orders per day from these two callers and our revenue will stabilize at that rate. How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. First develop a business model.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Quora Home About Login Sign Up Add Question Before adding a question, search for it above. You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. They are many more examples.

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Tim Keane

JULY 16, 2007

I just talked to a business owner the other day who has grown her startup nicely - 15% a year or so - up to revenue of a bit over $2.5MM. Now, (in the service business,) the venture is at the point where she could accelerate its growth. in new revenue. On revenue of $2.5MM, thats a 24% increase just to pay the bank.).

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Tim Keane

JUNE 8, 2009

  An example of that is pre-revenue science start-ups with grant funding.  Posted at 09:23 AM in Bootstrapping | Permalink.   An example of that is pre-revenue science start-ups with grant funding.  Bootstrapping. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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Tim Keane

AUGUST 20, 2009

.  If the entrepreneur can bootstrap. the business, it will always be worth more to the entrepreneur as well as future investors, if any.    (People I know are tired of hearing this, but we did bootstrap RTMS, Inc. up to $10MM in revenue.    This is fundamental to their business model. 

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2012

At this point, RTMS had one customer paying them what amounted to all of their annual revenue - plus or minus $500,000 I think. At this point, RTMS had one customer paying them what amounted to all of their annual revenue - plus or minus $500,000 I think.           Search. Bootstrapping.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

Now, as their revenue grows substantially, its time to make the shift toward a more quantitative management environment. Now, as their revenue grows substantially, its time to make the shift toward a more quantitative management environment. Bootstrapping. Signup for email updates. Enter your Email. April 2013. January 2013.

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Tim Keane

AUGUST 21, 2006

As the venture progresses from financing to revenue (whether financed by an investor or the entrepreneur) that first big, critical issue has to be the first miss on projections. The entrepreneur has a better understanding of the business model and whether it really can be high growth. Bootstrapping. Will it happen?

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

And in businesses that are not on a "harvest path," this system, (combined with a constantly updated market map) should work well for a long time, potentially providing a lot of positive cash flow for the company and its owners. What can we do to their revenue? What can we do to their revenue? Bootstrapping.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). The New MacBook Air Is That Good. From Nothing To Something.

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