Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Yet even so, there still seems to be quite a runway in this space due to three mega trends: Every company is discovering that they need to use technology to streamline their business and improve their competitive position. And with “age” often come sub-optimal products, tech debt, inflexible business models, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Everyone must be part of the sales process. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants. Set expectations accordingly.

Entrepreneur 283

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants. Set expectations accordingly.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). Requires venture funding because you have no income, and if you’re successful you’ll need lots of people and tech to run the business. Think: GoDaddy).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

According to a recent Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

SoCal CTO

APRIL 23, 2010

How to Work With a Contract Web Developer How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

This presents a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to launch their own businesses and capitalize on the latest technology. 4- Drop-shipping enterprise Photo Credit: Matthew Magnante It's my proposal The drop-shipping business model involves selling things that are transported straight from the supplier to the client.

Software Review 112

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2015

These are the little known bootstrapped start-ups that continue to operate through debt and personal savings. The truth with bootstrapping is that business owners always tend to operate on extremely tight budgets. The result is a business that meets its market share targets more efficiently. But is this model replicable?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. business model entrepreneur investors startup viable'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants. Join a startup incubator.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Funding process.

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Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 187

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 10, 2010

In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. These are distinct operations — different clients, different technology, different sales process — almost like two separate companies. What are other advantages or pitfalls of marketplace-style businesses?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. Most founders bootstrap product development.

Technical Review 120

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Caremerge’s technology and first-of-its-kind apps have transformed senior healthcare providing unprecedented coordination in patient care between institutions, patients and their families. In other words, you have done wonders while “bootstrapping.” The rise of technology has created new ways to raise capital.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2012

In fact, he points out that conventional term loans are a far less common way to finance a business, and in some countries, credit cards are actually a more popular source of startup capital. Bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap. Don’t get hung up on the business plan. His advice? Don’t innovate, imitate.

Technical Review 175

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

But online payment technology didn’t catch up with their vision, until now. By September that year they would launch what would be one of the first crowdfunding sites on the Internet. How successful have they been?

San Diego 167

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

Every business owner needs to plan to reinvent their business regularly, or their competitors and their customers will make them obsolete. By drawing on the current network of drivers and the app technology it already has in place, UberEATS could be a major competitor for food delivery services such as DoorDash.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. The companies that have the greatest chance of surviving the global economic shutdown are the ones that have pivoted their business processes from the brick-and-mortar model to an online model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Request a small business grant. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

We live in an era where technology goes hand in hand with business. It impacts the pace at which businesses grow and it remains interesting to see trends that will emerge from some of these technologies. 5G technology provides faster connectivity with decreased latency and battery usage. Photo Credit: Adam Fard.

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Artificial Inteligence Technology Entrepreneur Cloud 103

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Capital investments are like gasoline on a startup business’s metaphorical fire. They allow you to hire more people, purchase new technology, and establish new business connections, among many other benefits. Rule 1: Bootstrap until you have a viable product. You make all the decisions, when you want, how you want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Request a small business grant. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

Equity 436

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 436

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

On the other end of the spectrum are ideas that truly represent a disruptive technology , or could lead to real social or environmental change. Examples I have seen include atomic battery technology, or how marine algae could help feed the world. Should this be a non-profit or for-profit business?

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Bootstrapping Salary 317

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Photo by thesaint.

Cloud 117

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

Prior to Credo, Andrej worked at an early growth fund Benson Oak, the first backer of AVG Technologies . They speak about how they love to help entrepreneurs build successful companies, yet when I ask them to give me feedback on my business plan or idea, they usually don’t even bother writing me back. VCs are arrogant. VCs are cowards.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

At Treehouse, we’re trying to make technology education affordable and accessible to everyone on Earth, and doing that means that we’ll be working for a really long time and will likely always have more to do. Bootstrapping can be fun, you get to iterate quickly, turn on dimes, invent new features on the fly.

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Cofounder Founder Startup Bootstrapping 164

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

John Jantsch (02:29): So I'm curious, how did you get into the business of advising startups? Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. You know, could you look at my business plan? See if the business model works, all these questions.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She wants to sell these products on her site. PowerStores.in. You can register for the next roundtable here.

India 114

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

An amazing story of what bootstrapping and building the right team can accomplish. Most of the founders are still with the company helping to take the core technologies they developed in Deimos into other markets and other applications. There is a great description of how far they have taken their business model on their website.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Facebook comments: Pros and cons for business – [link]. Bizarre to see agencies blaming clients for agencies’ failure to evolve their business models – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First up today was Yogesh Sharma presenting Rangrut.com , a business that connects employers with learning institutions and on-campus students to fill job openings. The crux of the discussion revolved around segmentation and business models. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

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. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Next comes the topic of angels. Photo by takatuka.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

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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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The business idea was not very well fleshed out, and needs a lot of work still. Also, the business model for the business is unclear. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. You can register for the next roundtable here. Photo by kipcurry. Discuss.

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