Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. It’s all about making your business life easier, doing what works best, getting the best results by tracking what works and always improving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of e-commerce today.

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Hosting Bootstrapping .Net Social Network 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of e-commerce today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Nevertheless, we can all benefit by understanding a collective view from investors on the high-risk elements that every new business has faced historically based on the team, as well as in the marketplace. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 254

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. Friends and family. Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 233

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of e-commerce today.

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Cost Startup Hosting Bootstrapping 220

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Nevertheless, we can all benefit by understanding a collective view from investors on the high-risk elements that every new business has faced historically based on the team, as well as in the marketplace. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 120

Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. Friends and family.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 164

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping you growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. Friends and family. Partner with beneficiary company.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 149

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. So far I have shared with you 9 simple steps to start your own tech business ((don’t miss part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ). Raise your first round of money, or bootstrap. There are two ways to start a tech business.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

” For Lindsay Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Theme Dragon, Inc that opportunity was founding a tech company. What about bootstrapping? When you’re starting a business to build your own luck, you don’t often have a lot of start up capital. Plan ahead. ” Nelson says. How do you balance it all?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Small Business Marketing: Best Times And Days To Send Email For Opens And Click-Throughs – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Priority Dish – [link]. Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company - [link]. How to Get Startup Ideas - [link].

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

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Up and Running

JULY 1, 2015

No matter what your idea is, one of these options is likely to be a perfect fit for your new business’s cash needs. Bootstrapping. Personally funding your startup doesn’t have to mean using your own money to pay for the initial startup costs and development of your business. At the end of the day, every cent counts!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

To organize my thoughts, I found a new book, “ Burn the Business Plan ,” by Carl Schramm, who speaks from experience founding five companies, working major corporate roles, and being an active venture investor. You need a business degree to start a venture today. Business strategies are best learned from experience.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Although you can watch the video archives on Justin.tv (and Paul Graham says he'll be posting the essay version of his remarks online soon), here are some of the highlights from my lecture notes: Andy Bechtolsheim: Founder, Arista Networks, Sun Microsystems. Paul Graham: Co-founder, Y Combinator. Andrew Mason: Founder, Groupon.

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Founder Cofounder Silicon Valley Bootstrapping 159

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling.

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Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2010

Lon is the founder of 14 companies, 19 inventions, and he holds three patents. I was an engineer so I started a surveying company, because that's what I knew. It's going to take twice as much money and twice as much time and nine out of 10 businesses fail. You've got to have capital or know how to bootstrap it.

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Entrepreneur Advisory Board Social Media Washington 208

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. These days revenue is the best source of capital.

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Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It doesn’t matter if you’re starting your cannabis business in Washington, Colorado, or Maine; you should start by building authentic relationships with your local cannabis community.” With any startup, investment capital is crucial to getting your business plan off the ground. ” Raise enough capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

He started his first business at age 15 and ran it until he went off to college at UC Berkeley. When Gleb was in business school at Berkeley he founded NetRelevance – his professors liked his business plan so much that they used it in the Haas School of Business as a teaching tool. How many founders are too many?

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Kenya Dilution 143

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Business, Engineering, Computer Science, and Design were all represented. We need a program that not only has a speaker series and mentor program, but also fosters collaboration among the Engineering and Business departments. Collaboration with engineering, computer science, life sciences, etc. Bootstrapping 101.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Furthermore, most of the young entrepreneurs’ problems I’ve seen are related to poor planning. Many people tend toward over thinking things when trying to craft a perfect business plan. So, the planning stage can feel high stakes. I bootstrapped Subbly by building an MVP (“minimum viable product”).

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Curation Business Model SEO Social Media 68

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The subject of measuring market size comes up every few weeks in my interactions with startup founders, and one point I always raise is the difference between a top-down and bottom-up approach. Top-Down The top-down approach is the one you would traditionally link to business school case studies and startups going after large markets.

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Marketing Software Review Matching Bootstrapping 64

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. 8 Major Tech Predictions for 2013 | Business Insider – [link]. “your business plan cannot be secret anymore.”

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

The title is “ What Does It Take to Start a Comic Book Business? It’s an interview with Brian, who’s the head of Robot Paper, founder of Robot Paper. Jonathan: Yeah, he’s actually the founder of Robot Paper, but that’s not his only job. How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that?

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Small Business Email Startup Aggregator 60

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. By the end of it, you’ll know how to build a mock-up of your business idea and write the most important document you’ll write for the company: your functional specification.

Web 40

Web AJAX Software Review Development Team Review 40

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Early startup customers are visionaries just like the founders selling to them. If I had had actually been asking “Were we solving a problem these scientists and engineers felt they had?” What did the company do when we heard customer input that contradicted our business plan and assumptions? Context here.)

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