Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online. Here people make online pledges to your startup during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, give donations, or qualify for a reward, such as a tee-shirt.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Start attending networking events and leverage people in your network to connect with a mentor. Oculus VR was able to secure their initial funding from a crowdfunding campaign, and later sold to Facebook for over $2 billion ! Many cities have innovation labs or mentoring programs that can help you get your idea off the ground.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Open Government. Companies like Publicstuff and Votizen that help us connect with our elected officials and local governments are going to get a lot of dollars and attention this year. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. Reader beware.). Calendaring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Don’t be shy about networking for advisors with business experience for coaching and mentoring. Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE. Assess potential for funding or bootstrapping. The ability to pivot quickly is a key to success.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Bootstrapping or self-funding. You may also be able to apply for government-subsidized bank loans or soft loans. However, crowdfunding campaigns require a significant amount of time and planning, and your ability to achieve funding often rests on whether you already have a wide network that you can access to ask for support.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

You also may need to reconnect and expand your network. Listen guys, 90 percent of all small businesses get business referrals, so if you are somebody who doesn’t have a network you’re going to have to build one because that’s going to be the lifeblood of your business. All right, so what do you need to have in place personally?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Start-Up Chile: $40k to Live There and Start a Company - Ben Casnocha: The Blog , August 14, 2010 Governments round the world are trying to stimulate entrepreneurship. The Chilean government recently announced a bold initiative that stands apart from the usual innovation and start-up handwaving. Have convertible notes really won?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several Given my background in the data-driven world of political campaigns, I know it’s all about the #s (you win or lose on Election Day given your win #?—?you Bootstrapping is AMAZING! So what happened? Yet, yet here we are.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I cant remember if the SEC was one of the government agencies that Rick Perry wants to get rid of (but neither can he ), but it seems like this is the exact type of investor that the SEC was set up to protect. An investor in a crowdfunding campaign is likely to lose much less than an investor in Enron did. Bootstrapping 101.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We started as a way to help us monetize our networks since we found ourselves making great introductions to people and we would find in our inbox, “hey thanks for the introduction to so and so, they wrote me a check for a million dollars! #19 #7 – Great Introductions. Image Credit: Roger Wu. 19 – A True Measure.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. So the shift from buying a lot of servers and databases and software licenses and networking equipment, the shift instead to just renting it all. And then small businesses start to use it.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football.

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