YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

If you and your co-founder(s) are friends, why not work on your home instead? Social media is free, too, (if you don’t buy ads) so make sure to maximize its use to reach and interact with your customers. If you haven’t been able to save up for your capital, consider bootstrapping your business. Stay online.

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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. She and original cofounder Megan Bradford poured their proverbial blood, sweat and tears into this enterprise. What about bootstrapping? Buffer helps you with managing and scheduling your social media posts.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

August 20, 2011 by Lauren Drell 1 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. What is bootstrapping? Why bootstrap?

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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). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. She now recognizes the need to have co-founders.

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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 much time do you budget for red ink financing? How long can you go without a salary?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. He's the founder and c e o of a nonprofit organization called Beyond the Crisis.

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entrepreMusings

APRIL 20, 2014

Schoner was the founder of ThingMagic, LLC, a garage-grown RFID technology company led by a small group of MIT Media Lab graduates. According to Bernd Schoner, author of The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide: How to Bootstrap Your Startup, Lead Through Tough Times, and Cash In for Success.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In this two-part guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. In part two, we’ll discuss finances, insurance, and regulations for breweries.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

As CEO and co-founder Naval Ravikant tells me, when he and co-founder Babak Nivi started VentureHacks a few years ago, their goal was to educate companies on how to negotiate venture term sheets. For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

As an instant-messaging and social media service, Meebo never really had trouble finding and attracting talent. Ive done a lot of placing people into positions, and I have never used a job board as a way to do that," says Rich Sloan , co-founder of StartupNation. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Media Temple. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Social Media Tracking/Marketing.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? Lakshman Prasad • Nov 16, 2010.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Day 2 featured the consumer and social media, which were more interesting for me and much of the audience. Bootstrapping 101. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 24, 2017

You never know—you may just get a potential investor out of it like Michael Litt , co-founder of Vidyard. However, most entrepreneurs do eventually need investments from external sources, and can’t rely on bootstrapping forever. Many seasoned entrepreneurs are happy to share their knowledge and opinions—you just have to ask!

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Capital Factory is fortunate to have many co-founders and some that even joined a few years in. In 2012, when we opened up the coworking space Bill Boebel and Gordon became co-founders and helped establish the model that we have in place today. We are a bootstrapped business so cash management is critical?—?you

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game. But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. My personal experience echoes that.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The team has already secured nearly $2 Million in Series A financing from Mike Maples new firm FLOODGATE, and Austin Ventures. Q: Your co-founders have been working on some technology in their spare time. Some started with funding and some were bootstrap. Mass Relevance is this company.&#. That’s exactly the point.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. You can bootstrap your way into existence. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. And then co-founded Helix Nano Technologies, or HelixNano, which I am now the CEO of. HelixNano was founded to develop cancer vaccines. Hannu Rajaniemi : Absolutely.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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