Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

The funny part is that I didn’t realize Eventbrite had male cofounders since Women 2.0 always spotlighted Julie Hartz, cofounder and wife of Kevin. Tip: If you want to go into a market where you are unsure, bootstrap to get a sense of whether there’s a massive opportunity. You can view his full portfolio here.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2013

by Natalie Gonzalez, co-founder and head of marketing and social media at Chatalog. Although stressful, we bootstrapped the company for as long as possible while having conversations with potential investors. Small businesses are the economic engine that drives the U.S. New survey data from Constant Contact® , Inc.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. 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?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. We bootstrapped it.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. We bootstrapped it.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 22, 2012

Guest author Arie Abecassis is co-founder of AppStori, a crowdfunding startup for entrepreneurs of mobile apps, and a Venture Partner at DreamIt Ventures. Older programs have the benefit of having more companies in their portfolio as well as greater maturation for these companies.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

A business like that will just have a really hard time raising money at the early stages, and if that’s feedback you are getting from at least 2 people, you may want to consider adjusting your plan and raise from angels and/or bootstrap for a long time. The best way to assess what VCs actually like is to look at their portfolio.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

A business like that will just have a really hard time raising money at the early stages, and if that’s feedback you are getting from at least 2 people, you may want to consider adjusting your plan and raise from angels and/or bootstrap for a long time. The best way to assess what VCs actually like is to look at their portfolio.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question. Jason: Exactly. Jason: Yeah.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 28, 2015

In my discussions with K9 portfolio founders about scaling revenue, I very often end up drawing the same picture: $0/month. One of my favorite people to work with as a co-investor is Ann Miura-Ko from Floodgate. When a company reaches this level, the founders are often tired and want and need a well deserved break.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. You need to be willing to bootstrap for about 5-10 years. So it actually is very hard to bootstrap a micro VC, because on one hand, you get virtually no salary but are also mostly prohibited from making money outside of your work. You need your founders to get downstream capital.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. You need to be willing to bootstrap for about 5-10 years. So it actually is very hard to bootstrap a micro VC, because on one hand, you get virtually no salary but are also mostly prohibited from making money outside of your work. You need your founders to get downstream capital.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. 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. Dying at 70? Who doesn't?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of todays presenters.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of todays presenters.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? Here are 10 bootstrapped companies that did it on their own with no outside funding. Carbonmade helps over 100,000 people create online portfolios that require zero HTML skills. In January 2009 they won a Crunchie for best bootstrapped startup. Startup #1: Goldstar.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 26, 2012

If you are entrepreneur that isn't in a position for Series A, find other financing sources and/or figure out how to bootstrap to cash flow breakeven or in Jason's words "put on your big boy undies". If not, move on and join another team or come up with another idea with the same or different co-founders. If it works, great.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We have a portfolio of more than 500 brands and 4000 products and people invite us into their lives more 1.8 There are co-working spaces in basically every city in the world—from Nepal to New York. We had to design a whole new hiring process, compensation model, operating model, co-working spaces, etc. Innovation sounds easy.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub. Click To Tweet. “No

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Underaddressed market.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2018

In light of the recent sexual harassment allegations in the entertainment industry, Sara Douglas and Kristina Velkova, the founders of Vitaclean HQ , thought it would be a good time to shine a light on the topic for women wishing to start a company. Vitaclean HQ Founders Sara Douglas and Kristina Velkova. This is awesome!

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research , says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

I don’t believe in the myth of the self-made man or woman that you are who you are, and you can achieve what you can achieve really because you believed it hard enough, and you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps to get there. This is what Charles Handy calls, “The Portfolio life.” I’m a fan of hard work.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 6, 2014

I wrote last year about their unconventional format that allows venture capitalists to pitch themselves to growth-stage startup founders in under 5 minutes. Arjen Strijker, co-founder and CEO of Capital On Stage, has had more than 200 top-tier venture capitalists on stage at his conferences (view all 5 minute VC pitch videos here ).

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do. Replay the event.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When my co-founder Mohan Balachandran and I initially considered names for our company, which offers HIPAA compliant hosting and integration tools for healthcare technology teams, we wanted our company name to represent action, so we chose the verb to catalyze rather than the noun catalyst. #19 Thanks to Michael Harris, Uproar PR ! #15

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio? Alexia Tsotsis: What about startups that aren’t in your portfolio, because you said that only 10, 15 companies a year are responsible for 97 percent of the returns. Which enterprise companies that aren’t in your portfolio are you interested in?

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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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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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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global winners. What advice would you give on choosing co-founders? Obviously, co-founders have to be good at what they do too!

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Co-founders and outsourcing work the same. THANK YOU for your LOGICAL advice.

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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. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â??

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