Bootstrapping Community Programming Term Sheet 
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. According to Brian Parks, “Bigfoot provides RBI, term loans, and lines of credit to SaaS businesses with $500k+ ARR. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Alternative Capital. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Use the 10-5-3-1 formula for raising money: Have 10 great meetings with investors, 5 of those do detailed due diligience on your company, get 3 term sheets, and 1 transfer into your bank account! Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Find people to help you through the raising money process.
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Sophia Perl of Wisdom
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Use the 10-5-3-1 formula for raising money: Have 10 great meetings with investors, 5 of those do detailed due diligience on your company, get 3 term sheets, and 1 transfer into your bank account! Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Find people to help you through the raising money process.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2010
Dan Primack, who is now writing a great column at Fortune called Term Sheet used to do this; there are now guest writers (including me) who do this column. We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 19, 2010
In the meantime, I've been mostly focused on deal stuff and have been super excited to get as many deals done as I have--four assuming this last term sheet closes. So, I figured, why not ask the community? Being point on a program like this would certainly be a great challenge and opportunity. All of the above?
Life Beyond Code
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
1M/1M Program has a bold mission. I had an opportunity to catchup with Sramana and we talked about the program. By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 6, 2011
The reinforcement of his example, in hours of darkness, has offered me light and direction to take on a big, bold idea: restructuring capitalism through the 1M/1M program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. This is where numerous ventures fail.
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