Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

To increase your chances of venture capital financing, you’ll need to lower the risks as much as possible, such as: Bootstrapping as long as you can to get a working prototype into the market. However, there’s a challenge when your investors are also your customers. Following an iterative manufacturing process.

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Venture Capital Software Review Incubator Startup 128

Version One Ventures

JULY 22, 2014

If not, revenue from your customers will be your best source of financing. That’s okay: many great companies have been built by bootstrapping. There’s a lot of “easy” early-stage money floating around right now, but don’t get fooled into taking seed money if you don’t have a viable path for later rounds.

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Finance Seed Money Bootstrapping Angel Investor 167

Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

The best trick I’ve heard (which is actually really hard to do) is to talk to customers, but to do it from the perspective of a skeptic. We want to bootstrap as much as possible and believe we can because we should be profitable by summer (not a lot of profit, but some). Be brutally honest with yourself.

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Hippoland

APRIL 24, 2016

Company A: -Raised a seed round of $500k -Now raising another seed round of $2.5m to expand the business Company B: -Raised a seed round of $2m -Now raising another seed round of $1m to expand the business Should both companies successfully raise, they would’ve raised the same total amount of seed money - $3m.

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Seed Money Bootstrapping B2B Acquisition 48

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

William Bygrave, an entrepreneurship professor at Babson College, cautioned in an article for The Wall Street Journal: What we really don’t want to do is literally spend a year or more essentially writing a business plan without knowing we have actual customers. Successful entrepreneurs move quickly.

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Washington Incubator Cofounder Angel Investor 48

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. Thus engineers who have the know how would be an asset. All what you said is so true. How To Get There.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84