Remove Bootstrapping Remove Demand Remove Programming Remove Seed Capital
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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

In early 2011, I wrote a post, Startups: Not for the faint of heart , that discussed Parse.ly’s survival through a one-year bootstrapping period after Dreamit Ventures Philly ’09. No Bootstrapping Plan : Many startups that come out of an accelerator program (such as YCombinator, Dreamit, or TechStars) simply do not get funding.

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TinySeed Applications Open January 18th

Software By Rob

Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding. ” That is, a group of 10-20 companies going through the program together. The response was overwhelming.