Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, angels, and VCs. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, angels, and VCs. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, Angels, and VCs. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, angels, and VCs. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, Angels, and VCs. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet. This results in a range of sale prices; in this example from $118.6MM to $21MM. Let’s start at the end.   So, let’s assume here we have an 8% non-cumulative dividend.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal. link] Build a great team that can bootstrap « UpStart Advisors [.] link] Sunday links: « Colin J.

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