Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. I don’t make it out to SF much, but for special occasions I will. The crowd turnout was pretty good and the event was well organized with plenty of food and drinks.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2013

Bootstrapped, lean and already providing (in a small way at least) for the needs of my family and that of my co-founder. By the time demo day came around, we had cheques being written and were all over the press. The day we set foot into the doors of the accelerator, we had a business that DHH would be proud of.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." Vishal showed a terrific demo that was full of cool features but completely out of context.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Even once it had access to capital, Cornerstone kept its bootstrap mindset. Miller detailed a series of crises that took place at Cornerstone roughly every $3 million in revenue. See also: Here are 9 of our favorite startups from LA’s Silicon Beach Fest demo day. Image credit: iStockphoto.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Here is a 60-second tour of IM Creator: IM Creator is bootstrapped with $250k from the founder Jonathan Saragossi, and a few unknown angel investors. million, has revenues of over $2 million a year. The team of 8 web designers and coders have launched the public beta in May 2011. Squarespace – raised $38.5

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David Cohen

JULY 28, 2013

If you’re interested in checking out Demo Day in September, just let me know. I’m not saying this is better or worse than how seed funding happens in the US, but it does seem to cause more UK entrepreneurs to self-fund, bootstrap, focus on revenue earlier than might be natural–or simply decide to pursue their business in the US.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This book is steeped in the knowledge of how to scale your sales team, written by people that constantly consult in this area (and thank you to Bijoy Goswami, founder of Bootstrap Austin, for the recommendation to read this book eight years ago?—?make Third, you need a really great demo. make that fourteen years now).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue. The artists had very few sales of albums, but gave a concert and commodity revenue. Are DEMO's days numbered? Bootstrapping 101.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

You add that, now that they’re interested, you told them the story, they see the market, you’re demoing the product, you’re showing traction, they get it. Heaven forbid, if things are worse than expected, we see that and we connect the expense dots to the revenue dots. This will be context specific.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

I'm a great example of someone who wasn't an authority on anything , but built that authority over time to the point where now my company (Smart Bear) is untouchable as the leader in both revenue and ideas in the area of peer code review. But how does authority convert to revenue? That's just one example!

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Fewer demos this time. Artists are using Social Media as a a catalyst to boost popularity, create new revenue streams and promote global goodness. Bootstrapping a community from zero users. Current undergrads who participate can attend the Tech Meetup for free and some guest entrepreneurs even stop by once in a while.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

No amount of learning how to get a VC meeting or improving your VC demo skills will fix the lack of concrete customer data. A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Get back up and running.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). While bootstrapping, there are multiple options from doing as a side project, changing the business, raising angel or venture, etc. Are DEMO's days numbered?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

As t approaches infinity, Demo Dayapproaches an auction. Bootstrapping (= Consulting) Some would-be founders may by now be thinking, why deal with investorsat all? We could not have bootstrapped Viaweb, for example. The merefact that bootstrapped startups tend to be famous on that accountshould set off alarm bells.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. Does a complicated sales build model make sense for a pre-revenue SaaS company? I often do this in the revenue tab.

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Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

Are DEMO's days numbered? Bootstrapping 101. job existed for every $37,702 of venture capital invested from 1970-2008 Lets assume these statistics are true (of course that may be a leap, as my wise father-in-law used to say, "Figures Lie and Liars figure"). How Much Diligence is Due. ▼ 2010. (7). ► October. (2).

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Thoughts on business and technology Home Archives Profile Subscribe About Me « Boston VCs gets first look at Y Combinator Demo Day | Main | Digg-nation is HUGE! In that case, VC money is used mainly for "acceleration" and not for bootstrapping. Most startups fail.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Think/Plan about Site revenue model. ” Chris Coyier: I’m serving responsive layouts, use of Twitter-bootstrap, Skeleton, and custom media query based responsive layouts. Build demos with our in-browser code editor. Web Design. Web Development. iOS Development. Show search box. Search in: All. Navigation n Search.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. 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). Now, I know that I need to build all the demo of my product A.L.O.N.E. Anti Matter Dude you are so on the money.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

We also enable conference organizers and presenters to do the following: Exhibitor platform - provides product demos so visitors can see their latest products (new product announcements) without necessarily visiting their booth. Yair Margolin: We are enabling the user to see each conference before, during and after the event.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 14, 2013

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Your bootstrapped startup is finally off the ground. So a 10% improvement in bounce-rate off your pricing page means 10% more revenue across all campaigns: paid, organic, and word-of-mouth. You’re able to spend $6000/mo on AdWords to drive leads.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

When we went out to raise money, we raised with only a couple thousand dollars in monthly recurring revenue. But we had a solid product, strong weekly revenue growth (10% week over week), and two distribution/marketing channels that were already paying dividends. What Does Traction Look Like? Traction is different for every product.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Yes its great to implement "task A", but will it drive revenue? Insightful. Thanks much. How much effort will it cost?

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