Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. They require exhaustive and money-consuming tests and trial periods, followed by bureaucratic approval cycles that can take forever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Fund it yourself (bootstrapping) and do it yourself entrepreneurs are the best kind, because they can focus on the business, rather than fund raising, and have full control of their destiny. Personalize a simple web site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort. Plan and execute a pilot or local rollout.

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Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review Business Model 220

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort. Plan and execute a pilot or local rollout.

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Technical Review Product Advisory Board Business Model 399

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? Funding process.

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Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. Obviously, if you bootstrap your business, you can avoid all these stages and the investment implications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? Funding process.

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Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. Obviously, if you bootstrap your business, you can avoid all these stages and the investment implications.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? Funding process.

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Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 239

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

So before you quit your day job, task all your friends and investors for money, or max out your credit cards to design and build a product, I recommend that you seriously contemplate the following more basic questions: Are you prepared to adopt the entrepreneur lifestyle? Money is not a substitute.

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Columbus Bootstrapping Equity Entrepreneur 312

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort. Plan and execute a pilot or local rollout.

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Business Model Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. With more startups, angels still limit their focus to about one out of 40 requests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2019

So before you quit your day job, task all your friends and investors for money, or max out your credit cards to design and build a product, I recommend that you seriously contemplate the following more basic questions: Are you prepared to adopt the entrepreneur lifestyle? Money is not a substitute.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2017

So before you quit your day job, tax all your friends and investors for money, or max out your credit cards to design and build a product, I recommend that you seriously contemplate the following more basic questions: Are you prepared to adopt the entrepreneur lifestyle? Money is not a substitute.

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Columbus Bootstrapping Equity Entrepreneur 227

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2015

So before you quit your day job, tax all your friends and investors for money, or max out your credit cards to design and build a product, I recommend that you seriously contemplate the following more basic questions: Are you prepared to adopt the entrepreneur lifestyle? Money is not a substitute.

Columbus 120

Columbus Entrepreneur Bootstrapping Equity 120