View from Seed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Scott’s thought leadership is popular and widely followed, and you’ll want to hear some of the things he did to bootstrap Behance and gain initial traction, not least of which was creating and selling a paper notebook as his very first product. DESIGNER CONTRIBUTORS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE). Listen and subscribe on iTunes.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Product Bootstrapping Portfolio 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Scott’s thought leadership is popular and widely followed, and you’ll want to hear some of the things he did to bootstrap Behance and gain initial traction, not least of which was creating and selling a paper notebook as his very first product. DESIGNER CONTRIBUTORS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE). Listen and subscribe on iTunes.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Product Bootstrapping Portfolio 120

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Increasingly, seed rounds occur after some sort of pre-seed or at least some period of bootstrapping. One of the biggest rookie mistakes I see among founders pursuing seed rounds is that they’ve spent too much time building something vs. proving something.

Seed Stage 180

Seed Stage Bootstrapping Demand Early Stage 180