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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Bootstrapping. I always recommend that you start with bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is when you put your own money or borrow from friends and family to set up your business. Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? Sources of funding. ?

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Refine your elevator pitch. Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder Here are a few perspectives on the topic of finding technical cofounders: In Building a sweat equity team , Joel on Software tells us: You simply need to network. Go to user groups.

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Venture Pitch: A View From the Trenches

Austin Startup

and an investor pitch that I’ll be presenting in front of 150 people on Thursday. I bootstrapped my first “real&# company 3 years ago. I found TechRanch Austin and signed up for their Venture Forth program, an 8-week entrepreneurial bootcamp designed to support and rapidly accelerate new ventures. The dreaded pitch.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. This is a radical departure from a traditional VC pitch. Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Thanks and keep up the good work! is quite good.

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Startup CEO (OnlyOnce- the book!), Part III – Pre-Order Now

OnlyOnce

The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ questions”.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. Elevator Pitches. Codeacademy.

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Your Business “Driving Force”

market-by-numbers.com

The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy. The “encroachment&# of business or engineering on design is (theoretically) dependent on the driving force, rather than personal bias.