www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. What is bootstrapping? Why bootstrap?

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

We’ve bootstrapped since we launching. But, based on our sales and the amount we we’re looking to raise, $60-$120K, it could have meant giving up over 40% equity. Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways? ” In tech terms, our first 3 locations were phase 1, 2 & 3 MVPs. .”

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

Days before the conference started, I was asked (and felt honored) to lead two workshops on bootstrapping vs. raising money. Having started and sold 3 successful bootstrapped businesses, and am now running 1 venture capital backed business ( Coach ), this is a topic I know a thing or two about. What's “good” about bootstrapping.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

This seems like an easy topic – debt where there is appropriate cash flow, equity when there isn’t.    And, while debt is less costly than equity, it can bankrupt a company more quickly than more expensive equity might. Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow? This is an equity example, of course. 

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Bigfoot Capital.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. VIII: The Leading Flexible VCs, With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing. We plan to raise $2.5m

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Raise your first round of money, or bootstrap. You either do it on your own, taking all risks and responsibility yourself (“bootstrapping”), or you find investors that believe in your company. I’ve seen a few businesses where the first investors took huge pieces of equity for very little money. 15-20% equity for first investors.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 16, 2012

Amanda Aitken , The Girl’s Guide to Web Design. Without any brand equity and very little capital, our startup, like many others, attracted only mediocre talent in our early stages. Bootstrapping the Company. Bootstrapping has been our most gut-wretching choice in building our business. Burning Through the Talent Pool.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Whether it is credit or equity, funding is very, very tight. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. I gave Gio some advice on funding, which I will repeat here for all of you. This is important, so please listen up. We are, at this time, in one of the tightest funding environments of the last 15 years.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the U.S. At the same time, we also have seen several examples of entrepreneurs who have successfully bootstrapped their e-commerce companies without any external financing until much later in the game. Or, bootstrap longer.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. He believes that equity need not be distributed equally, as long as everyone involved is happy with their arrangement. How to Hack the Investment World. The stages of funding.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 4: Telling the Story to Your Team…Defining Your Mission, Vision and Values, The Top-down Approach, The Bottom-Up Approach, The Hybrid Approach, Design a Lofty Mission Statement. Chapter 38: Working with the Board on Your Compensation and Review…The CEO’s Performance Review, Your Compensation, Incentive Pay, Equity, Expenses.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 16, 2012

Amanda Aitken , The Girl’s Guide to Web Design 3. Burning Through the Talent Pool Without any brand equity and very little capital, our startup, like many others, attracted only mediocre talent in our early stages. Bootstrapping the Company Bootstrapping has been our most gut-wretching choice in building our business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 23, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! The problem was billions of dollars of debt incurred by a private equity firm extracting capital via an LBO. How can this be true?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

Recognizing this challenge, we developed a short list of pre-launch steps designed to increase your probability of startup success. Having these estimates in hand will help you decide if you can bootstrap your business or if you will need to raise funding. The steps focus you on developing your business model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

And so that book, the book is designed to give entrepreneurs really practical and concrete advice on how to avoid all the pitfalls of doing a startup and act and come out on top. Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. So I know what it's like.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Entrepreneurs, which by definition are stubborn entities are therefore finding creative and cheap ways to bootstrap their startups. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2014

What’s often been labeled the ‘Maker Movement’, we’re in a time when independent designers, developers, tinkerers and engineers can come up with a unique offering and within a few days have hundreds of thousands of people backing them online through these crowdfunding platforms.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 23, 2017

If a genius designer starts a design agency doing genius stuff, they can never really sell or step away from it because their product is too entangled with the founder’s own skills. Lastly, something I do myself is equity swapping. we each pool 200k worth of equity). This can be a fixed percentage (eg.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 20, 2015

Independent businesses should provide equity or equity-like profit sharing to all employees that should be reported in percentage of company/profits vs. number of shares. The conversation is in the air, and it’s one we’re trying to help facilitate through Indie.vc. A “Declaration of Independents” if you will.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AWS EdStart – is the AWS educational technology (EdTech) startup accelerator, designed to help entrepreneurs build the next generation of online learning, analytics, and campus management solutions on the AWS Cloud. Amazon Pay – For startup payment acceptance and collection.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. Cash is tight. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

But travel, particularly for early-stage and bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are physically far away, can be hard to swing. Individuals can apply, but the scholarship application form is designed for a community leader to bring in a group from a geographic area or from an incubator/accelerator program.

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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? Too much money too early kills many startups, according to investors.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Two-and-a-half months ago Einar Vollset and I announced TinySeed , the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. And we received offers of support from successful founders who have raised funding, bootstrapped, and those who’ve done both: +1 on that! The response was overwhelming. Previously On.TinySeed.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Since we bootstrapped Backblaze, early on we would have months when the company did not have enough cash from sales to buy the additional servers it needed. The last is a designer. Your company needs to be worth three times more for your equity to be worth the same. Shoulder – not to cry on, but to lean on.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MAY 19, 2010

But bootstrapping has found its way to the recruiting process. Ben Cunningham passed along a website that is specifically designed to connect employees with jobs in start-up businesses called jobnob. Ben Cunningham passed along a website that is specifically designed to connect employees with jobs in start-up businesses called jobnob.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

The investors and the entrepreneurs are – or should be – aware that the price of the company’s equity is set by the market – in simplest terms, what an informed buyer is willing to pay.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Now, the fully bootstrapped company is turning 60% of its demos into paid customers and hitting $2.5 Co-founder and CEO Kyle Wong, who was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List, says the company’s MVP was built using “sweat equity.” That same year, I started a web development and CRO-focused design agency.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Business, Engineering, Computer Science, and Design were all represented. And now I know exactly where I want to spend my time" "This internship truly provide me an entry point into the private equity world. Bootstrapping 101. The opportunity provided by the [E-Lab] has been truly inspiring. ► July. (1). ► May. (1).

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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? Too much money too early kills many startups, according to investors.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

equity debate. You can bootstrap your way into existence. Converts versus equity deals - Chris Dixon , August 31, 2010 There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using equity or convertible notes (converts). Have convertible notes really won? believe that is certainly true.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This morning Seth Godin published a post titled Debt, equity and a third thing that might work better. Here’s the deal: I work in the bootstrapped startup world and in this arena you don’t need $500k to build a product. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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