Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company. Individual and institutional philanthropy.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

After first working in banking and finance, Alejandro started and exited two other businesses before bringing his marketing and branding expertise to Candela. Entrepreneurs that know they’ve got gold cannot listen to the naysayers. Did you bootstrap the whole business or bring in outside investors? Tune them out.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup. What is a startup?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2010

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company. Individual and institutional donations.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

My Google Primer lesson has just gone live: “ Start Small and Grow on Your Own with Bootstrapping ”. Bootstrapping” is the strategy of growing your business through income – sales – or other personal or short-term financing (like credit cards) rather than going out and looking for investors or taking on significant debt.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. I am always fascinated by how innovative entrepreneurs get when faced with resource crunches. Read EDA Entrepreneurs: Build To Enjoy. Read Creative Bootstrapping to a $350 Million Exit.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? Today it would be near-impossible to bootstrap Smart Bear on those keywords. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? A lot of entrepreneurs think they need piles of money to make their startup a success, but that’s not always the case. Here are 10 bootstrapped companies that did it on their own with no outside funding. In January 2009 they won a Crunchie for best bootstrapped startup.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity?—?and If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! So what happened?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Step 5: Get financed. How to Do Market Research.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Story Of A Young Entrepreneur Building A Better World With A Nonprofit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Camden Francis In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Camden Francis. My dad also is an entrepreneur himself, so that's helpful. I'm very fortunate.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Aspiring entrepreneurs often see startups as their ticket to independence from the 9 to 5 work life. The business model and investors play a critical role in shaping the independence and work-style of an entrepreneur. In such cases, you could go for alternatives like purchase order financing, microloans or working capital loans.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. We now live in an anarconomy where entrepreneurs are making counter moves to disrupt the status quo so they can redefine commercial landscapes. The top down era of one size fits all. And now it is over.

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Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. If it was a distribution business, shipping costs were critical.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

If you’re a savvy entrepreneur, then you are always looking out for new opportunities to make money. Most entrepreneurs just don’t have the capital to strike out and launch their own business. It’s much lower cost, meaning it’s possible to bootstrap your way up. But getting established in any industry can be difficult.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Finding a Technical Cofounder by Mike Subelsky on September 17, 2010 Advice View Comments Over the past 18 months I’ve had the same conversation with about ten entrepreneurs looking to start a software-based business. One of the most bad-ass entrepreneurs in Baltimore is Scott Messinger. Like this Article? Your friends might too.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Go to meetings of any campus entrepreneurs groups. None of my friends and I are able to do this ourselves.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

One of the entrepreneurs presented a business idea that sounded like a business-to-consumer concept, but as I peeled the onion, it turned out that the business was really a business-to-business concept. Here I had an entrepreneur telling me with a straight face that he was leaving the most basic business decisions for the investors to make.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. All live happily ever after. It all sounds wonderful and it is.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When we see entrepreneurs come up with great ideas (and we see many), we hope that they also remember that while an idea is key, it won’t go anywhere without the right team in place. As entrepreneurs we need to recognize the importance of having a solid support system. be the manager and product developer).

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. free, distributed source code control management system. easy business finance software. SlideShare.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

But we had a solid product, strong weekly revenue growth (10% week over week), and two distribution/marketing channels that were already paying dividends. Incubators like Y Combinator are certainly a viable route to take to help you move from bootstrapped startup to seed round. Entrepreneur How-To''s' Wrapping It Up.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It’s become fashionable among some entrepreneurs, and even some venture capitalists, to badmouth the venture capital industry. But to paraphrase Winston Churchill, venture capital is the worst method for financing scaling startups except for all the others. The problem with bootstrapping is that you’re going it alone.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 4, 2011

How should I finance my new venture?  I looked at a medical product recently and asked the obvious questions about competition, distribution strategy, pricing, and so forth.  I sort of knew a couple of the probable answers but assumed the entrepreneur knew more. Startups and angels: Along the way to success.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Distribution challenges? Understand finance.  Never, ever “let Mikey do it.”  Know, yourself, how your venture is financed, what the alternatives are, and when you will know it is time to execute them. Distribution challenges? Understand finance. Bootstrapping.  Plan for how to get them.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Chris is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who has been a mentor for years. in line with the Texas Startup Manifesto the team that he manages is distributed across the state with members in Austin, Dallas and Houston. Operations and Finance We have many different business lines with internal dependencies between them.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

He is the known guru in business planning, particularly for small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs, although he’s worked with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies as well. ” and our first instinct as entrepreneurs and business owners is yes, let’s do drive-through. We want to do everything for everybody.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A group of seasoned Austin technology entrepreneurs and executives are announcing the formation of their new company, Mass Relevance , to help consumer brand use real-time social content to drive engagement on television, the web, and in the mobile world. Some started with funding and some were bootstrap.

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