Remove Bootstrapping Remove Elevator Pitch Remove Revenue Remove Vertical
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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Get back up and running. Thanks and keep up the good work!

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Q&A Wednesday :: GuruStorms

Austin Startup

Q: Give us the elevator pitch that you gave at SXSW Accelerator? If you have a difficult question or problem that requires deep vertical knowledge, you can post it as a brainstorm on the site, along with a reward ranging from $1000 to $5000. GuruStorms has been completely bootstrapped thus far.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

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