Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2011

For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Personal loans from individuals, employees and board members. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Personal loans from individuals, employees and board members. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries.

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Angel Investor Equity Technical Review Exit Strategy 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Bootstrapping is always a great alternative, since you can retain full ownership and make all your own decisions. If your goal is to compete with Jeff Bezos, then be prepared to manage thousands of locations and employees around the world, with all the issues to get exponential growth. What do you see as your legacy and exit strategy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2010

For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Personal loans from employees and board members. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries.

Angel Investor 143

Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 143

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more than 30 employees, and more than $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones.

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Incubator Exit Strategy Institutional Investors Angel Investor 236

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

According to Lee M Von Kraus, PHD and a mentor at Clarity.fm, “Early stage startups are usually pre-money startup that are bootstrapping the early development of a product.”. By offering the advantages of your company, you will be able to find some great employees. Is there an exit strategy? Entering the Market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more than 30 employees, and more than $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones.

Incubator 120

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. A year from now that’s projected to go as high as 100. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2010

One key buzzword is the exit strategy. The exit is when the investors get money back from the money they invested earlier. Exit used to be going public, meaning getting formally approved and registered to have the company’s stock available on the stock market. That’s quite common.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dig Deeper: Fitting Technology into Your Corporate Strategy Hiring a CTO: Define Your Needs A new employee – especially a high-ranking hire who will be managing staff, overseeing a budget and reporting to your board of directors – needs to be part of the long-term corporate strategy. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 27, 2011

There are plenty of folks who wouldn’t sell their company for a billion dollars; Jason Fried and Joel Spolsky are public examples from the bootstrapped startup world. HIM: Yeah, in fact one of my best employees doesn’t like [big company] and has threatened to leave if we do it, which would make it hard to continue this growth.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. To hire key employees. I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. It’s about not having competition, whether by conversion or just putting everyone’s revenue in the same pot.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies. Bob Ktastic , Social gaming Pioneer 6 votes by Mike DeVerna , Anon User, Andy Wright , (more) Mike DeVerna , Anon User, Andy Wright , David Yousling , Ankit Singh and Philip Wilkinson Ideally and we are talking from the bootstrapping stage you would want the following.

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