ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. A lot of money can be made with this product, and Rajan needs to build it without any outside capital - that is, with customer money - that is, with revenue - for a long while yet. If you have to raise money, try to do so as convertible notes. Value Of Insight Consulting, Inc.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path.

North Carolina 116

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. We do not and will not have any particular focus on non profits that are dependent upon funding from charities.

India 116

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Overall, I like this notion of social shipping, since as we become a more global world, and as e-commerce takes off in more geographies, this could be a service not only applicable to Costa Rica, but much more broadly in many nations.

Costa Rica 114

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. I recently wrote an article on this topic, calling all EDA entrepreneurs to build $5 million to $10 million to $20 million cash businesses that are self-financed, bootstrapped, and built organically. Read EDA Entrepreneurs: Build To Enjoy.

Bootstrapping 113

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company. million in revenue. SOCO Games. The business is already profitable with $2.9 Discuss.

Dilution 114

Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2012

Starting your business with a very low investment is called “bootstrapping,” and these entrepreneurs usually have the most fun. There you can sell your products and services 24 hours per day, seven days a week, on a global basis. Make money whether you are working or sleeping. E-commerce on the Internet is a good example of this.

Bandwidth 236

Bandwidth Bootstrapping Equity Startup 236

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This is why I made the decision to bootstrap HighRadius. As a founder and CEO, the most important gift that bootstrapping gave me was the ability to slow down, speed up and pivot when and where we knew we needed to. Venture funding isn’t real validation – market traction and continued profitability and revenues are.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Bootstrapping Pre-Money Valuation 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2011

Starting your business with a very low investment is called “bootstrapping,” and these entrepreneurs usually have the most fun. There you can sell your products and services 24 hours per day, seven days a week, on a global basis. Make money whether you are working or sleeping. E-commerce on the Internet is a good example of this.

Entrepreneur 233

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2018

Over my career, I’ve built–and successfully sold–several software companies by bootstrapping. Celebrating small wins here and there certainly helps like the revenue goals, email list size goals, social followers and being recognized. Thanks to Olivia Goodrich, Global Investigation & Protection Agency ! #19-

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Green Networking Small Business 109

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. Gnosis India. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The revenue in 2012 was $16.4 Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay. Sramana Mitra is the founder of One Million by One Million (1M/1M), a global virtual incubator that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

Silicon Valley 266

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. There is no reason why she should do the pilots for free once she has a bit of credibility established.

Partner 117

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Gust

JULY 29, 2012

Starting your business with a very low investment is called “bootstrapping,” and these entrepreneurs usually have the most fun. There you can sell your products and services 24 hours per day, seven days a week, on a global basis. Make money whether you are working or sleeping. E-commerce on the Internet is a good example of this.

Bandwidth 155

Bandwidth Bootstrapping Equity Startup 155

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At present, ISA has a set of pilot clients and is toying with the idea of going global. Well, you can't really go "global" without a go-to-market strategy that evaluates different markets, and assesses the competitive positioning in each of them. It could be a good business to bootstrap the social/mobile edutainment business with.

Malaysia 114

Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff.

Cost 139

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Bootstrapping 114

Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2010

Starting your business with a very low investment is called “bootstrapping,” and these entrepreneurs usually have the most fun. There you can sell your products and services 24 hours per day, seven days a week, on a global basis. Make money whether you are working or sleeping. E-commerce on the Internet is a good example of this.

Bandwidth 128

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs.

Startup 113

Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator 113

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." System-Sea. What I liked about this company was its deep domain knowledge and niche nature.

Networking 115

Networking Partner Entrepreneur Bootstrapping 115

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff.

Burn Rate 125

Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

They should be built organically, bootstrapped, and get to sustainability. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits). It would go a long way in validating his assumptions and possibly also bring in customer revenues if the value proposition really resonates. Investors are optional in this equation. CricketWeekly.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. Orbiter expects to give its investors a 15 times return on investment based on their current pipeline and revenue forecast. Happy Grasshopper.

San Jose 115

San Jose Entrepreneur United States Washington 115

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs.

India 115

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue. In 1M/1M, we have extensive expertise on bootstrapping e-commerce businesses, and will be happy to help her navigate the paths of customer acquisition, inventory, merchandising, and financing. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

There’s a lot of questions about what do you actually need in terms of information, if you’re going to do your forecasting, and how does one put together a revenue forecast if you’ve never started a business or your business is brand new. You have visits that you assume through organic search engine optimization.

Lean 60

Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

Investment Capital When setting out to launch my online business, I had to bootstrap my way and set a limit on expenses. Without a budget to spend on outsourcing content creation, buying domains and web hosting, and marketing the sites to rank well on search engines, this project would have been a non-starter.

Entrepreneur 90

Entrepreneur Non-Compete Internet Dilution 90

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Where they don’t belong is with a bootstrapped founder trying to figure out how many customers she can expect to reach next month on her shoestring marketing budget. It then crunches those numbers together with an expected conversion rate and expected price to give you an idea of expected monthly revenue. 14,800, here we come!

Marketing 64

Marketing Software Review Matching Bootstrapping 64

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. Revenue is the new black | Gigaom – [link]. Revenue Doesn’t Matter – [link]. Search Engine Watch – [link]. IAB: US Interactive Ad Revenues Hit $9.3 33 Creative Global Warming Poster Designs for your inspiration – [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

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? You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! in a huge $77b market.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54