Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

There is additional encouraging news for aspiring entrepreneurs on many fronts, just in case you are thinking about joining the existing ranks: Valuations of successful startups have hit an all-time high. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping you growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Following is my prioritized larger list of sources, with some “rules of thumb” which may save you a lot of time and energy: Bootstrapping. Friends and family.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

Does A Billion-Dollar Valuation Buy Employee Happiness? 4 Surprising SEM Stats Every E-Commerce Marketer Should Know | Search Engine Land – crowdspring.co/1kD9ZHH. 15 Best Bootstrap Design Tools – crowdspring.co/1ncKgIa. It takes 3 years [before you know if your startup can be a real business] – crowdspring.co/1kK2ZJ8.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Why not go further, develop more valuation, customer experience, and really, deeply validate the business? As far as customer acquisition is concerned, we discussed, again the power of organic search engine optimization. So, in Gio's situation, it is clear to me that he is able to get customers to buy.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation. Foregone wages for an engineer aren't the same as foregone wages for a prototype designer. Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business.

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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. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and began his career as an SAP consultant.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

The company also never raised any previous financing, and is one of the great bootstrapped success stories out there. And a little less relevant is DropBox, part of Cambridge Y-Combinator class back in 2007, this year raised over $250M at ~$4B valuation. Gazelle: Market leading consumer reCommerce service raised $22M.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

So it IPO’ed at a $13b valuation but has dropped month-over-month to one-fourth that value and appears to be in “constant pivot mode” while they try to figure out a new, massive market for which their existing infrastructure is an asset. It’s my goal to join the ranks of those excellent companies at WP Engine.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

As an investor, "if you are looking for the next Google, you don't care if you invest at a $20 million valuation because the company is going to be worth billions. Lecture topic : Luck, Bootstrapping, and Optimizing Your Happiness. Paul Graham: Co-founder, Y Combinator. Lecture topic : Startup Funding - Super Angels versus VCs.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This book is steeped in the knowledge of how to scale your sales team, written by people that constantly consult in this area (and thank you to Bijoy Goswami, founder of Bootstrap Austin, for the recommendation to read this book eight years ago?—?make At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

What is the post-money valuation of your last round? Post-money valuation” is the value of the company after the last round of money was put in (again, lines of credit and promises don’t count). Has anyone in the engineering team actually shipped a product? Hopefully, there are one or two well-known venture capitalists.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

As well as tripling the company’s valuation to $4 billion since January 2021, the round came as the company grew its monthly processing volumes by 5,000% in 18 months. But we learned so much, our engineers could develop a product that would imitate many of the things we did manually. We’d then manually update the accounting software.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. e.g. invest $2 mil and expect a $60-$100 mil valuation for exit. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. I think you'll see a lot of focus on companies like Tumblr, Twitter, Foursquare and Pinterest--services that haven't really established a business model yet to justify their sky high valuations. What will Facebook do to things?

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Upon graduating college with a degree in engineering, he got a job at Lockheed Martin. You start with smaller amounts, and then as your business makes progress (and your valuation increases), you are eligible for larger rounds of capital. Last year, Luke Fishback was bootstrapping PlotWatt. Luke Fishback is a bright guy.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The most common solution is that you “bootstrap” your business, or fund it yourself, at least to the point that your “traction” is evident (you have a product, you have customers, you have revenue). The CEO is expected to make the presentations to investors, and answer questions decisively. But don’t let that discourage you.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

The company has bootstrapped using services, a philosophy we espouse heavily in 1M/1M, and has simultaneously gathered a group of angel investors who are supporting it through the next phase. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on. It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company. SOCO Games. Photo by nosheep.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Through the series of funding rounds, companies do not need to go through an IPO to obtain capital or a higher valuation. photo featuring the guitar because Austin Foster notes of Taylor’s experience, “the benefits of bootstrapping come down to what Taylor calls ‘optionality.’ Imagine that. too obvious?) United Airlines staff?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is right that Google and Facebook pride themselves on being engineering organizations (note - so did Microsoft). It is interesting to see the emphasis that both Twitter and Quora have put on product design, not just engineering. Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. Yes, I am sure Davids venture is eminently fundable within a few months.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. Yes, I am sure Davids venture is eminently fundable within a few months.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 12, 2017

You over-engineered some parts and missed the mark on others. Every extra sign of life you can prove while bootstrapping is going to boost your valuation and equate to free money. You crack out some of those clutch features that have been sitting in the backlog for too long. No big deal, you’ve got the runway.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

The Journal of Advertising Research evaluated athlete endorsements effect on both stock market valuation and sales data. Google Forms (if you really need to bootstrap). Reviews not indexed by search engines, but easier to verify). Some tools you can use are: Customer Service/Feedback. Getsatisfaction.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

One of them that was in that book was called engineering as marketing, which make sense to us, our customers are engineers, and so basically the point of that was to build a tool that our customers could use, that they would be searching for this tool. Fast forward a couple years.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

If you manage to raise funding in such a situation, it will be at an unfavorable valuation. Speaking of valuations, there are at least three avenues an entrepreneur can take to secure funding for her/his project. Bootstrapping. There is hardly anything worse than having a half-built product and no money to complete it.

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