ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

18- Desire to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. The main driving force behind us wanting to start a business was our desire to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. We felt that we should be the first brand to share this wealth of knowledge from India to the world.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Please try to understand why.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. Next Laval Bhatt with Trinity Business Solutions discussed his fledgling consulting company in India offering business requirements analysis and a set of other services to IT consulting companies and a variety of other segments. Photo by wax115.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company. Clearly, it can go much further, and Hicham is trying to decide whether he grows organically, or raises outside financing.

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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. Gnosis India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. Photo by wax115.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Benson's business needs $500,000 to get off the ground, buy a machine, and meet the operating expenses, and he primarily came to discuss his financing options. My assessment is that this is not a traditional venture financing type deal. Qualitas Technologies. Photo by svilen001.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. All this, could, potentially, be done without external financing. And along the way, if necessary and appropriate, she can raise financing with a vastly more validated business. At this point, financing discussions are premature and are likely not to yield success.

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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. 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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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.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. He is looking for financing for the show. And that is what I advised J.J.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

He is looking to raise money now, but I must say, his financing strategy made me cringe. Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. We have to work on that! Financial Consulting Service. Photo by designkryt.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed. I have a fundamental observation to make here that seems to be lost in the noisy universe of entrepreneurs' obsession with fund-raising: Most companies should not raise external financing. His firm invests in four. That's a 0.21% hit rate.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. However, how do you get to critical mass, and how do you finance the period during which this business runs on red ink? How much time do you budget for red ink financing? Once there is critical mass, lots of business can, indeed, happen.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

New Global Markets. First up, David Nordell from Kfar Ya'avetz, Israel, pitched New Global Markets , a solution for making it easier for banks to offer their customers global banking facilities. For example, say, Barclays has a customer in the UK who also wants a bank account in India.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. You have to finance the period of traffic building that is pretty much red-ink financing. Spencer needs to think through a strategy for bootstrapping that phase.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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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. This, of course, doesn't mean that we discourage entrepreneurs from seeking financing.

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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. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *. Customer service. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. Grasshopper â??

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