Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Based on the Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom a while back, personal money, or bootstrapping, continues to be the primary startup funding source. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Bootstrapping. I always recommend that you start with bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is when you put your own money or borrow from friends and family to set up your business. Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? Sources of funding. ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup. Thus, you must manage your available finances wisely.

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Gust

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Based on the Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom a while back, personal money, or bootstrapping, continues to be the primary startup funding source. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

What about bootstrapping? And this isn’t just for your business, but as many startup founders know, your personal finances can matter just as much (especially if you aren’t profitable yet). “Make sure you’re on top of your personal finances, and project how long you can last on that money,” Nelson advises.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ Chapter 8: The CEO as Functional Supervisor…Rules for General Managers.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2018

For many, “bootstrapping” involves lots of ramen noodle dinners, working weekends, and foregone hobbies. If you’re going to finance startup-related purchases with a credit card anyhow, why not use one that pays you back? A full-time office manager when a virtual assistant is sufficient? Are You Living Lean?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Google Primer, a free app from Google, has developed a number of small business and marketing lessons — each of which you can complete in a manageable five minutes. My Google Primer lesson has just gone live: “ Start Small and Grow on Your Own with Bootstrapping ”.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 31, 2018

You don’t necessarily need a degree in business or finance to be successful. This is also a great time to do market research , build your website , and figure out how you’ll manage your bookkeeping in the early days. Start with a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan is actually a better alternative to the Business Model Canvas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

Based on the latest Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom, personal money, or bootstrapping, continued to be the primary startup funding in 2012. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. be the manager and product developer). Leader/Project Manager – Someone in the organization must drive the plan and keep people focused on a daily basis.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 14, 2010

But, they still want high growth and they will be VERY active in the management of the business. And bootstrap every chance you get! The new reality of financing does not mean we are entering an age when no exciting new start-ups will be emerging. They bootstrapped and focused on getting cash flowing as soon as possible.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Kassar had spent a decade in senior management with a large, national credit card company based in Philadelphia. He started Multifunding, which helps small businesses find debt financing. So start lean, bootstrap whenever possible and make operating frugally a part of the culture of your business as it grows.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. What CEOs, management teams and shareholders care about is growth —revenue growth, greater user adoption, increased market share, bigger margins, etc. Again, absolutely true.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

As with anything, learning to manage, learning to be the boss and learning to run a business, are just things that happen over time and with practice. Beyond this list I encourage you to read about running and managing a business every day. Week 2 – Getting financed. You can do it even if you start from home.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. If you’re a founder/product manager/business owner, I encourage you to find that out!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Jared: Yeah, I think initially the real focus of Padseeker is going to be an on-demand solution to create a website for property management. I mean, imagine, in an abstract sense, how you might download, say, WordPress, and you’re doing that for content management, or for a blog. So it’s property management software?

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In this guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been-there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. Watch your finances. Friends and family are the most common backers, and many startups bootstrap.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Most of our executives were previously involved as Mentors and most of our managers started as individual contributors. in line with the Texas Startup Manifesto the team that he manages is distributed across the state with members in Austin, Dallas and Houston. and some tough times where we had to lean on each other, too.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Management. 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. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Manage Email Preferences.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 2, 2018

He is the founder of Top Line Results , a management consulting firm, and the co-author of a book we’re going to talk about today called Inbound Organization: How to Build and Strengthen Your Company’s Future Using Inbound Principles. They had no choice but to build their company this way, because they were bootstrapping.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? There is no cookie-cutter formula.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Steve Blank.

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