The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

I think it’s acceptable (but far from ideal) if you plan to bootstrap or self-finance the entire company until it’s profitable. You need to find someone willing to put in sweat equity, or to at least join as a full-on part of the team with a bit of a salary and a bit of an equity stake. Idea + product - team = Nothing.

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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.

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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.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

How do bootstrapped companies hire talent? Short answer: we posted in Craigslist for “Founding Engineers&# when we were starting and couldn’t pay salaries. How much should it cost for a bootstrapped, lean startup to incorporate (or form an LLC)? How do startup founders know when to quit, stick or pivot?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

How many founders are too many? You are the founder, the visionary, the uber-entrepreneur. VCs don’t fund sole founders and, if you are alone, you’ve either got too much ego or you can’t convince someone to join you. Two” – You have to have three founders. Shoulder – not to cry on, but to lean on.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question. Jason: Exactly. Jason: Yeah.

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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. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc.,

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Capital Factory is fortunate to have many co-founders and some that even joined a few years in. In 2012, when we opened up the coworking space Bill Boebel and Gordon became co-founders and helped establish the model that we have in place today. and some tough times where we had to lean on each other, too. Vice President?—?Operations

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