ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is the new book by David Cohen , founder and CEO of TechStars, and Brad Feld , managing director of Foundry Group. Below is his chapter, Avoid Co-Founder Conflict. A perennial favorite is to decide that each founder should own an equal share. For what reasons?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

- Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. A great post by Elizabeth Knopf , FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder where she breaks down the process much like how you think about a sales process. Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. Startup founders typically invest some real dollars into their new startup as well as months or years of their time with no salary. Deep-dive meeting. Sweat equity. Ramen-profitable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Reinvest gross profit. Act big, behave small.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

17- Saturated with bootstrapped businesses. More entrepreneurs will therefore have to bootstrap their business. Since only certain types of businesses can be bootstrapped, I think the market for these types of businesses (selling digital services, selling small, hand-made products, local service providers) will become more saturated.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. What is bootstrapping? Why bootstrap?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

People are trapped at home, they are not getting a salary, and they are afraid to touch another person because no one knows who is and isn’t infected with the virus. In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. Ways to bootstrap a startup.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2015

How ironic that it seems like more than 90 percent of the online information on startups is about getting financed—but more than 90 percent of startups are bootstrapped. What does bootstrapping mean? ” See Also Should I Borrow Money, Seek Investment, or Bootstrap My Business? The bootstrapping founder takes all the risk.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Poornima Vijayashanker is the founder of Femgineer, helping entrepreneurs and tech professionals (especially women) level up their careers. My startup, BizeeBee, had run out of capital – and even though we were making money, it was just not enough to cover everyone’s salaries. At the end of 2012, I was in a really tight spot.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Castrina, author of “ 8 Unbreakable Rules For Business Start-Up Success “ If you’re bootstrapping your own business, you know all about doing more with less. Yes, some low-skill positions can be filled by just about anyone and shouldn’t come with a high salary. He is also founder of newbizcoach.org.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Reinvest gross profit. Act big, behave small.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

Salaries Startup Founders Pay Themselves | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1nHU2OK. Foreign Startup Founders Face Unique Struggles To Break Funding Barrier | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1mJ9Pjd. 15 Useful Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers | DJDESIGNERLAB – crowdspring.co/1iDkMPO.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

You will also find information provided by two people currently involved in the industry: Matthew Mercuri, Digital Marketing Manager at Dupray, and Simon Brooks, the founder of Squiffy Clean. According to data from PayScale’s salary questionnaire, house cleaners, nationwide, earned an average of $15.09 Overview of the industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Yet many entrepreneurs rely on expensive outside services and outside money, rather than do the networking for a co-founder or two who have the right skills to work for equity. Bootstrapping not only reduces cash needs, but increases commitment. A desire to roll out on a massive scale.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Image credit: Bootstrapping from Shutterstock. One of the earliest and most critical decisions an entrepreneur must make is whether to self-fund a startup by bootstrapping, or raise outside funding through venture capital.” – Forbes. Bootstrapped businesses work best when created on the side, on nights and weekends. Market Need.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She now recognizes the need to have co-founders. She hasn’t raised any venture capital.

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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

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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 19, 2012

My company is profitable, and has been from day one. – every high-tech bootstrapped founder I know what you really mean. The first and biggest error is thinking you can ignore your own salary. When your business throws off $1500/mo (without salaries), that’s not the case.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

I tell them that the projection process and results are most important for you the founder, to evaluate if there really is a business that can be built from the idea. I continually hear founders assert they will compete through lower margins and harder work. You shouldn’t invest in an undefined business.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Avoid the bootstrap trap. Commit to finding the resources to get the help you need, so you can quit your day job, pay yourself a salary, and give your business a chance to thrive. Too many startup founders skip this step, but a strong mental game is key to staying on track over the capital raising journey.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2018

For months, the founders knew deep down that we were just around the corner from closing, but they just hung on to the hope that things would improve. In the case of the failing business I was advising, one of the founders had left a decent job and invested his savings. Worse, they had little to no cash in their bank accounts.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 16, 2011

Bootstrapping is the name of the game for most startups. A bootstrapped startup also allows the entrepreneur to determine what the market really wants without having to lock in specific long-term expenses tied to a specific business model. In the bootstrap world you fight to survive. You watch every dollar very closely.

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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. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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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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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. To be clear, this isn’t your salary – this is your budget to run your company. Your salary does come from this number, but you also need to cover salaries of everyone else on your team (if there are others on your team). But most importantly, I love fundraising.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. To be clear, this isn’t your salary – this is your budget to run your company. Your salary does come from this number, but you also need to cover salaries of everyone else on your team (if there are others on your team). But most importantly, I love fundraising.

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Bryce Dot VC

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

As we walked around the block, away from the team and the screens in the office, the founder started to open up: “In the last year I’ve gained 20lbs, I’ve stopped exercising, I’m basically living at the office, not seeing my family, I’ve never been so stressed in my life.” No investor asked this of the founder.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

For those in our local startup community, you may have heard little about Tweaky.com It’s one of those ideas that just makes perfect sense in hindsight – or foresight for the founders at least. Well, the good news is that Ned needs you (oh, and PJ) as his (their) founders apprentice. not really, but you already knew tha!t).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

You know most startups fail “only&# because the founders stop working on them, and often, it’s because it’s emotionally draining. Four years into Smart Bear I had several employees getting paid decently (which at a bootstrapped startup is hard to do!), I’ve been there. Life was good! Is the money worth it?

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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.

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ithacaVC

APRIL 10, 2012

To put it bluntly, why should a founder, who knows that he/she will have little salary when they start their startup accrue the “lost” salary on the company’s books? It is part of the startup routine, prior to fund raising, to bootstrap and be super frugal. Enough said.

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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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