Version One Ventures
JULY 22, 2014
More money is flowing in from a new crop of angels, newly wealthy from a number of tech IPOs. AngelList makes it easier for founders to reach angels and there are hundreds of accelerators and incubators to choose from. That’s okay: many great companies have been built by bootstrapping.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 14, 2014
by Catherine Hoke, founder and CEO of Defy Ventures. The now successful CEO and founder of Brown Butter New York, a company that produces high-end cooking butter, was once a court-described “menace to society” whose life was overrun by drugs, gang-related assault, and armed robbery. Bootstrap your business.
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Scalable Startup
AUGUST 9, 2018
In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. Your strategy is to create growth with little or no money.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 13, 2014
By Paul Jackson, founder of Worthworm. Some entrepreneurs will choose to bootstrap their venture the best they can, while others will turn to trendier options such as crowd funding or a startup accelerator to get off the ground. Looking back to its origins you find it began with just $20,000 in seed money.
Rob Go
MARCH 20, 2013
What can founders do in advance to make the trough as shallow as possible? . If you are in the pre-product launch stage and want to ask random people what they think of your idea or product, don’t say “hi, I”m the founder of XYC company, can you tell me what you think of this product?”. Rob Go] This is a great question!
Scott Edward Walker
OCTOBER 28, 2014
This week, we present legendary angel investor Ron Conway (commonly referred to as the “ Godfather of Silicon Valley ”) and Marc Andreessen , a brilliant entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Bootstrap as long as you possibly can.” –Ron Ron Conway (at 1:37).
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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