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

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

That means coming up with revenue and expense assumptions that balance your natural optimism and determine how much cash the business will really need. Then take your revenue projections and cut them in half. Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? Don’t formalize the business until you get revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

That means coming up with revenue and expense assumptions that balance your natural optimism and determine how much cash the business will really need. Then take your revenue projections and cut them in half. Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? Don’t formalize the business until you get revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

That means coming up with revenue and expense assumptions that balance your natural optimism and determine how much cash the business will really need. Then take your revenue projections and cut them in half. Are you going to bootstrap, or borrow from personal assets? Don’t formalize the business until you get revenue.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 2: Defining and Testing the Story…Start Out By Admitting You’re Wrong, A Lean Business Plan Template, Problem, Solution, Key Metrics, Unique Value Proposition and Unfair Advantages, Channels, Customer Segments, Cost Structure and Revenue Streams. Chapter 3: Telling the Story to Your Investors…The Business Plan is Dead.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding. Here’s a framework you can use to craft your email messaging: Forget contrived personalization; get right to the point: Use the first line of your email to present what your content is about. Let’s say you provide creative services to paid media specialists.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Hard to know, but an important question for a bootstrap startup to answer! Here’s a simple framework for how to come up with those numbers. With WPEngine recently I had yet another question to answer: “What if I took $X/mo salary, then how much equity would you part with? What about $Y/mo?&#

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Well of course we’re focusing on this and that, and you can take a lot of times with frameworks or whatever, I say that doesn’t matter. I’m not going to read this to you, but swat, core competence and et cetera, these are ideas and the goal is focus and I really don’t care what framework.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." Stopwaitin.com. System-Sea.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

For those that are familiar with Studio Press, it was pretty much the industry standard for word press things for many, many years powered by the [Janis 00:01:44] framework, which is our design framework that makes word press more powerful and easier to use. We got to thousands of customers and millions in recurring revenue.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). This is obvious. They sell their hardware at cost – say a new refrigerator.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). This is obvious. They sell their hardware at cost – say a new refrigerator.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I started embracing it as a framework on my podcast around 2010, and in 2013 I gave it a name. I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. I call it The Stairstep Approach.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I started embracing it as a framework on my podcast around 2010, and in 2013 I gave it a name. I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. I call it The Stair Step Approach.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Should you bootstrap? Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. But if I'm out there listening, you know, what are some of the, what are just some of the places that you go looking, I know you have a framework you call the Miles framework.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

While many entrepreneurs find it difficult to answer all the questions in the CYS framework, I strongly recommend that you address the following items in your roundtable pitch at the minimum: A validated customer value proposition. Detailed segmentation analysis and target customer definition at a fairly granular level.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I started embracing it as a framework on my podcast around 2010, and in 2013 I gave it a name. I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. I call it The Stairstep Approach.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So I mentioned in the intro that you have customers in over 170 countries today, but you essentially were bootstrapped in the very beginning. I mean, is there any kind of one people management philosophy that you swear by Jason (07:52): Not a singular philosophy or framework that's out there? John (02:33): Yeah.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

The best startups, of course, are those who help the world become a better place, but unless your revenue exceeds your expenses and your work results in profit, you are doing charity, not running a business. Steve Blank promotes this framework and it has been used by a lot of startups in the Silicon Valley.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Think/Plan about Site revenue model. ” Chris Coyier: I’m serving responsive layouts, use of Twitter-bootstrap, Skeleton, and custom media query based responsive layouts. I’ve just seen too many projects fail (or come close to failing) because developers treat JQuery like a framework and not a library.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

This will achieve both customer intimacy and bootstrap funding from customers. Ido Volff from Tel-Aviv, Israel, pitched Sleeve , a framework for social learning that he is testing at three Israeli colleges and universities. Intellectual property rights need to be negotiated accordingly.

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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. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, 1M/1M Program has a bold mission.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

They threw a pizza party that first night, they've now raised millions of dollars and have thrown hundreds of thousands more, not just in support of frontline workers, but in support of restaurants who, as everyone knows, are struggling in these times with a dramatic decline in revenue, in customers. So Frontline Foods is a genuine win-win.

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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. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, What makes 1M/1M unique?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.)

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Architecture and frameworks can/should be planned up front to at least "leave room" for things that are known to be coming at a later date.

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