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Guy Kawasaki’s 10 Questions to Ask Before You Join a Startup

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However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. I worry about everything: money, sales, engineering, support, and recruiting. No customers no sales, no startup. Who is on your board of directors?

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

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The thing you need to be careful of, however, is only paying attention to big trends, because you never know when you're thinking big data and you miss the awesome direct sales jewelry company. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. Mobile Payment Disappointment.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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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. analyst (sit on butt and react to red light green light alerts all day). link] Build a great team that can bootstrap « UpStart Advisors [.] From Nothing To Something.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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However, enough on digital, so Sarah, please stop with the positive news- where will VC go to invest outside of net negative or zero ROI on green? The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. you are right about link sale forum not having good quality links.