Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

To increase your chances of venture capital financing, you’ll need to lower the risks as much as possible, such as: Bootstrapping as long as you can to get a working prototype into the market. How a Garage-Based Incubator Is Fueling the Hardware Revolution (adafruit.com). Following an iterative manufacturing process. Related articles.

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Venture Capital Software Review Incubator Startup 128

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.

Finance 167

Finance Seed Money Bootstrapping Angel Investor 167

Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

We want to bootstrap as much as possible and believe we can because we should be profitable by summer (not a lot of profit, but some). Our desire to bootstrap may be a good thing because we don’t believe our industry is one where we could have a huge exit and potentially attract investors before we get there.

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Bootstrapping Finance Dividend Vesting 46

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money. They didn’t have the ability to crowdfund or go to an incubator either, so they did the only thing they could do in 1996: work out of their garages.

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Washington Incubator Cofounder Angel Investor 48