ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I pointed Zubair to a couple of case studies of bootstrapping using services to get more of his core product built; in parallel, I will help him pursue institutional funding. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea. Photo by thesaint.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. A lot of money can be made with this product, and Rajan needs to build it without any outside capital - that is, with customer money - that is, with revenue - for a long while yet. If you have to raise money, try to do so as convertible notes. Value Of Insight Consulting, Inc.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

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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. 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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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. It is however, still a concept, not yet a business, and Adrian should not be under the misconception that VCs would be lining up outside his door to fund the business.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. Next Laval Bhatt with Trinity Business Solutions discussed his fledgling consulting company in India offering business requirements analysis and a set of other services to IT consulting companies and a variety of other segments. Photo by wax115.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company. million in revenue. SOCO Games. The business is already profitable with $2.9

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. Gnosis India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. Photo by wax115.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unlike societies like India where the extended family is deeply integrated into the fabric of society, and where domestic help is affordable and abundant, Western societies tend to consist of more nuclear families. The revenue in 2012 was $16.4 And if you have children, those children need to be raised.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. For anyone coming from India (like me) or China, this mean a protracted waiting period.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue. You can find details in the blog post on [link].

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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." What I liked about this company was its deep domain knowledge and niche nature.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. In addition, I took Rohit through a discussion on a possible OEM strategy that could result in a significant revenue ramp relatively quickly. I advised her to get one or two reference customers out of her current pilots, and then start charging the follow-on pilot customers.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 1, 2011

The team is led by Girish Mathrubootham and Shanmugam Krishnasamy, who have their roots in Zoho, a SaaS company that has revolutionized the category by drastically undercutting the CRM price-point by leveraging India to build a $100M+ 100% bootstrapped business. Read: India's Big Opportunity In SaaS ]. Loyaltepays.com.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Also, the business is primarily on CD-ROMs right now, but the good news is that the CD-ROM product is selling and generating revenue. It could be a good business to bootstrap the social/mobile edutainment business with. The good news, again, is that this business is generating revenues.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Raghava Kashyapa then discussed Qualitas Technologies , a system integration company in India focused on the industrial automation market. Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs. Qualitas Technologies.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Photo by emsago.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

They should be built organically, bootstrapped, and get to sustainability. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits). It would go a long way in validating his assumptions and possibly also bring in customer revenues if the value proposition really resonates. Investors are optional in this equation. CricketWeekly.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. Orbiter expects to give its investors a 15 times return on investment based on their current pipeline and revenue forecast. Happy Grasshopper.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2012

In addition, ad networks taking large cuts of ad revenues put further pressure on the publishers. Vikrant is running a bootstrapped publishing company, and is a 1M/1M premium member. So, my advice to Misty is to focus on the business fundamentals of how to get to revenues and profits within a realistic time frame.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue. In 1M/1M, we have extensive expertise on bootstrapping e-commerce businesses, and will be happy to help her navigate the paths of customer acquisition, inventory, merchandising, and financing.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2018

A few years back, I was working as a business consultant for a venture located in a small city in India. Since the company was bootstrapped, they spent frugally, lived without any salary for months, and worked hard to make it a success. The company used a mix of offline and online methods to connect job seekers and recruiters.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

It was a way for us to stay creative and it also brought in some revenue. The capital earned in the agency was used to bootstrap the progression of the key business we wanted to launch. When you are bootstrapping cash flow is king. The Hustle. I always encourage entrepreneurs to get creative with sourcing finance.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Your business model must show the potential to increase the revenue with minimal expenditure in the coming months or years. For example, Bluestone , an online jewelry startup from India, was trying to compete with the traditional brick and mortar jewelry business market. Bootstrapping or self-funding. Spend wisely on tech.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Sourcing may also involve several trips to China, India, Thailand, or other countries and cities that you may not otherwise consider traveling to for vacation. In addition to enabling additional software, sometimes hardware can also enable new revenue models.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. 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.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. link] SEO India Wonderful!! So, the guy is BS-ting you, people.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You’re asking someone to take a chance that with the code they deliver you can get funding or gain some revenue traction. You can add to it after you begin to generate revenue or find your investment partners, but if you can build it and launch it cheaply, you’ve kept the concept simple and got your project off the ground.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. Spencer needs to think through a strategy for bootstrapping that phase. The company has been generating revenues for the past three years and is profitable. could be your companion. for their monetization needs.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

For example, say, Barclays has a customer in the UK who also wants a bank account in India. Barclays may want to have a partnership with State Bank of India and offer the customer an easy, seamless process to open the second account. This will achieve both customer intimacy and bootstrap funding from customers.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina. 中文-简体 (China). New York.

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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. 1M/1M Program has a bold mission. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Yair Margolin: Promotion – banner ads placement (campaigns ,impressions, clicks ) , banner ad packages for companies to advertise on bizme2 community as well as affiliate revenue on bookings made through the site. The market analysis showed that they want to focus in the first year on 400 big conferences that represent most of the revenue.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property.

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