Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

You also will find that the stage your startup is in dictates where you go to seek funding. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages. Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

You also will find that the stage your startup is in dictates where you go to seek funding. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages. Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages.

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Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors.

Private Equity 106

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I actually was a judge at the famous hackathon that prompted an on-stage apology from organizers. If a company’s goal is to be acquired by another company or take later-stage funding, the events can feel necessary… and many still have a long way to go. Women have no trouble thinking big and absolutely no problem working hard?—?but

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 14, 2010

They do play a role, but only a limited one with later stage businesses that have good cash flow. And bootstrap every chance you get! They bootstrapped and focused on getting cash flowing as soon as possible. She does not need much funding, but does need some start-up capital. How did they do it?

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I knew that many of the founders we back would be riding the bus from New York to see us in Boston one day, so it only made sense for me to do the same during our own bootstrap period. Capital is harder to come by, and later stage valuations are rationalizing.

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New York Boston Valuation Later Stage 61

Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

And we received offers of support from successful founders who have raised funding, bootstrapped, and those who’ve done both: +1 on that! On that note, there is another fund with a similar mission to TinySeed’s, but it’s later stage: Indie.vc. Would love to chat and see how/if we can help.

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Early Stage Valuation Seed Capital Revenue 46

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy, Managing Partner, Upekkha Value SaaS Accelerator, said, “We are the first fund which combines an Angel List rolling fund structure for making LP access widely available, while using the variable VC model of giving founders the option to buy back their equity at a later stage, ensuring founder optionality.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. They clearly have user interest, but these companies will have a limited window before later stage investors start demanding to see some proof that these companies can be sustainable over the long run at the kind of prices that were paid.

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Technology Valuation Community Restful 116

Hippoland

MAY 16, 2018

Just in general, given how cheap it is to start a company and how few pre-seed investors there are, I think it makes sense to bootstrap to some level of revenue traction before fundraising. 4) Seed rounds are dead These days, pre-seed, seed, and post-seed stages all honestly kind of blend together. RIP seed rounds.

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Seed Stage Valuation Convertible Security Equity 48

Hippoland

MAY 16, 2018

Just in general, given how cheap it is to start a company and how few pre-seed investors there are, I think it makes sense to bootstrap to some level of revenue traction before fundraising. 4) Seed rounds are dead These days, pre-seed, seed, and post-seed stages all honestly kind of blend together. RIP seed rounds.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Valuation Convertible Security Equity 48

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Email readers continue here.]. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. Before we explore the next insight, it might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors.

Private Equity 69

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 69

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

There are three types of venture investing (early stage, “growth&# stage and later stage. Early stage means the first real investors in a startup when the team could be as small as 5-10 people. So in the current collapse, the later stage investors will fare the best, or should I say least worst.

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Later Stage Early Stage Venture Capital Portfolio 34

Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. Small business owners never give themselves enough credit in this area.

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Finance Management Forecast Entrepreneur 37

www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

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. This is a very good excercise, and will make it much easier for me to explain the idea to potential investors at a later stage.

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! At the same time, it became clear that bootstrapping further was not an option our team could pursue.

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Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2012

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This is definitely the space for bootstrapping and personal networking. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group.

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Angel Groups Angel Investor Early Stage Startup 237

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2011

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This is definitely the space for bootstrapping and personal networking. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group.

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Early Stage Startup 217

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

That’s a pretty astounding figure, especially when you consider that many students in the latter years of that cohort have yet to raise or have yet to raise later-stage, larger rounds. I’ve also seen firsthand how capital doesn’t automatically equate to success.

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Gust

JULY 1, 2012

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This is definitely the space for bootstrapping and personal networking. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group.

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Angel Groups Angel Investor Early Stage Startup 143

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2010

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This is definitely the space for bootstrapping and personal networking. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group.

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Angel Groups Angel Investor Early Stage Later Stage 121

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. Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). link] Sunday links: « Colin J.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

For early-stage founders, I suggest AngelList and Crunchbase. For later-stage companies, I suggest the Association for Corporate Growth online community, Axial , and Preqin. You might need to bootstrap longer. Linkedin and Zoominfo are the most powerful broad-purpose tools. You’re NOT GOING TO.

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Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. In these more mature funds, the money remaining to be invested is more likely to go to later stage companies that are more likely to yield earlier returns, so the money comes back before the fund closes.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Hippoland

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

3) For my companies who don’t have founders with brand names on their resumes, my fear is that even if they have great businesses and can kinda bootstrap, they will be a bit undercapitalized. Even if it’s tough to raise money now, eventually, business metrics will trump all at the later stages; that’s what investors will care about then.

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