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How to Launch Your Own Startup Part 4 (money, culture and becoming a manager)

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Raise your first round of money, or bootstrap. You either do it on your own, taking all risks and responsibility yourself (“bootstrapping”), or you find investors that believe in your company. These skills are hard to develop, many founders actually decide to hire a CEO at a later stage.

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

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I would assume most businesses are going to claim they should get VC funding in order to help their PR, even if no one at the company actually believes it. The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. Pepperdine Business Press Room – Graziadio School PR [.]