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. All Rights Reserved.

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.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

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. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build. Who knows.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore. . -

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62