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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

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Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. They are competing in a very crowded and fragmented market but I’d say that for $10k, they’re off to a good start.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

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An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. Technical progress and market traction are much slower and cost a lot more than anticipated. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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

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Might be kinda large market., The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. It’s a saturated market, with high costs and lack of innovation. Take that venture capital (say $6 mil?) … and give $200,000 to 30 fresh start ups instead. Translation?