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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 Thanks to Lisa Tadewaldt, Urban Forest Pro ! #11-

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

You need to be willing to bootstrap for about 5-10 years. In contrast to building a product company, where most people bootstrap for maybe 2-3 years and then either raise some money or build off of profits or throw in the towel, when you sign up to do your own VC, you are committed for 10 years (the standard life of a fund).

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

You need to be willing to bootstrap for about 5-10 years. In contrast to building a product company, where most people bootstrap for maybe 2-3 years and then either raise some money or build off of profits or throw in the towel, when you sign up to do your own VC, you are committed for 10 years (the standard life of a fund).

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. Recent growth in digital social networks has served as a reminder on what differentiates our species.

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