Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. Don’t expect investors to line up for your new online gaming site, adult entertainment or quick sources of cash. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. If you want U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2016

If you read startup news, then you might believe “getting funded” is the ultimate goal of any business. Once the most heavily funded startup in New York City, according to then-CEO Jason Goldberg, Fab blew through $200 million of its $336 million in VC cash without settling on a business model. Go it alone.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

Despite being a bootstrapped company with little revenue, we over-invested in a central New York City office at a rate of 15% rent to revenue. Though it may sound trivial at first, it’s important to set aside a good portion of your budget to establish a comfortable place to be and show your staff that you care about them.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 22, 2019

Bootstrapping your startup often means you scrape together your cash, and often tapping your home equity value. For any Residential real estate appraisal , any given house is not as simple as might seem to be at a glance, particularly in diverse markets such as New York City.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2018

My own journey started in 1989 when I was a new mom and partially working actress in New York City. In my case I used reusable bags when I shopped in New York City and beyond, and I watched and listened to the people in line behind me. This is when, as Seth Godin says you decide to “pick yourself.”

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

—– Versatile Venture Capital is a new venture capital fund specializing in companies targeting early profitability, based in New York City. —– Earnest Capital invests in bootstrapped companies to help them unlock more growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Expanding neighborhood-by-neighborhood or city-by-city is not a simple cookie-cutter process. Hyperlocal in New York City is different from hyperlocal in Kansas. Several of the challenges already identified suggest a greater reliance may be required on bootstrapping and organic growth.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Interesting perspective on why New York City could never compete in tech – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. Lessons from working for startups – [link]. Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Bootstrap it or moonlight. Using some of your savings to fund your new business is the easiest way to get your business off the ground, but if you don’t have any money put away, that’s no help. Hunter lives in New York City with his wife and two sons – Walker and Otis.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 8, 2014

You may not know this but when we first started, we bootstrapped the business by touring around the Southeast hosting kids coding camps. As our name implies, our main focus right now is helping to put the Southeast on the map as the next booming tech hub rivaling the Silicon Valleys and New York Cities of the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

None are in Silicon Valley, one is in New York City, they’re spread out across the world (France, Estonia, St. Fundraising: Fog Creek was bootstrapped. If you check out the StackOverflow users page, it shows the top 36 users. How do you get to the top of the rankings? You have to answer a lot of questions.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2019

Mascoll moved to New York City where he worked in advertising before accepting a role at MTV Network. It’s very challenging to run a business and make money especially if you’re bootstrapping to start. He then went on to form EME Inc., What do you like most about being your own boss?

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We Bigfoot Capital.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

We bootstrapped it. ” I called this trade show company that was putting on this great marketing event in New York City. I borrowed my brother’s trade show booth and flew to New York. We now had 250 New York customers there; the room was full. There were no investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The "meetup" culture of NYC, where there are three great educational events to go to every night is how the community bootstrapped itself. The entrepreneurs in New York City didn't learn how to run companies from their long histories at Amazon or Google--they learned from each other.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

We bootstrapped it. ” I called this trade show company that was putting on this great marketing event in New York City. I borrowed my brother’s trade show booth and flew to New York. We now had 250 New York customers there; the room was full. There were no investors.

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2015

As a New-York-City-based startup founder, I’ve been asked these questions many times. For this reason, I’ve arbitrarily picked our budget to be one month of New York City rent: $3,836. In New York City, you can purchase an unlimited metro card for $112, which gives you unlimited rides around town.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Even once it had access to capital, Cornerstone kept its bootstrap mindset. He had actually started to build Cornerstone out of a studio apartment in New York City, but decided on a rainy day to move the company LA. Without VC funding, Cornerstone also became much more reliant on its clients.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

Tom from Omaha, Nebraska, shared an update about what is going on in that part of the world, as did other audience members from New York City, Israel, and Columbus, Ohio. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

But travel, particularly for early-stage and bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are physically far away, can be hard to swing. There’s no group size requirement per se, but we’ll look for a bigger group from say, New York City, than from a region with a smaller existing Lean Startup community.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

This will achieve both customer intimacy and bootstrap funding from customers. Then Alisha Outridge from New York City, discussed TapTank , which she pitched as a B-to-C social media app for setting, tracking and achieving personal goals (health, career, financial, family, etc.).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank Sculli : There’s a little of that when you’re young and you don’t want to reveal that you’re may be incompetent in certain ways … I think that (now) there is a much stronger supporting ecosystem in New York City and that’s been incredibly helpful.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I currently just started a tech blog to cover under the radar, bootstrapped startups and this is great advice for the startups I cover and my readers. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup. Big Picture Overview of All the Components of a Web Service [To Come] More to Come… Cliff Dailey This is a great post. Thanks again.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

We'll bring together Social Media Editors from some of the largest and most well-respected media outlets, as well as those in more traditional Editorial roles to discuss this new specialty role. Bootstrapping a community from zero users. An overview of interactive design patterns for online social interaction. Launch of a social site.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly cites a number of these successfully bootstrapped businesses in his piece, including Mailchimp, Atlassian, Shutterstock, Basecamp, and RXBAR. In New York City, ride-hailing went from being negligible in 2014 to over 15 million rides per month by the end of 2017. That is a laudable and time-honored achievement.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2010

I'm talking about innovation in New York City and a very basic thought exercise. There are at least three groups that I know of in the YC/Techstars vein that are eying New York City. However, that's where I am at this stage in my career. Run an accelerator/incubator? Could they be effective agents of change?

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