ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Industry-specific domain experience becomes critical when identifying operational pain points ripe for transformation. Client work serves as an additional source of revenue to form new startups. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Bigfoot Capital.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Levi Cooperman , Co-founder and VP of Operations of Freshbooks. Levi Cooperman , Co-founder and VP of Operations of Freshbooks. Bootstrapping can be fun, you get to iterate quickly, turn on dimes, invent new features on the fly. Find your niche.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 Entering our 4th year of business, we doubled our headcount, became a certified B Corporation, and released our revenue model which aligned with our becoming a 1% for the Planet member. Thanks to Joe Sinkwitz, Intellifluence ! #3- 3- Publishing a book.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

By all accounts, the Utah-HQ’d company did everything the right way, was an overnight success 16 years in the making, and only raised venture capital as a growth company after years of bootstrapping. Qualtrics focuses on experience data, SAP focuses on operational data. Qualtrics could help SAP expand into CRM offerings.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The art of activating idle assets to bring in new revenue is occurring for both the service provider and the service creator. Especially when the brand normally operate in an invisible category like washing powder. In today’s world people know that access is greater than ownership. Then the car and factory pushed us all apart.

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