Bootstrapping Programming Revenue Vertical 
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 15, 2022
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. It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses. Over time, this revenue reduces the dependency on outside venture capital sources.
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. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Bigfoot Capital.
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ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 3, 2011
In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path.
Hearpreneur
DECEMBER 8, 2019
Early on in the year we started out by refreshing the look and feel our influencer dashboards, launching a competitive referral program. What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 years of existence, and with the launch of a series A investment in 2020 I can only imagine how far we’ll go.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Bootstrapping can be fun, you get to iterate quickly, turn on dimes, invent new features on the fly. What’s more it also required a large team of smart engineers that had experience in programming cross-platform software. Find your niche. Scale rapidly.
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?
ReadWriteStart
JANUARY 6, 2011
John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue. In 1M/1M, we have extensive expertise on bootstrapping e-commerce businesses, and will be happy to help her navigate the paths of customer acquisition, inventory, merchandising, and financing.
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