Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 14, 2019

Bootstrapping going by the author of the Ulysses, James Joyce implies forcing your way to the top from the lowest of ranks by the aid of your bootstraps. Bootstrapping is a common way to fund a prospect. These are family and friends that help with your startup bootstrapping. 4. Plan ahead. Private borrowing.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

This strategy, known as bootstrapping, is ideally suited to businesses which don’t need a large influx of capital early on in order to finance growth and which are already generating revenues. Bootstrapping has a number of advantages compared to other fundraising strategies. By self-financing, you can maintain control of your startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. This is the time for you to step out on your own, find office space, and open your business.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups [.] thanks for all this info.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

While you may be enamored with becoming an entrepreneur and bootstrapping your business, don’t quit your day job. You can reference industry benchmarks or make educated guesses on your own. There’s actually a lot of value in bootstrapping your business. Don’t quit your day job. You don’t even need your own financial data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. This is the time for you to step out on your own, find office space, and open your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. These terms refer to a class of professional investors who invest their own money, like angels, but have the larger resources and scope of venture capitalists with other people’s money. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort. Focus on collecting customer references. A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. Furthermore, he explains six common traits, referred to as “CAMPER” – Connection, Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose, Energy, and Recognition – which are crucial for building thriving and sustainable communities.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 19, 2012

.  If you're asking to be referred to someone, or introduced, you may want to try and understand the dynamics in a particular situation.    If I'm doing the referring it carries my implied endorsement of the person and venture being referred.  I'm attaching a deck. .   Search.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

It’s easier to bootstrap. Bootstrapping your business , which involves self-funding everything as you go along, without resorting to raising money from anywhere else, keeps you in complete control of your company. These include: 1.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

It’s looking equally good for the bootstrapped and indie-funded marketplaces too. References: * [link] ** [link] [link] Originally published on Marketplace Design Blog by Fiona MacDougall Why do marketplaces make great businesses? One of the highest we saw in 2020 was Ke.com , a Chinese platform for buying and selling properties.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2020

The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). These realities are part of the reason that this first tier of very early investors are often referred to as “friends, family, and fools.”

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

In the startup world, venture capital is often viewed as the penultimate goal, yet for many startups bootstrapping is often the reality. In order to build credit, your business will need at least one bank reference. And self-financing puts the emphasis on business credit. it’s fast, simple, and free. Open a business bank account.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. He seems to be worried about server costs and such and is trying to do high dollar value deals without reference customers. As a thumb rule, try to get enough validation so that you can get to at least a $2 million pre-money valuation before raising equity capital.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. We are a year-long, remote accelerator for early-stage SaaS companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

2:20] Why the Lewis Carroll reference? [2:59] 6:09] Do you refer to yourself as a marketplace almost or more of a membership organization? And why the Lewis Carroll reference? John Jantsch (06:09): I mean, do you think of yourself or refer to yourself as a marketplace almost or more of a membership organization?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Capitalism can be the greatest force for good (an intentional reference to conscious capitalism , a movement and organization that I love ). Read my Lucky7 Bootstrap or VC? Also, it is very important that you maintain a bootstrap mentality to the greatest extent possible after you take funding. post for more perspective on this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. This is the time for you to step out on your own, find office space, and open your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2013

. * As you''re refining your talk idea, bear in mind this IMPORTANT point: when we refer to "the Lean Startup," we mean specifically the set of ideas that Eric and others have articulated for testing, validating, and learning quickly. and we are NOT looking for talks about how to bootstrap or run a business on the cheap. *

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow?   If the answer is relatively soon, then bootstrapping is a very serious consideration.    Even if it isn’t soon, early bootstrapping can reduce risk and increase chances for success, resulting in more aligned interests for entrepreneurs and investors.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In early 2011, I wrote a post, Startups: Not for the faint of heart , that discussed Parse.ly’s survival through a one-year bootstrapping period after Dreamit Ventures Philly ’09. But it’s a cliche that refers to an underlying truth. If you’re only doing a startup, then if the startup fails, you fail.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Telesales simply don't work without reference customers. But once a set of reference customers are in place, this business definitely needs a telesales channel, not a direct, feet-on-the-street sales force.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs mistakenly often engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. Team building strategies – what is appropriate for a bootstrapped stage versus what is needed for funding.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

How to Make Better Reference Calls - crowdspring.co/1e9bls4. How to Make Better Reference Calls - crowdspring.co/1e9bls4. Showcase of Useful Bootstrap Tools For Web Developers - crowdspring.co/1kY1Qey. Don’t Allow Failure To Kill Your Business | LinkedIn - crowdspring.co/1lL9b4b. 1lNUUDJ - crowdspring.co/1lNUWLN.

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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

Sometimes this is referred to as figuring out your unique selling proposition, or USP. Typically, domestic cleaning business operations need very little upfront investment and as such, can bootstrap their business idea, or get started as a part-time operation. Let’s review them: Bootstrap your business with a side business.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2020

Peer-to-peer lending is also referred to as social lending which essentially allows individual people to borrow and lend money to and from one another. Bootstrapping. While all of the options listed above are still viable, you will likely find yourself doing some sort of bootstrapping to prepare your business financially.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. But when we talk about “lean,” we’re referring to the processes a company can use, when developing a new product or service, to learn quickly about the questions it has.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

So I’d still rather refer to “industries&# and “markets&#. Bootstrap for years! The verticallity of a particular market refers to its height in the tree. You can bootstrap without VC money. Vertical is a reference term (or a category) not an actual industry. Don’t let VC money slow you down.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 20, 2009

Bootstrap your venture. At last week's Business Plan Competition at Marquette University , the keynote speaker, Greg Gianforte, CEO of Right Now , talked passionately about the keys to bootstrapping businesses.    Greg is the well known author of Bootstrapping Your Business , and a frequent speaker on the topic. 

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

There’s a reason why I refer to early-stage VC funding as vulture capital, and to be honest it’s pretty accurate. This is why I made the decision to bootstrap HighRadius. As a founder and CEO, the most important gift that bootstrapping gave me was the ability to slow down, speed up and pivot when and where we knew we needed to.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, eLance has experienced similar problems, and I asked David to concentrate on communicating to his user base of service providers the value of building a reputation through references and reviews/customer feedback. Taking the transaction offline would mean the service provider would not get any feedback from the transaction.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

the disasters of the Bubble showed that generic business guys don't make such great CEOs (in reference to replacement of founders.)  Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Starting Startups : Comments. Bootstrapping. .  Groups don't all do this.    Yup.    Been there. 

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