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What every entrepreneur should know about financing right now

Version One Ventures

If not, revenue from your customers will be your best source of financing. That’s okay: many great companies have been built by bootstrapping. There’s a lot of “easy” early-stage money floating around right now, but don’t get fooled into taking seed money if you don’t have a viable path for later rounds.

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6 Ways To Make Your Startup More Attractive To Investors — Even With A Criminal History

YoungUpstarts

But he chose to move forward with a positive attitude, raise seed money for his company, and network his way to a profitable future. Bootstrap your business. The best way to impress independent investors is to prove your business is viable by “bootstrapping” — or self-funding — until you gain traction.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). If you’re bootstrapping, you don’t need to worry about either of these options. Without funding most tech startups will die.

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Q&A: How To Deal With The Trough of Sorrow? And tips for bootstrapping companies

Rob Go

We want to bootstrap as much as possible and believe we can because we should be profitable by summer (not a lot of profit, but some). Our desire to bootstrap may be a good thing because we don’t believe our industry is one where we could have a huge exit and potentially attract investors before we get there.

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Busted or Confirmed? 3 Common Myths About Starting A Business

crowdSPRING Blog

The researchers found that in return, this ability caused entrepreneurs to disrupt common patterns in daily life, attracted more customers and created more revenue, causing a cycle of nuanced disruption and adaptation. Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.