ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I pointed Zubair to a couple of case studies of bootstrapping using services to get more of his core product built; in parallel, I will help him pursue institutional funding. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Cion has 18 customers and is considering funding.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

If you’ve already soft launched, have a product available, are telling the world about your awesome company but don’t have revenue/user growth, you’re probably in the red zone. If you’re bootstrapping, you don’t need to worry about either of these options. Pre-launch funding is pretty common in Silicon Valley, but that’s a unique case.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

She was married to a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who ran a couple of major companies and had a brilliant career. In some cases, and this situation is particularly prevalent in places like Silicon Valley and Wall Street where wealth flows abundantly, women quit because there is no real pressure to earn money.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Rule 1: Bootstrap until you have a viable product. That is to say, they’d want to be able to control costs and revenues at a high level. Takeaway lesson: There’s a reason that private equity companies tend to concentrate their early-stage investments among Ivy League graduates in Silicon Valley, and that reason is reduced risk.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Why Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship - [link]. The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Just 25 Developers Grabbed 50% Of App Revenues On U.S. The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? PandoDaily - [link].

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. I recently wrote an article on this topic, calling all EDA entrepreneurs to build $5 million to $10 million to $20 million cash businesses that are self-financed, bootstrapped, and built organically. Read EDA Entrepreneurs: Build To Enjoy.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. It certainly will be a better way to bootstrap the company. million in revenue. SOCO Games. The business is already profitable with $2.9

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how bootstrapping makes you a better business – a leaner, smarter, more agile company that can roll with the punches. One in particular from a famous VC in Silicon Valley. Bootstrapping Minimizes the Number of People Cashing in on Your Success. Bootstrapped founders don’t have these concerns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

If your startup has a proven revenue model, real customers and is ready to scale, approach the best investors even if it costs you more money. Other well-positioned groups outside the ACA, such as Keiretsu Forum in Silicon Valley , charge up to $1,500. Even today, more than 90 percent of new businesses are bootstrapped.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia. Also, the business is primarily on CD-ROMs right now, but the good news is that the CD-ROM product is selling and generating revenue.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Entrepreneurs, which by definition are stubborn entities are therefore finding creative and cheap ways to bootstrap their startups. Share 17 Responses to “How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. Such OEM deals may cost him 50% of his product revenue, but would be the fastest way to reach a large number of customers, nonetheless.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. In addition, I took Rohit through a discussion on a possible OEM strategy that could result in a significant revenue ramp relatively quickly. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. If possible, of course.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue. You can find details in the blog post on [link].

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

If you look at the numbers of super angels in Silicon Valley, they are even scarier. They should be built organically, bootstrapped, and get to sustainability. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits). To give you some further context, we recently spoke with a VC in Boise, Idaho, who gets 500 deals a year.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." System-Sea. What I liked about this company was its deep domain knowledge and niche nature.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Even when you’re a small fish, it’s just easier to find your way around,” he said in an interview with The Next Web on the sidelines of Silicon Beach Fest. Even once it had access to capital, Cornerstone kept its bootstrap mindset. Miller detailed a series of crises that took place at Cornerstone roughly every $3 million in revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. Orbiter expects to give its investors a 15 times return on investment based on their current pipeline and revenue forecast. Happy Grasshopper.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 2, 2010

But – and you knew there was a ‘but’ coming – everyone in town wonders where the Superstar is: the tech company that starts in Austin, is funded by Austin, and whose successful exit brings the cache that will solidify Austin as the Silicon Valley of the 21st century. And make no mistake, that is in our grasp.).

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Bryce Dot VC

MARCH 13, 2015

If you want to build a business that generates $10 million a year in revenue and $2 million a year that goes to you and your partner, and that’s what you’re interested in, then you should figure out how to bootstrap. Bootstrapping v. A lot of agency businesses are that way. That is clearly false. It just depends. Unicorns v.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

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Venture Chronicles

MARCH 3, 2011

Even in spite of Arment’s efforts to generate revenue to boostrap the company, the fact remains that it is hardly a new and novel business model… he is operating a freemium business where the metering mechanism is rate limiting against features.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If the answer to the question centers around “We will achieve revenue soon so our net will improve and give us more runway,” it means the company is in trouble because no product ever ships on time nor achieves the company’s “conservative forecast.” These days revenue is the best source of capital. Who is on your board of directors?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: My question is related to all this talk that I hear in the Silicon Valley about Internet scale. Trying to figure out how the Silicon Valley… again, my last venture was not built here. I bootstrapped it on my own. Every VC I met in Silicon Valley was saying, “We don’t invest in content.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue. The artists had very few sales of albums, but gave a concert and commodity revenue. ProfessorVC.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

There’s a lot of questions about what do you actually need in terms of information, if you’re going to do your forecasting, and how does one put together a revenue forecast if you’ve never started a business or your business is brand new. She’s opening a small deli in an office park in the Silicon Valley.

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Rob Go

MAY 2, 2013

I was reminded last night why I moved to Boston from Silicon Valley many years ago and why I think the ecosystem is so great. It was fun to attend, and I was really pleased that a bunch of our portfolio company founders (and many other friends) were nominated for awards that night. Click here for the full list of nominees and winners.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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