Bootstrapping Revenue Silicon Valley Software Review 
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.
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 17, 2017
John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. But, credit is due to all these CEO’s for perseverance. I got the message. May you be disturbed.
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ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 7, 2010
At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Next Igor Protsenko presented Profitero , an enterprise software product for helping retailers with price comparison and optimization. Well, I don't.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. GrillGrate.
ReadWriteStart
MARCH 17, 2011
In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica.
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. She is also considering developing software to address these issues.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Rule 1: Bootstrap until you have a viable product. Currently, most ecommerce businesses have IT staff constantly running manual tests to confirm that their site is operating properly, or they manually create expensive software to run these tests. That is to say, they’d want to be able to control costs and revenues at a high level.
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