The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

We receive about one business plan a day, and the Silicon Valley VCs at least 10 times more, so I am pretty sure we face a similar issue: too many business plans, too little time to respond. Venture capitalists and their feedback. Yes, it is true that some entrepreneurs either don’t receive a response or get a pre-made template.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, we also have seen several examples of entrepreneurs who have successfully bootstrapped their e-commerce companies without any external financing until much later in the game. Should those entrepreneurs who have built their business elsewhere move to Silicon Valley to raise money? Or, bootstrap longer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Investors are looking for large opportunities (greater than a billion dollars) with double-digit growth rates. Marginal legality or public image.

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Austin Startup

MAY 15, 2019

And we did it by bootstrapping our company. While it’s not possible for every company to bootstrap, I want to emphasize that just because a VC says no, that doesn’t mean you aren’t going to be successful. There is a disconnect between what you believe in and the process for bringing your dream to fruition. We are ramping up.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. I know Silicon Valley and the MBA types look down upon lifestyle businesses. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. If you have to raise money, try to do so as convertible notes. I encouraged Todd to keep building.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. We see Bizosys as a promising niche vendor with demonstrated capabilities in creative bootstrapping. RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I believe the famous Ron Conway made about 300 investments in his Silicon Valley angel fund in the late 90’s, and his one big win was?—?Google. He’s thus entitled to be known as the Godfather of Silicon Valley, having come rather a long way since I bought Altos computers from him around 1980. May you be disturbed.

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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.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Bootstrapping allows you to get started on your venture with whatever resources are at hand. 10:30AM Hilton?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2013

They both require the ability to bootstrap and exploit the most of what you have to offer – all at little to no cost. I am not going to claim that there is a magical shortcut for bootstrapping that applies to all startups, but here are the five bootstrapping basics that kept us alive. Remember, bootstrapping has no rules.

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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 23, 2010

In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. So we as investors, most investors, we call it in Silicon valley, but really what it is, it show us that people need this. So I know what it's like. You put it out there.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. However, 1M/1M is a development economics project. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 13, 2019

In 1996, Sridhar Vembu founded Zoho in Silicon Valley. Today, the bootstrapped startup is still in its teenage years even as it finds its stride with the increasing popularity of its suite of software apps aimed at running everything from a small business to a Fortune 500 company.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2014

A familiar refrain reverberating through the startup world, picking up volume as it swells to a more-or-less deafening roar in Silicon Valley. And whether you’re just beginning to bootstrap or hustling to get funded, your time is your most valuable asset. It’s “go, go, go” in startup land.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

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. But to get that Silicon Valley angel funding you have to be part of that social network; most of the rest of the world doesn’t have that frothy environment.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She has founded three companies, writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy , and runs the 1M/1M initiative. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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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. 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]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

I liked hearing the who’s who of Silicon Valley in his stories, but more importantly he had really good take aways. Eventbrite is very well known in the Silicon Valley and continues to grow. I expect to see many great things from this company. For Eventbrite, addressing longtail market was a leap of faith.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 8, 2014

You may not know this but when we first started, we bootstrapped the business by touring around the Southeast hosting kids coding camps. As our name implies, our main focus right now is helping to put the Southeast on the map as the next booming tech hub rivaling the Silicon Valleys and New York Cities of the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. Tracy isn’t your quintessential Silicon Valley startup story. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 3, 2017

Austin is also known for bootstrapping. But lately, a number of venture capital firms have launched big funds here and others from Silicon Valley, Houston and Boston have offices here or regularly […] The post Ten Takeaways from VentureCrushATX appeared first on SiliconHills.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 17, 2012

If we'd had to bootstrap it, I don't know if we could have done it," Davis says. In Silicon Valley, if you fail quickly and cheaply, people think that's awesome because you learned a lot.". And if you join Start-Up Chile, you're that much less likely to fail in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

You can bootstrap it. He learned, too, that building a company outside a major startup ecosystem like Silicon Valley doesn’t have to limit a founder’s horizons: A lot of people, especially in the Midwest, will spend their time thinking too small. I learned that you can actually do things very inexpensively.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

You can bootstrap it. He learned, too, that building a company outside a major startup ecosystem like Silicon Valley doesn’t have to limit a founder’s horizons: A lot of people, especially in the Midwest, will spend their time thinking too small. I learned that you can actually do things very inexpensively.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

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. According to the Angel Capital Association (ACA), only about a third of its member groups charge any fee, and in all cases less than $500.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We Bigfoot Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The topics at Startup School ranged from the history of Silicon Valley innovation and the history (and future) of startup funding, to testing your hypothesis, pivoting, and optimizing for happiness. Lecture topic : Luck, Bootstrapping, and Optimizing Your Happiness. Tom Preston-Werner: Founder, GitHub.

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