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Today’s opportunities in enterprise SaaS

Version One Ventures

As with any AI company, the biggest challenge is how to bootstrap the initial data so that the AI / ML model can actually work. Vertical SaaS. We have been long-term investors in vertical SaaS companies like Jobber (home services), Clio (legal) and Zenput (C-stores and restaurants).

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses. This broad-based approach ultimately reduces the risk of successfully bootstrapping a startup business, especially when only targeting verticals. A digital agency also performs project work for third-party clients simultaneously with incubating new startups.

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Why do marketplaces make great businesses?

Austin Startup

It’s looking equally good for the bootstrapped and indie-funded marketplaces too. Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). One of the highest we saw in 2020 was Ke.com , a Chinese platform for buying and selling properties. They raised a whopping $2.4 But they didn’t all start off that way.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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30 tips for avoiding startup failure, from successful founders

The Next Web

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Bootstrapping can be fun, you get to iterate quickly, turn on dimes, invent new features on the fly. It was a big challenge getting coverage on all these areas while bootstrapping the company on the side of your “day job.” Find your niche.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 One of the steps we took was to establish MAXIM BPO, a Business Process Outsourcing company in Manila, Philippines, to perform back-office functions for our various verticals including inbound/outbound call center, accounting and bookkeeping, and IT Support.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #3: The five critical ingredients to build a big company

Austin Startup

one that got us into a new vertical or geography or product line. 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. But, on average, our initial clients signed on at a projected gross margin of 70%.