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Reaching Escape Velocity as a Bootstrapper

Software By Rob

This is an extremely important distinction because most of the growth advice online makes the assumption that everyone has venture capital. VC companies need hockey stick growth. Retention can be relational. Since a bootstrapped startup is dealing with much smaller numbers of customers then you have an advantage.

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The Coming Zombie Startup Apocalypse

This is going to be BIG.

Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas." Instead of paid acquisition fueling an up and to the right hockey stick, these companies would grow organically.

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Reaching Escape Velocity as a Bootstrapper

Software By Rob

This is an extremely important distinction because most of the growth advice online makes the assumption that everyone has venture capital. VC companies need hockey stick growth. Retention can be relational. Since a bootstrapped startup is dealing with much smaller numbers of customers then you have an advantage.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

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That’s going to help you put your financials together, and it’s also going to help because everybody loses customers, so in your model you have to be able to say what the retention rate is of that customer as well, and the churn rate. Pitching a Business entrepreneur funding pitching startup venture capital webinar'