Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1 With more startups, angels still limit their focus to about one out of 40 requests.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Twitter Bootstrap : Created by Mark Otto and Angus Droll , Bootstrap makes its learning curve worth the effort. What it lacks in stylesheet comments Bootstrap makes up in online documentation and sample files. What it lacks in stylesheet comments Bootstrap makes up in online documentation and sample files. and later).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When we led Eric’s first financing — a $10 million round and the first capital into the bootstrapped team — we believed mobile location and mapping would be big. Back in 1997, Softbank Technology Ventures (which became Mobius Venture Capital) was the first VC fund I helped raise.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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