2008 Bootstrapping Finance Technical Review 
Professor VC
JANUARY 27, 2011
How Much Diligence is Due.Or Ive addressed the due diligence question in previous posts, but this came up again in a debate we were having at a recent meeting of the Sand Hill Angels. And in order to increase our groups returns, one of our goals should be to get more people and man hours involved in the diligence process.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Sequoia has financed them.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 3, 2011
From what I have seen, this is one of the few companies that can cross the elusive billion dollar mark in due course. Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Statisco Economic Analytics.
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. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. JCLABoutique.com. Jeanne's positioning needs a lot of work.
Professor VC
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
Dan Frommer, in Moneyball for tech startups , interviewed Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham and Ben Horowitz on the topic. And given that four of the most important tech investors in the world seem skeptical of it, if someone can figure out a good formula that works, they may be able to exploit it". How Much Diligence is Due.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
31 
Let's personalize your content