David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. of founders can’t or don’t want to build a business that way. of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

Can you bootstrap your way to positive cash flow?   If the answer is relatively soon, then bootstrapping is a very serious consideration.    Even if it isn’t soon, early bootstrapping can reduce risk and increase chances for success, resulting in more aligned interests for entrepreneurs and investors.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. Kristen is doing about $70,000 year-to-date, and expects to hit $200,000 for the 2010 fiscal year based on her holiday sales projections.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 19, 2012

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

Milwaukee 79

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 20, 2009

Bootstrap your venture. At last week's Business Plan Competition at Marquette University , the keynote speaker, Greg Gianforte, CEO of Right Now , talked passionately about the keys to bootstrapping businesses.  It seems to me that bootstrapping is an overlooked technique, and it should not be. 

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 14, 2010

But, they still want high growth and they will be VERY active in the management of the business. And bootstrap every chance you get! They bootstrapped and focused on getting cash flowing as soon as possible. So in the end my advice to our alum was simple. How did they do it? It is due out in early 2011.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2008

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Due Diligence Wisconsin Angel Groups 60

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Sunday, August 15, 2010. Im trying to create a technology enabled recruiting service for an unproven business model. Even though the business is making money now, its still a big risk for anyone involved. Reply Delete Peter Aug 15, 2010 04:53 PM Absolutely correct. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Captain Recruiter.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? Investors love entrepreneurs who understand their business model, and can describe it accurately. In my mind, a "business model" reveals the structure of the profit engine that underlies the venture. Is Business Model Analysis Important To You?

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

Software Review 60

Software Review Wisconsin Technical Review Angel Investor 60

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Bring your questions.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010. Has DEMO lost its luster and relevance in 2010? October 4, 2010 11:55 AM. ▼ 2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ProfessorVC.

Technical Review 38

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

Founded in 2010, MentorMob essentially curates and aggregates content such as YouTube videos, Wikipedia and About.com articles into intuitive, how-to courses or what they call “learning playlists” This makes it easy to find and learn a new skill, hobby or technique, say, salsa dancing, golf or a new language.

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Tim Keane

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

Wisconsin 68

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 18, 2010 Four myths about the Lean Startup Myth: Lean means cheap. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Lean 167

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Tim Keane

JULY 2, 2010

The Qualities of a Leader » July 02, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money.

Wisconsin 74

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Market Math » September 30, 2010. I'm in Dublin this week and was at the Halo Business Angel Network meeting on Monday evening. Are focused on business success and are proactive in defining their own role going forward to maximize their contribution to the venture. business model to reduce hypotheses to facts.

Ireland 60

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. « Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 11, 2013

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

Wisconsin 89

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

There are so many unknowns at this stage and the only known is that the business model is going to change at least once, or in the current most overused term in the Silicon Valley, there will be a "pivot". ► 2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101. The written style is very prompt and the highly practical manners.

Technical Review 31

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Can it scale?”

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Tim Keane

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

« Paying attention to the business model: Whos in charge here? October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

Wisconsin 60

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

Thursday, April 1, 2010. April 21, 2010 9:26 PM. ▼ 2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Well, not exactly.I

Term Sheet 32

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Tim Keane

MAY 16, 2010

Last Time I Checked, Greed Was Not A Virtue » May 16, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

► 2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Way. ► February. (1). A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► July. (1).

Technical Review 38

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This got me thinking about the business model that Mike Keiser has built at the resort and a lecture began to form in my head. Several years later, Bandon Trails opened in 1995 and the fourth course (Old Macdonald) is scheduled to open by summer 2010. Labels: Bandon Dunes , business models , golf. ► 2010. (7).

Oregon 28

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Tim Keane

MAY 20, 2010

People are the whole game » May 20, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money.

Wisconsin 60

Wisconsin Angel Investor Bootstrapping Term Sheet 60

Tim Keane

JANUARY 5, 2010

Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations » January 05, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

Milwaukee 60

Milwaukee Wisconsin Angel Investor Bootstrapping 60

Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. March 2011. Categories. Angels and Advisors.

Pennsylvania 68

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

.   I talked to a company recently that had market risk in the educational business but also had a distribution agreement with a big player.  My advice was to execute with the big player by bootstrapping and then, as the market risk retires, to think about deploying outside capital.  October 2010. March 2011.

Technology 74

Technology Marketing Intellectual Property Montana 74

Tim Keane

MARCH 8, 2010

A philosophy of valuations and term-sheets » March 08, 2010. October 2010. September 2010. Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

Accredited Investor 60

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

We will also look at a variety of financing methods including venture capital, angel investing, licensing, franchising, roll-up, venture debt and my old favorite, bootstrapping. ► 2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101. Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Way. ► February. (1). ► January. (1). ► October. (2).

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San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Venture Capital 28

The Entrepreneurial Mind

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Forbes has just released a survey of small business owners that offers some interesting insights. Small Business Outlook 2010" is a study issued by Forbes Insights , in association with CIT (the full study is available free on-line, but you do need to register to see it). Regarding more available debt?

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