Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

If you can’t recruit all of these onto your direct team, the next best alternative is to build a first-class Advisory Board of outside people, with the requisite skills and a wealth of experience. Or you can always bootstrap the idea yourself, get some traction, and build your first startup organically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

If you can’t recruit all of these onto your direct team, the next best alternative is to build a first-class Advisory Board of outside people, with the requisite skills and a wealth of experience. Or you can always bootstrap the idea yourself, get some traction, and build your first startup organically.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

.” The competition did more than educate and put money in the bank for this otherwise bootstrapped startup. version, and talking to an advisory board and seed round investors already.” “Since winning the competition, things have almost exploded for us.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2013

Build an advisory board. Command a board room. Understand a term sheet. Recruit and Train. Train an intern. Hire A Players. Replace B Players. Cold call C level executives. Write a novel. Raise Money. Tell an investor they’ve lost all their money. Analyze a balance sheet. Make a budget. Ignore a budget.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Many startups have an advisory board of sympathetic people with industry expertise, or people who enjoy mentoring, or people who donate a few services on the come. Once you take investment, you will also have a fiduciary board, with the responsibility of making the company successful. All problems will go away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Investors will expect at least one seat on the board, and expect a board report from you each month on key items.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. I would love to be on your advisory board. And thats where the call for help comes in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2014

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Investors will expect at least one seat on the board, and expect a board report from you each month on key items.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 20: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Financing…Equity Investors, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Strategic Investors, Debt, Convertible Debt, Venture Debt, Bank Loans, Personal Debt, Bootstrapping, Customer Financing, Your Own Cash Flow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2015

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Investors will expect at least one seat on the board, and expect a board report from you each month on key items.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2018

We enjoy visionary leadership, dedicated engineers working on their life ambitions, exceptional operational leadership, the A list of advisory board members, highly skilled assembly technicians, and energetic marketing and product team members. What is your secret sauce? Our people! The Apptronik Team. If so, how?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2010

You've got to have capital or know how to bootstrap it. I strongly recommend it because going through that process is amazing, and if you are looking to build an advisory board, if you are looking for investment capital you, have to have a well-prepared business plan. That was one of the things that I had to learn early on.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 23, 2013

Man, you’re the real deal… were moving around 1′s and 0′s, bootstrapping ideas cheaply and hoping something sticks. Since our chance meeting, I have shared an espresso a few times with David – and he then asked me to join the Tomcar team as member of their advisory board.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 14, 2009

.  I am constantly impressed by the high quality of members of advisory boards on opportunities I get to see.  " In some ways this is analogous to bootstrapping, where the first principle really is "go ask the potential customer if they like what you want to do. .  Bootstrapping. October 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I’m a very risk adverse entrepreneur as a result of bootstrapping my first three businesses, almost failing on the fourth (Coremetrics) due to market timing (I was too early and didn’t predict the dot-com bust) and its overcapitalization, and being a mostly customer funded and very capital efficient on the fifth (Bazaarvoice).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

An advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. It’s also valuable to talk to potential investors for their views, even if you are bootstrapping the effort.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I’ve helped entrepreneurs find their own product-market fit and connected them to potential clients, investors, and Advisory Board members, I’ve spent a lot of time telling them about the “cool kids”. In The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10 , I cover the most proven way to hire well?—?it it isn’t easy. make that fourteen years now).

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When you’re on a bootstrap budget, anything is tough, but this turned out to be especially taxing. On a bootstrapped budget free is great. Given we had no expertise in-house at the start of the summer, we outsourced a fairly sizable project to a small team of student developers. It turned out to be a terrible decision.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 2, 2018

We’ve also built a large Advisory Board, from DJ Patil to Kelly Wright. They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps?—?except At data.world, we’ve done our best to do the same. I have some of the best VCs and individuals I’ve ever worked with involved, from Shasta Ventures to John Mackey. Their mission was worth fighting for.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Jeanne Sullivan , co-founder, StarVest Partners, strongly recommends creating an advisory board, especially in the early days. That advisory board would be able to say, ‘Don really knows what to do and how to do it: organized, smart, and more.’”. You might need to bootstrap longer. You’re NOT GOING TO.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc.

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