Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2011

Angel investors and venture capitalists don’t invest in non-profits. The simple reason is that it’s impossible to make money for investors when the goal of the company is to not make money. For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Individual and institutional donations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Angel investors and venture capitalists don’t invest in non-profits. The simple reason is that it’s impossible to make money for investors when the goal of the company is to not make money. For a non-profit, bootstrapping is self-funding from donations and fund-raising. Individual and institutional donations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2021

As an angel investor to startups, I’m still surprised to find entrepreneurs who expect investors to give them money, and assume no strings attached. Angel and venture capital money always comes with ownership and management implications, starting with the obvious ones outlined in the term sheet for the deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Word of mouth is not adequate for marketing and sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

The challenge is to convince investors that your business will attract real customers, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses. Even if you are funding the project yourself (bootstrapping), you should be asking yourself the same question before you have burned all your resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

As an angel investor to startups, I’m still surprised to find entrepreneurs who expect investors to give them money, and assume no strings attached. Angel and venture capital money always comes with ownership and management implications, starting with the obvious ones outlined in the term sheet for the deal.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. We called them founder space, round tables, and we'd meet, I'd introduce 'em to angel investors and marketing experts and lawyers, and really try to help them get off the ground. So I know what it's like.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an angel investor to startups, I’m still surprised to find entrepreneurs who expect investors to give them money, and assume no strings attached. Angel and venture capital money always comes with ownership and management implications, starting with the obvious ones outlined in the term sheet for the deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2014

As an Angel investor to startups, I’m still surprised to find entrepreneurs who expect investors to give them money, and then disappear into the sunset. Angel and venture capital money always comes with strings attached, starting with the obvious ones outlined in the term sheet for the deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Word of mouth is not adequate for marketing and sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

Others spend money on mailing lists and investor contacts and “cold calling” a few thousand people, hoping to find someone willing to take a risk on an unknown company. As an angel investor, I believe this approach is a waste of time, since no honest investor is likely to seriously consider a request for money from a stranger.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. With the exit, the entrepreneur and the original angel investors become fantastically rich and are lauded far and wide. Venture capitalists Have Very Different Objectives than Angel Investors.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. In other words, these are angels looking for billion dollar opportunities as well.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Health care ethics are the moral principles and values that allow you to make the right choice while promoting, distributing, and operating your product to healthcare organizations or patients directly. Bootstrapping or self-funding a healthcare startup is very difficult, as most healthcare starts require considerable investment.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Technology versus market risk in angel investments.  One of his points is that angels tend to lose money because they take on companies with high market risk and low technical risk.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

I’m in my seventh year now as a leader and an angel investment group where we just announced an investment last Thursday, and I’m very familiar with how this works for angel investors. Tell your angel investors a story about need. Depending on who the investors are, some want more, some want less.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 4, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Spend ten minutes talking to any investor in the community who sees a lot of deals and inevitably you find that the companies that've been around are largely the same. Angels and Advisors.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Being distributed/network ready (even though Ethernet was just barely coming into use in the enterprise). Larry was loathe to sell any of the company stock; he generally took a dim view of VCs and preferred to bootstrap. Angel investor Don Lucas had his office above ours. Back then he advocated for.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. And, of course, there are plenty of near real-time distribution statistics available if your capture system works. Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping. Investor Relationships.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee » December 30, 2009. Distribution challenges? Distribution challenges? Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping. Investor Relationships.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react. Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. In other words, these are angels looking for billion dollar opportunities as well.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. In other words, these are angels looking for billion dollar opportunities as well.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. " Distribution is everything. " Distribution is everything. Angels and Advisors. Bootstrapping. Investor Relationships. « Doing Lunch Rather Than Being Lunch | Main. I Wish Id Sold More. I Wish Id Sold More.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Learn how to raise capital from angel investors and venture capitalists (and how to decide who you should target). Social media marketing for startups : How to use social to launch, position your messaging and get distribution. Raising money for a startup from an angel investor : Learn pre-money and post-money valuations are.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. There are definitely some lessons in the story for entrepreneurs and angel investors, but before discussing, I thought Id share a bit about the early financing history for iControl.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. Funding Guide.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

It will also help you when it comes time to write your business plan, especially if you’re pitching an angel investor or a venture capital firm – they will want to see there’s a market for your idea, otherwise, it won’t scale as rapidly as they need it to in order to make a return on their investment. Do something at least.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. However, the distribution channel we had planned to use lacked the sophistication ultimately required by the product design, and the manufacturers adoption cycle was insufficient. Angels and Advisors.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Friends and family are the most common backers, and many startups bootstrap.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

.&# If your friends and family can’t capitalize your project, then you’ll have to extend your network to include business advisers, potential business partners, and angel investors. It’s basic bootstrapping; you’ll want to leverage a little bit of high-level technical expertise to minimize risk.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Chris is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who has been a mentor for years. in line with the Texas Startup Manifesto the team that he manages is distributed across the state with members in Austin, Dallas and Houston. We are a bootstrapped business so cash management is critical?—?you Vice President?—?Operations

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So these companies that are kind of for — in the sort of mechanical term, distributed workforces and outsource work being run online. It’s very rare that they actually successfully bootstrapped, because it’s just so hard to do if you can’t invest any money. The GitHub guys did an amazing job. So what they did was incredibly impressive.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies.

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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. free, distributed source code control management system. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Venture Hacks Angel List â?? raise money with angel investors. Get Satisfaction. Eventbrite.

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