Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. These days, the costs to start a business are at an all-time low, and over 80% of startups are self-funded (also called bootstrapping).

Equity 266

Equity Startup Small Business Administration SBA 266

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. These days, the costs to start a business are at an all-time low, and over 80% of startups are self-funded (also called bootstrapping).

Equity 436

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 436

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. These days, the costs to start a business are at an all-time low, and over 80% of startups are self-funded (also called bootstrapping).

Entrepreneur 240

Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as social enterprises, ranging from education to rural development businesses. Also, the business model for the business is unclear.

India 116

India Green Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. However, 1M/1M is a development economics project. The crux of the discussion revolved around segmentation and business models.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. These days, the costs to start a business are at an all-time low, and over 90% of startups are self-funded (also called bootstrapping).

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Small Business Administration 283

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. million and is normally syndicated from one to three institutional seed investors or larger VC funds.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Finance Early Stage Startup 120