Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Bootstrap if you can, for as long as you can As a startup you’ll likely fail. Not necessarily the entire business, but at some point, something will fail and you’ll either learn from it and grow or it will be the beginning of the end. At this point, we had already developed the first phase of the platform by bootstrapping.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Hello Alice is a free, data-driven, and multichannel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while increasing owner success rates. 12:50] So how does the process work for businesses who want to join Hello Alice? [13:37]

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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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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

I’m also interested in investing in people who have worked for me in the past or who I know through the Aspen Global Leadership Network and Henry Crown Fellowship. If your answers starts with, “We have multiple revenue streams…” that’s a bad thing. Is this a big enough market to support a venture funded business?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Yet many entrepreneurs rely on expensive outside services and outside money, rather than do the networking for a co-founder or two who have the right skills to work for equity. Bootstrapping not only reduces cash needs, but increases commitment. These would include the following: You have a proven business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Funding process.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

Different sources define freemium as a business model or a pricing strategy. It offers a freemium of their social network to everyone, has a premium plan as well as a free trial of this plan, plus it also monetizes on the ads. Solving the equation of value and revenue for your SaaS product is not easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2013

If the business plan reads like a smorgasbord of offerings, there are probably not enough resources to do any well, and customers will be confused. Rational business model, with prices and volumes. Unless the business is a non-profit, the entrepreneur needs to show how he will make money.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. My one feedback would be to have networking earlier in the agenda or sprinkled throughout the 6 hour agenda. Raise more money than you need because your business model may change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

If the business plan reads like a smorgasbord of offerings, there are probably not enough resources to do any well, and customers will be confused. Rational business model, with prices and volumes. Unless the business is a non-profit, the entrepreneur needs to show how he will make money.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. My one feedback would be to have networking earlier in the agenda or sprinkled throughout the 6 hour agenda. Raise more money than you need because your business model may change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Funding process.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Of course, everyone understands that somewhere in the equation theres revenue, whether directly or indirectly. Of course, everyone understands that somewhere in the equation theres revenue, whether directly or indirectly. Bootstrapping. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2011

If the business plan reads like a smorgasbord of offerings, there are probably not enough resources to do any well, and customers will be confused. Rational business model, with prices and volumes. Unless the business is a non-profit, the entrepreneur needs to show how he will make money.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. It’s a great business. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 Photo Credit: Matt Daigle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Funding process.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2010

If the business plan reads like a smorgasbord of offerings, there are probably not enough resources to do any well, and customers will be confused. Rational business model, with prices and volumes. Unless the business is a non-profit, the entrepreneur needs to show how he will make money.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. Once you understand all these points, you can start networking with them. An efficient growth strategy is a must for a startup.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

1) Your idea is undifferentiated Investors see thousands of businesses a year. And, your idea is 50th social networking site of the week. But outcome-differentiation is probably lacking – people who use Mailchimp use it to increase revenue by selling more products / services via their emails.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

1) Your idea is undifferentiated Investors see thousands of businesses a year. And, your idea is 50th social networking site of the week. But outcome-differentiation is probably lacking – people who use Mailchimp use it to increase revenue by selling more products / services via their emails.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Innovative products and business models are the foundations of a promising startup. Creating a scalable business model. Whether you are hoping to expand a small business with a loan or going for a round of venture capital, you will need a scalable business model. Determining how much money to ask for.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model.   Pre-bubble Siliicon Valley deals were popularly valued at multiples of revenue.

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Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 5, 2015

VC funding can great for some companies, but it comes with a certain set of expectations that have an impact on everything from business model to company culture. My partner Tim bootstrapped his business to 9 figures in revenue without taking any outside investment. And revenue better still. .

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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 this capital, the company propels itself to $50 million+ in revenues, and to either a sale to a strategic acquirer or to an initial public offering.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

This whole process got me thinking about the textbook business model. Similar to the textbook business, the music business BN (before Napster) was controlled by the labels. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue. Labels: business models , Grateful Dead , textbook.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. First develop a business model.  By this time (in six months) we will be getting 20 orders per day from these two callers and our revenue will stabilize at that rate. How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. First develop a business model.

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Tim Keane

JULY 16, 2007

I just talked to a business owner the other day who has grown her startup nicely - 15% a year or so - up to revenue of a bit over $2.5MM. Now, (in the service business,) the venture is at the point where she could accelerate its growth. in new revenue. On revenue of $2.5MM, thats a 24% increase just to pay the bank.).

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Tim Keane

JUNE 8, 2009

  An example of that is pre-revenue science start-ups with grant funding.  Posted at 09:23 AM in Bootstrapping | Permalink.   An example of that is pre-revenue science start-ups with grant funding.  Bootstrapping. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

The current business model for expert consultants is a brick and mortar industry with revenues of about 1/2 a Billion dollars per year. The site had a lot of bells and whistles and an open community model, and generated some interest in the online ideation world. GuruStorms has been completely bootstrapped thus far.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2012

At this point, RTMS had one customer paying them what amounted to all of their annual revenue - plus or minus $500,000 I think. At this point, RTMS had one customer paying them what amounted to all of their annual revenue - plus or minus $500,000 I think. Bootstrapping. October 2010. September 2010. Categories. Funding startups.

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