Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. Most founders bootstrap product development. Business people know how to downplay the technology and market the value of the solution. Fabulous solutions require great technology.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

His company has introduced a new way of shipping packages to the market – through InPost. I learned from her that even if finances are an issue, it's worth taking risks if you know your idea would change the market. He perfectly mastered personal branding, for which I sincerely admire him. 6- Muhammad Yunus.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

by Evan Varsamis, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc. Myself and my co-founders were just a bunch of young upstarts with a big idea. The capital earned in the agency was used to bootstrap the progression of the key business we wanted to launch. I always encourage entrepreneurs to get creative with sourcing finance.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2014

It was a company whose product I believed in and whose founder I liked, but a firm lobbed in a term sheet at a price 33% higher than what I had offered using a very light agreement meant for a much earlier stage company. Then, I read about the idiotic comments made by a co-founder of Rap Genius. Perhaps we all should.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? According to Lighter Capital ,“ the RBI market has grown rapidly, contrasting sharply with a decrease in the number of early-stage angel and VC fundings ”. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Absolutely not.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Bigfoot Capital.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. As you’d suspect, I was similarly ignorant of such things while watching the sale of ITWatchDogs (where I was a co-founder), and still harbored misconceptions as I went into the sale of Smart Bear. To control a market.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

Small businesses and young entrepreneurs are in a difficult position in the market. If you and your co-founder(s) are friends, why not work on your home instead? If you haven’t been able to save up for your capital, consider bootstrapping your business. Create Marketing Partnerships with Other Startups.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

” For Lindsay Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Theme Dragon, Inc that opportunity was founding a tech company. She and original cofounder Megan Bradford poured their proverbial blood, sweat and tears into this enterprise. What about bootstrapping? Their latest product, Statdragon, launched just last week.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For the next entry in The Startup Magazine’s founder interview series , we are featuring Alejandro Russo, founder of Candela Mamajuana. He seized the opportunity to bring a unique offering to the beverage market. Did you bootstrap the whole business or bring in outside investors? Quality control?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. So when you’re thinking about marketing positioning to me, that side of it is the interesting side of it. Edwin: May I.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. What is bootstrapping? Why bootstrap?

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

Days before the conference started, I was asked (and felt honored) to lead two workshops on bootstrapping vs. raising money. Having started and sold 3 successful bootstrapped businesses, and am now running 1 venture capital backed business ( Coach ), this is a topic I know a thing or two about. The quality bar has never been higher.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. July 31, 2007 |.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

A description of your target market or the different market segments you’re targeting. If you don’t know how to define your target market, read Tim Berry’s article on how to do it, or read this article that explains what target marketing is and how to use it to your advantage. “If Solve a problem you can relate to.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We went on to do some market research and survey our peers to gain feedback on our ideas. What expanded our clientele was our dedication to our brand and creative marketing. One of our marketing strategies was to partner with an underwear company, and have models do deliveries in the underwear. Why don’t they have any security?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2011

Maybe not — after all the stated goal of WPEngine is to serve the “middle market&# — the folks who have outgrown free blogs, don’t like maintaining their own servers, but aren’t so large that they have extreme hosting demands. “Yes&# if it means one of the co-founders can quit her day-job.

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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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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position. Growth generated by market demand and sales can be very complex.   Growth financing, for example. Growth generated by market demand and sales can be very complex.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In such a crowded market, making good beer and opening the doors isn’t enough anymore. In this two-part guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4

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entrepreMusings

APRIL 20, 2014

Schoner was the founder of ThingMagic, LLC, a garage-grown RFID technology company led by a small group of MIT Media Lab graduates. According to Bernd Schoner, author of The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide: How to Bootstrap Your Startup, Lead Through Tough Times, and Cash In for Success.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? Here are 10 bootstrapped companies that did it on their own with no outside funding. Looking back on their previous experiences working at startup companies, the founders decided to bootstrap their business in lieu of seeking outside funding. Startup #1: Goldstar.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

What CEOs, management teams and shareholders care about is growth —revenue growth, greater user adoption, increased market share, bigger margins, etc. Our market cap is around $170B. There are co-working spaces in basically every city in the world—from Nepal to New York. billion times a day. in developing these new models.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Ive done a lot of placing people into positions, and I have never used a job board as a way to do that," says Rich Sloan , co-founder of StartupNation. Every type of business has their own meetings," says Martin Zwilling , founder and CEO of consulting group Startup Professionals. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The first time I met Matan, Melio's co-founder and CEO, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small business stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. Let’s talk about your financing strategy. You can change lives through the combination of technology and finance.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. Management.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 17, 2012

In return, all Davis and his cofounders had to do was promise to spend six months in the country working on their startup, CruiseWise - an online travel agency for booking cruises - and engage with Chilean businesspeople. If we'd had to bootstrap it, I don't know if we could have done it," Davis says. They raised $1.6

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

by Karla Friede, CEO, co-founder, and member of the Board of Directors at Nvoicepay. Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. Target those firms—if you can find them in your market. Target firms in your market. Show results.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. But since I’m relatively fresh off of the experience I get asked by first-time founders how they should go about raising money for their startup. Usually those aren’t first-time founders though.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. Any bozo can market a product with a million dollars.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2015

For a founder, the first few million dollars you raise are likely to be the messiest in the history of your company. But for most it’s a lumpy mixture of bootstrapping, friends and family, hackathon prizes, angels, incubators/accelerators and venture capital which combine over a period of months or years.

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