Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors. Every good entrepreneur needs to invest skin in the game, to show credibility and leadership to others. Investors want to be followers, not the leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2015

He concludes that there are five leadership elements that include him, but are not always about him, that lead to success. Share the mantle of leadership. You know how to bootstrap a business, build it from nothing, and burn sweat-equity for long hours to push your dreams to reality. Yes, you are a fascinating person.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2020

It takes time to build networks, know-how, and the leadership skills to chart a successful path and mobilize others around you. Use your ability to bootstrap and set a sustainable base. You also know when to say no, and don’t try to solve every problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. Your story should include childhood initiatives, industry organization leadership roles, and online influencer organizations that you support.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Leadership: Thinking About Dad – crowdspring.co/1i0PkgN. 50 Extensions and Plugins for Extending Bootstrap – crowdspring.co/1nj8dJm.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The ultimate guide to Bootstrap | Webdesigner Depot – crowdspring.co/YTL8qt. Here are some of the links that we’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I recently found the classic sales training book “ Bootstrap Selling The Sandler Way ,” by Bill Morrison, who has 20 years in sales leadership roles, and I was amazed at how many of his sales lessons are great lessons for new entrepreneurs as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Theirs is not the autocratic style of leadership, which tells people what to do and dominates them, but a style which treats partners, investors, and customers as family. This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors. Every good entrepreneur needs to invest skin in the game, to show credibility and leadership to others. Investors want to be followers, not the leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

I recently finished a new sales training book “ Bootstrap Selling The Sandler Way ,” by Bill Morrison, who has 20 years in sales leadership roles, and I was amazed at how many of his sales lessons are great lessons for new entrepreneurs as well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 15 Useful Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers | DJDESIGNERLAB – crowdspring.co/1iDkMPO. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 40 Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

In the real world, evidence indicate the vast majority of new ventures are self-funded, or bootstrapped. In all cases, people management and leadership are key. Most businesses require a team of people with diverse skills, all with a success mindset and commitment to common goals. Should this be a non-profit or for-profit business?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 16, 2012

It was around the age of 30 that I realized that even though I had the business talent, I lacked the leadership and people skills that turn a young entrepreneur into a successful leader. Bootstrapping the Company. Bootstrapping has been our most gut-wretching choice in building our business. Ken Sundheim , KAS Placement.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2013

Others entrepreneur infographic leadership startup' 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. Build an advisory board. Tell an investor they’ve lost all their money. Command a board room. Analyze a balance sheet.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 13 Resources to Design for Bootstrap | Vandelay Design Blog – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! 13 Free Flat Icon Sets – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Theirs is not the autocratic style of leadership, which tells people what to do and dominates them, but a style which treats partners, investors, and customers as family. This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Weigh the legal & business risks – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

 Mike Markulla came with the first investments - as a cofounder -- because investors felt the company needed leadership that could attract talent to be able to grow and he brought in Scott.   When an investor thinks about these issues, leadership is really the central inflection point. Bootstrapping. October 2010.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding. When presenting different formats in your content strategy document, try and include an example of what that format looks like, for example: Thought Leadership: Strategic in nature, thought leadership aims to challenge existing beliefs or present a new way of thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Theirs is not the autocratic style of leadership, which tells people what to do and dominates them, but a style which treats partners, investors, and customers as family. This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This is why I made the decision to bootstrap HighRadius. As a founder and CEO, the most important gift that bootstrapping gave me was the ability to slow down, speed up and pivot when and where we knew we needed to. For them, one success story can more than make up for three failures. Craft Your Company Culture.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Create a Great Startup Office Space on a Bootstrap Budget – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Buyer Beware: Generic Logo Design – [link].

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

I admire her visionary leadership, which shows us that leaders with a vision and purpose behind their mission achieve more success in a short life span. Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an image that resonates with me when I think about what makes a successful entrepreneur, and Carnegie definitely represents that image.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This dual-leadership approach would have avoided the frustration I felt in a startup a few years ago where beta customers loved our software solution as a free prototype, but we couldn’t sell one in the first few months for a price that seemed reasonable for all our work and innovation. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 16, 2012

It was around the age of 30 that I realized that even though I had the business talent, I lacked the leadership and people skills that turn a young entrepreneur into a successful leader. Bootstrapping the Company Bootstrapping has been our most gut-wretching choice in building our business. Ken Sundheim , KAS Placement 6.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Other than that we’ve adopted a “barbell strategy” where we may choose to avoid the high-priced, less-proven A & B rounds but we have raised 3 Growth Funds that then can lean in when there is more quantitative evidence of growth and market leadership and we can underwrite a $10–20 million round from a separate vehicle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Theirs is not the autocratic style of leadership, which tells people what to do and dominates them, but a style which treats partners, investors, and customers as family. This is really the realm of bootstrapped startups, and a small segment of the angel investor community that is looking for a “quick hit” with a quick return.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link]. Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing.

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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 it doesn’t require much capital to get started and make money then it might be a better idea to bootstrap it. Are you someone I want to help?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

This dual-leadership approach would have avoided the frustration I felt in a startup a few years ago where beta customers loved our software solution as a free prototype, but we couldn’t sell one in the first few months for a price that seemed reasonable for all our work and innovation. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along

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