YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

Recognizing this challenge, we developed a short list of pre-launch steps designed to increase your probability of startup success. Having these estimates in hand will help you decide if you can bootstrap your business or if you will need to raise funding. How many customers are there? How much product will each customer buy?

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. The customer comments were entirely negative. We communicate to customers and competitors by how we price, and it is not simple to change. The customer comments were entirely negative. Bootstrapping.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Go there now » Sign up or log in to mint.com Updates Drop Your Debt to Win 2 comments How To The Top 5 Customer Complaint Letters — And What You Can Learn From Them 5 comments Investing In Graphics: What Is a Stock? If you are considering working at a startup, you should ask these questions. Live your life.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. At least 12 months of customer history, generally 20+ enterprise customers or 200+ SMB customers. Pied Piper Inc needs funding to accelerate customer acquisition for its SaaS solution. Up to $3M in growth capital for your tech startup”.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

After using Quora for a few months, I’ve found it a very helpful source of information on anything startup related: from technology, to strategy and even gossip, if that’s what you’re after. Tender – customer support. uservoice – customer feedback. link] – proactive customer chat.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

What these plans lack is information gained from dealing with actual customers. Entrepreneurs need to spend much less time at their computer imagining their new business and more time out engaging with real, live customers. A good bootstrapping startup strategy is to start small and start simple.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 11, 2013

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Bootstrapping. Funding startups. Startup ideas. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Resources for startups. October 2010.

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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.  My advice was to execute with the big player by bootstrapping and then, as the market risk retires, to think about deploying outside capital.  « Referrals: Worth Their Weight In Gold or Passing The Buck?

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. All of us like leaders of ventures who:  Have a passion for the customer, and a deep understanding of the customer's business.  Bootstrapping. Funding startups. Startup ideas.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Every type of business has their own meetings," says Martin Zwilling , founder and CEO of consulting group Startup Professionals. In the era of social networking, there are tons of sites dedicated to matching qualified applicants with the right employers, including Startupers , VentureLoop and Startuply. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Tim Keane

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.   For an example written by a VC, see A Startups Guide to Market Sizing from DocStoc. .    For an example written by a VC, see A Startups Guide to Market Sizing from DocStoc.   Why?) 

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.   The company prepared, as I recall, several million labels for their big customer (really their only customer) a major retailer based in the midwest. The Performance Appraisal » October 08, 2012.

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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. If you only sell to half of the customers in your physical market, how many non-buyers have you called on?  Any former customers from other places now working there? « The Qualities of a Leader | Main.

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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.   Posted at 04:19 PM in Funding startups | Permalink. Bootstrapping. Funding startups. Startup ideas. Resources for startups. Startups and angels: Along the way to success.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Thanks to John Jaramillo, Coach It Out, LLC ! #14- Having launched my bootstrap startup earlier this year my motivation to grow the business is to get beyond the initial MVP/ POC stage. 19- Continued customer support. The motivation for growing a business is always improving the customer experience.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 8, 2009

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. not friends and family) investment for my startup?   In my case, in the first company, it was early customer selling that provided the startup cash.  Are Investors Being Unreasonable?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Wise Mind Studios LLC. Scott Deutsch and Robin Deutsch with Wise Mind Studios LLC in Tacoma presented Life Skills Winner, a learning app to help autistic and developmentally challenged children learn certain skills. We discussed a numbers of customer acquisition methods to do so. You can read more about athenahealth here.

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Up and Running

MARCH 15, 2016

When starting a clothing company, you’ll likely be dealing with either bank loans, investment from friends, family, or your own savings, crowdfunding, and generally bootstrapping your business. Others took to starting a clothing company by bootstrapping, using income generated from a variety of sources. Your best bet?

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 14, 2009

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. " In some ways this is analogous to bootstrapping, where the first principle really is "go ask the potential customer if they like what you want to do."  Bootstrapping. Funding startups.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. " "What are your assumptions about how long it will take to get customers?" " "Where do you expect to find these customers?" Sales to segment A will be $500 per customer.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 24, 2008

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. You (the entrepreneur and founder of this "company") hire a call center to take calls from customers who want an inexpensive medical diagnosis. The call center then calls the customer and relays the diagnosis.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JANUARY 31, 2011

Rather than jump directly into writing a formal plan, first he talked with potential customers, some friends and other students to gauge the validity of the concept. He also assessed what he needed to get the startup launched. Jonathan would oversee the site and customers. Bootstrapping is a big part of their startup.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Can we quantify success in terms of calls, visits, customer sizes, and so forth? Can we produce a market map to track what our customers want, and from whom they are getting it? Bootstrapping. Startup ideas.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Are we planning for the lowest customer acquisition cost the industry has ever seen? Are we planning for the lowest customer acquisition cost the industry has ever seen? Bootstrapping. Funding startups.

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Tim Keane

JULY 16, 2008

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Here are nine simple thoughts about entrepreneurial ventures that apply to most startups. Here are nine simple thoughts about entrepreneurial ventures that apply to most startups. The Lessons of Experience.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. So often when people talk about businesses and startups, there is a great deal of high level talk about strategy, broad vision, and so forth. We used that information for a lot of our customers. Mies van der Rohe.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.   Telling a customer you are busy--when you aren't 2.    Being busy and prioritizing work based on customer criteria -- and raising prices 2.  Bootstrapping. Funding startups.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. In a lot of startups (especially good ones) the founder/CEO/leader is a customer-oriented sales person. In a lot of startups (especially good ones) the founder/CEO/leader is a customer-oriented sales person.

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Tim Keane

MAY 2, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. The company cannot get the pulse of the market into the product cycle and make the rapid, instinctive changes and improvements that come from customer contact if the customer contact is relegated to a “function” on the team.

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Tim Keane

JULY 20, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. The most important person in the business is the customer. Everything starts with solving a problem the customer has, and solving it in a way that is valuable - in other words, that the customer will pay for.

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Tim Keane

MAY 8, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. " Possible answers might be prototypes, market tests, potential customer testimonials, or some combination of these and other factors. Posted at 05:03 AM in Funding startups | Permalink. » May 08, 2006.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. The faster you can see repeatability from customers on the scale you estimated, the better. The faster you can see repeatability from customers on the scale you estimated, the better. Bootstrapping.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. They understand their customers and the market the customers live in. They get the idea of value creation, of delivering more for the customer than they promise. Sometimes the leader caves in to the customer.

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Tim Keane

MAY 9, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. The entrepreneur has the opportunity to master the intricacies of his business process; his customers minute but important expectations; venture financing; people management. Bootstrapping. Funding startups.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 22, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Let me propose that the best use of resources (time and money) in the startup process is to reduce risk. If customer interest can be obtained in a live test involving revenue, valuation may rise again. Bootstrapping.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Growth involves, in many businesses, more customer service, product development, support, marketing and so forth – in addition to more R&D. Posted at 05:08 AM in Funding startups | Permalink.

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