Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

Based on the latest Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom, personal money, or bootstrapping, continued to be the primary startup funding in 2012. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2017

This is where lean manufacturing comes in. A lot of companies do this because of mounting pressure from governments , media, and the population to clean up their acts. So, if you outsource your manufacturing, you may have to stop if you want to go lean. Having to do this everyday can eat into profits, though.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2020

A grant is financial assistance awarded by the federal, state, or local government. If you’re pursuing a grant, government and SBA options are likely the most common but difficult routes to go. Bootstrapping. It encourages lean operations and can help you avoid taking out too much funding early on.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 23, 2013

Man, you’re the real deal… were moving around 1′s and 0′s, bootstrapping ideas cheaply and hoping something sticks. A classic story of our government not having a clue about where to allocate votes which will actually benefit our country, rather than buying votes. After this he said: “Am I a Startup?”

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2013

It also means you may have saved enough money to bootstrap a lean startup. The funds, hidden money belonging to government officials and wealthy families, could be as much as $32 trillion. It might sound strange, but there are some huge perks to being an older entrepreneur starting a business. He’s kind of big deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Exciting news: we’ve nailed down dates for The Lean Startup Conference 2013. We know Lean Startup methods are being applied by people around the globe, in startups and established organizations alike, and in sectors of every stripe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. A seed round these days is $3–5 million or more!

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic. What is a startup?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It endearingly represents the ingenuity and collaboration required to bootstrap a project. Based on the New York Times bestselling memoir, Wild (starring Reese Witherspoon) is a great story that demonstrates lean planning in action. With full musical numbers throughout, Begin Again has a really unique energy.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

and some tough times where we had to lean on each other, too. We are a bootstrapped business so cash management is critical?—?you You probably already have many of them because you have previous experience in active duty or as a civilian government employee?—?but We’ve been through incredible highs?—?like Vice President?—?Operations

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business.

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