SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Here are a few perspectives on the topic of finding technical cofounders: In Building a sweat equity team , Joel on Software tells us: You simply need to network. Ask your friends to do the same.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Fund-it-yourself (bootstrapping) and do-it-yourself entrepreneurs are the best kind, because they can focus on the business, rather than fundraising, and have full control of their destiny.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. Or you can always bootstrap the idea yourself, get some traction, and build your first startup organically. The operations superstar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. Or you can always bootstrap the idea yourself, get some traction, and build your first startup organically. The operations superstar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Fund it yourself (bootstrapping) and do it yourself entrepreneurs are the best kind, because they can focus on the business, rather than fund raising, and have full control of their destiny.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

Bootstrapping is one option through which you can raise money for your venture. But if bootstrapping isn’t a choice, explore fundraising options. 4 Connect With Fellow Entrepreneurs Expanding your professional network can do more good than you think. This plan will guide your financial decisions and help you stay on track.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

We're going to start with our own network and grow it from there.". WhenBusy is a bootstrapped startup that lets people schedule meetings with you in currently-available time-slots without you having to share your calendar [disclosure: I'm an advisor]. "We're better than everyone else at SEO.". "A We're going to get reviews on blogs.".

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Today it would be near-impossible to bootstrap Smart Bear on those keywords. Because I have an unfair advantage in my network, because I’ve invested in blogging for three years. Because through speaking around the world and mentoring at Capital Factory I’ve earned an amazing network of advisors. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. These are exciting and fun experiences for everyone involved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Fund it yourself (bootstrapping) and do-it-yourself entrepreneurs are the best kind, because they can focus on the business, rather than fund raising, and have full control of their destiny.

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eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 254

Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Funding process.

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Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 187

Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Following is my prioritized larger list of sources, with some “rules of thumb” which may save you a lot of time and energy: Bootstrapping. Friends and family.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 246

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. Or you can always bootstrap the idea yourself, get some traction, and build your first startup organically. The operations superstar.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Startup 245

Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The stats behind what Bryan and the team had accomplished while bootstrapping the business were incredible, including signing up over 1,000 paying accounts and analyzing over 30,000 code repositories EVERY DAY. Their platform leverages data and algorithms to help developers make their code faster, secure, maintainable, and bug-free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping you growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Following is my prioritized larger list of sources, with some “rules of thumb” which may save you a lot of time and energy: Bootstrapping. Friends and family. Angel investors.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 149

VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

That’s ok perhaps for the bootstrapped stage, but will have to change before you can raise the pre-seed round. It doesn’t all have to be there on day one, but founders should be able to show that the can attract that top talent. Speed is also critical.

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Technical Review B2C Generative AI IPO 78

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Do it yourself. Hire experts, not help.

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Bootstrapping Startup Merger Salary 278

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

In other words, you have done wonders while “bootstrapping.” Social networking is so last year. Unless you’re a serial entrepreneur who has started and sold companies in the past. Show Capital Efficiency. Demonstrate that you have been able to get a great deal done with minimal to no money. Solve a Real World Problem.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

They often provide guidance and coaching, and may even assist with talent recruitment efforts, network on a startup’s behalf, or render other services to help it grow. Syndicates allow startups to easily access a large amount of capital and to network with other investors. SYNDICATES : Syndicates are single-purpose investment funds.

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Syndicate Syndication Software Review Angel Investor 127

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Bootstrapping. I always recommend that you start with bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is when you put your own money or borrow from friends and family to set up your business. Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? Sources of funding. ? Seed stage.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

Online guides and support network for founders: StartupToDo.com. In this installment we hear from startup expert Bob Walsh , whose many works for startup founders include: Blog: 47 Hats. Podcast: Startup Success. New book: Web Startup Success Guide. Classic book: Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. Zappos) matter far more.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Software Web 225

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. These are ones you need to bootstrap, crowdfund or pitch to friends and family. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The AWS APN Global Startup Program – for startup AWS Partner Network (APN) select and advanced technology partners looking to grow their products on AWS. Startups spend 10 weeks working closely with AWS experts, alongside an extended global network of investors and entrepreneurs.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Do it yourself. Hire experts, not help.

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Bootstrapping Merger Salary .Net 240

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Through them, entrepreneurs can hook up with R&D resources in universities and companies, and get access to a robust support network that provides opportunities for visibility, growth and financing. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders? Plyce : Feature-rich location-based social network.

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Once you get to a certain scale and it reaches a tipping point, if you have network effects, meaning there’s such a tight network that goes to a single place to do a single kind of transaction that popping up and doing it somewhere else becomes harder to do. I bootstrapped it on my own. Trying to learn this environment.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

Some large VCs in Silicon Valley or even superangels like Ron Conway only look at investment opportunities that were introduced by their network: colleagues from other funds, angel investors, industry experts, advisors etc. Just look at the GitHub story prior to the investment from Andreessen Horowitz.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 3, 2012

Bootstrap as much as you can. Bootstrapping is the process of running your business with no outside financing. While you clearly can't accomplish as much as if you had outside funds, bootstrapping forces you to get creative and to figure out how to do more with less funds. Keep your eyes and ears open and network.

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Bootstrapping Venture Capital Finance Business Plan 108

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Clubhouse was the trailblazer, but it sparked a huge interest in the category from established social networks, new startups and even the open source community. 31 employees according to Linkedin, but seems to be bootstrapped. Capuccino – an audio social network launched in July 2020 by French founders. Bootstrapped.

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Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. In terms of monetization, Vin expects the ad networks to supply ads to his site by selling ads to local restaurants. Or, bootstrap longer. That sounds great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

It’s more possible to bootstrap today than a few years ago, as the cost of entry continues to go down. The key to successful bootstrapping is to master the do-it-yourself approach, defer compensation or barter services whenever possible and become a frugal minimalist in all things requiring a cash outlay.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Without venture capital, without external loans, I bootstrapped my business and brought it to acquisition – in a field traditionally dominated by males ( 16% of male entrepreneurs are in the tech industry, compared to 4% of females ). This mission emphasizes the importance of community and mutual reliance.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

Take advantage of networking opportunities. Take advantage of any networking opportunities offered to you, as you never know which will be the chance you’ve been waiting for. Learn about social networking. Lots of people throughout history have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. Staying Busy Productively.

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Networking Social Media Community Hiring 267

Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2014

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Image via Flickr from Food For Thought album.

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