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. startupcto

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. These days, the costs to start a business are at an all-time low, and over 90% of startups are self-funded (also called bootstrapping).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. These days, the costs to start a business are at an all-time low, and over 80% of startups are self-funded (also called bootstrapping).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. These days, the costs to start a business are at an all-time low, and over 80% of startups are self-funded (also called bootstrapping).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

My Google Primer lesson has just gone live: “ Start Small and Grow on Your Own with Bootstrapping ”. Bootstrapping” is the strategy of growing your business through income – sales – or other personal or short-term financing (like credit cards) rather than going out and looking for investors or taking on significant debt.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. They’ve come light years from there, that’s for sure. Fast forward a couple years.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 13, 2012

According to the just-released Halo Report from the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute ( ARI ), founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation , "The median size of angel & angel group syndicate rounds was $700,000" last year, up from $500,000 in 2010. So what do angels want?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Luckily, there are some new entrants and approaches to seed-stage funding -- if you know whom to ask -- that can supplement the friends, family and bootstrapping approaches traditionally recommended. million and is normally syndicated from one to three institutional seed investors or larger VC funds. Business accelerator funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. These days, the costs to start a business are at an all-time low, and over 90% of startups are self-funded (also called bootstrapping).

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Bootstrapping 101. A couple of items buried in the 1300 page bill include changing the definition of an accredited investor and moving regulatory roles on private3 placements from federal to stage level. ► July. (1).

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Some started with funding and some were bootstrap. The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place. Does this prove the “garage startup&# is a valid way to get off the ground? That’s exactly the point.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. Bootstrapping 101. My facebook can beat up your facebook. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1). ► May. (1).

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

If the investors ideal size is smaller than your need, you ought to ask about syndication. If they don’t like to syndicate, or don’t have a track record of doing it, you will want to consider your options. If the investors ideal size is smaller than your need, you ought to ask about syndication. Bootstrapping. Categories.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

This can happen either because the founder can bootstrap the company with her own resources to get further, or because the company and team is so compelling that a large fund can lead a series A out of the gates. But if filling out a round becomes easier, then part of the value of having a strong lead to establish credibility goes away.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. Bootstrapping 101. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

There are several efforts being made to make this process better and will mention a couple below: Angel Capital Association Collaboration Committee - I was a charter member of the this group and the goal is to facilitate syndication among the angel groups via education and tools such as Angelsoft. Bootstrapping 101. ► July. (1).

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2019

a production company that produced Phat TV for Canadian broadcaster CFMT Television, as well as a year-end television special, “Phat TV 97”, that was syndicated nationally in the U.S. It’s very challenging to run a business and make money especially if you’re bootstrapping to start. He then went on to form EME Inc.,

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