The new math for tech startups
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If your company needs to raise new funding within the next two years, conserving cash should trump growth.
The party's ending: Silicon Valley braces for a new era of financial and political upheaval
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After a pandemic-fueled boom sent tech names soaring, many of those businesses have seen the worst six months of their lives as publicly traded companies.
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Bootstrapped companies are often thought to be less likely to succeed than their venture-backed counterparts. Mailchimp proved otherwise.
Spending Benchmarks for Private B2B SaaS Companies - SaaS Capital
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How much do SaaS companies spend on customer support or marketing? In day-to-day SaaS company operations, questions like the above are common. So, we asked survey takers what percentage of revenue is ...
Should You Take VC Money Or Bootstrap? Some Thoughts After Mailchimp's Blockbuster Acquisition
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Jonathan Cogley, founder and CEO of LogicBoost, offers a few questions and key indicators to help founders determine the necessary velocity of their business and which business strategy is most likely...
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India’s most valued bootstrapped companies in 2021 — World’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine maker rules the roost
Hipages snaps up Kiwi online tradie marketplace Builderscrack in $11.8 million deal
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Builderscrack's parent company MyQuote Limited is being acquired with 80% funded through existing cash reserves and a 20% equity component.
How Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes became an accidental billionaire
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He may have co-founded one of Australia’s biggest software companies, but he’s also just an average dad who’s trying to save the world...
Everything You Need to Know to Start and Grow Your Business
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Successfully start, grow, innovate, and lead your business today: Ideas, resources, advice, support, tools, strategies, real stories, and real business examples. Visit inc.com. Subscribe to In...
Commentary: You don't need as much money as VCs want you to think
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Big Ass Fans founder Carey Smith says VC millions couldn't teach him what he learned by bootstrapping his company.
Venture capital is a hell of a drug – TechCrunch
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Cheap and accessible capital has advantages: More founders get to pursue big dreams and previously “unfundable companies” not only raise huge amounts of money, but some achieve unicorn status. Dis...
Everything You Need to Know to Start and Grow Your Business
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Successfully start, grow, innovate, and lead your business today: Ideas, resources, advice, support, tools, strategies, real stories, and real business examples. Visit inc.com. Subscribe to In...
How to bootstrap and scale your SaaS startup the RIGHT way
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Choose funding routes based on the nature of your business and the product you are dealing with — and then take your time to do it well.
Council Post: Bootstrapping Versus Venture Capital: Finding What Is Right For Your Business
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Founders need to think through the amount of ownership and independence they desire and weigh it against the financial resources they’ll require to fund their company’s growth across a wide range ...
Alex Fisher On Soilless Crop Production, Tenacity And Bootstrapping His Business
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The potential is exciting. “Hydroponic science can push the crop to kind of an optimal performance. Do we want an intensely sweet strawberry? Do we want a long shelf-life lettuce? These kinds of que...
Octave Klaba wants to build European cloud-computing champion - California News Times
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Octave Klaba, the founder of OVHcloud, arrived in a court in Paris earlier this year to bid on a promising tech starter that went bankrupt, but rival bidder Xavier Niel, France’s most famous tech bi...
10 bootstrapping success stories written in Europe | EU-Startups
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In the early stages of startups, the majority are loss-making companies with ambitions to grow as fast as possible. The most popular route for getting
Backblaze’s IPO shows it’s possible to go public sans mountains of VC cash – TechCrunch
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Did anyone else mostly forget that you can build IPO-ready software companies without utter truckloads of external cash? Here's a reminder.
Three critical lessons about building your own Bootstrapped company
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Here are a few things I’ve learned and I hope might help others starting out on their own.
🤺 Fundraising vs bootstrapping: the battle of the century
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Aaaaah, the joy of building a company. But who pays for all of this? ‘But Leticia, if fundraising is such a painful process, why do founders decide to go down this path instead of bootstrapping?’....
Bootstrappers.com - The publication for bootstrapped startups.
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Boostrappers is a publication who cover bootstrapped startups from all industries. We cover 1000s of startups which have created really profitable businesses and are not backed by VCs.
Commentary: 'Fauxquisitions' are misleading the startup community
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Vague messaging around startups being acquired or shutting down hurts everyone involved.
Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Campaign Monitor
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“Profitable and proud” is a new series here at Signal vs. Noise. We’ll highlight tech companies (and others) that have $1M+ in revenues, didn’t take VC, and are profitable. First up: Campaign ...
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It started as conversations between two friends about how to improve the insurance and financial services industries for consumers. That idea turned into a company when Michael Rowell and Michael...
Invisible unicorns: 35 big companies that started with little or no money – TechCrunch
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There’s a widespread belief among founders that venture capital is a precursor to success. VC is a common denominator of the most successful tech startups, but it isn't a prerequisite. To help illus...
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Nnamdi Orakwue came to Austin to work side by side with Michael Dell. Now he's got a thriving business of his own, where revenue grew 500% in the past year.
The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed
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Bill Gross has founded a lot of start-ups, and incubated many others -- and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other...
Bootstrappers.com - The publication for bootstrapped startups.
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Boostrappers is a publication who cover bootstrapped startups from all industries. We cover 1000s of startups which have created really profitable businesses and are not backed by VCs.
The Inspiring Story Of Zoho: A Bootstrapped Million Dollar Giant - Blog
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Learn about Zoho's journey in our next story of bootstrapped heroes series, where we celebrate businesses who made it big without VC funds.