At a minimum bootstrap as long as you can before raising money from investors.
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But instead of rushing to get venture capital, Al and Jim wanted to bootstrap things.
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Startups looking to bootstrap their way to a living need every last dime to pour back into the business.
Chabot provided a few key nuggets of advice for entrepreneurs looking to bootstrap to success.
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If you can find a way to bootstrap the business to profitability, get creative and do it.
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Have you visited the bootstrap irc-server that the clients use to see if the number of clients have decreased?
The best entrepreneurs bootstrap and only much later take outside money.
Having lawyers hire accountants can bootstrap attorney-client privilege to accountant communications, which makes sense where tax litigation is imminent or might involve an IRS criminal matter.
These upstart, independent engine companies range from ventures backed by Silicon Valley venture-capital funds to a bootstrap shop run as a hobby by the owner of an aircraft-engine machining company.
Although it is important to bootstrap for as long as possible to maintain control of your product, it is critical to know when you are ready to finance its growth.
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Every day that you spend bootstrap executing towards getting your product or service built and people to pay money for it will prove to be a very good investment for you.
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Taking the leap into entrepreneurship involves multiple types of risks most often, we think about the financial risk, but increasingly entrepreneurs have learned how to bootstrap, or use crowdsourcing as a source of funds.
Bob Dole, he told reporters that he wanted to meet with Farrakhan and praised his organization's focus on economic empowerment, family values and its pull-yourselves-up-by-the-bootstrap message -- right in line with the GOP talking points.
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Despite the pioneer bootstrap culture of the Americans who make their own way in the world, we also feel disempowered by the large complex institutions that govern our lives from government to financial to medical institutions.
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Virtually every local entrepreneur I meet, digital aficionado or not, knows the story by heart: two local Jordanians Samih Toukan and Hussam Khoury, bootstrap their way from consulting company to web developers, to an Arabic web email service.
While we gripe about a lack of startup capital, it may be the Canadian startups with the most potential are getting the funded, while the rest are left to bootstrap, borrow, apply for incubators and accelerators, tap into tax credits, etc.
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