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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This experience allowed me to identify a critical void in financing companies: building healthy capital stacks and navigating the public offering process. With no revenue three years in and an ever-increasing pile of expenses, my personal finances took a hit. Loans replaced savings, and credit lines were stretched to their limits.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). We have witnessed one hell of a startup boom from 2009-2014 which has coincided with the boom in accelerators.

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Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it?

TechCrunch

This should come as no surprise, given that fintech combines two sectors traditionally dominated by men: finance and technology. of the funding raised since 2009, while Latinx female founders saw only 0.4% Add in the intersection of race and ethnicity, and the figures become bleaker: Black women founders received 0.6%

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. They wanted advice. You’re a small fish. This team is talented.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Be an intern” And by the way, this is 2009.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). I know that 80+% of the people listening to me must have thought that was the wrong advice. Tags: Start-up Advice. He wanted to raise angel money. Not my problem.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

My first corporate job was at First Interstate Bank where I worked in Corporate Finance. I had a nice severance check and secured a job with Andersen Consulting very quickly. Next post: two “4-Hour Workweek&# like hacks I started in 2009 to try and take back control of my life that are saving me hours. And his boss.

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