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bootstrapping
“Why this founder chose VC over bootstrapping for his second startup”
down the VC route, or why didn't you choose to bootstrap? And I'll just repeat the question for the audio. So, Aidan, why did you go down the VC route for your second business? I think it's a great q
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founder story36:29 – 37:05
“From billions in funding to bootstrapping with seven people”
like, trying to onboard drivers and fight with the cabbies and figure out, like, how do we keep, like, this this this growth and also, like, making it profitable and not wasting billions of dollars. A
22:35 / 23:13
personal lesson22:35 – 23:13
“When bootstrapped startups absolutely must hire their first lawyer”
you can kind of do quite a lot yourself in the very early stages. And, indeed, you know, money is tight. Let's be honest. Like, bootstrapped companies, they don't have the money to go, out and sort of
5:10 / 5:47
tactical advice5:10 – 5:47
with startups than we do design sprints at this point. And, you know, I don't think we can ever encapsulate every single thing that you need to know or that you need to do to start a company, but this is our this is our best take at, like, what you s
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from transcript28:30 – 29:42
“The one customer validation question most founders get wrong”
...kind of bootstrapping? That's a good question. So at this point, we were actually applying to different, incubator accelerator, you know, whatever you wanna call it, programs. Right? And so we were e
12:02 / 12:50
tactical advice12:02 – 12:50
“He used bike messengers and pink butcher paper to bootstrap a $100M business”
freeze, and then we would have bike messengers would show up the next day, you know, three or four, put all the product in bleed boxes, and it was all packaged nicely, etcetera, in pink butcher paper.
13:50 / 14:11
founder story13:50 – 14:11
this notion of you need a foundation for your project, it's a bit more under the radar for people. I think it's a bit harder for people to immediately see like, oh, we need this. We see the people who react the strongest to this and have the stronges
37:20 / 38:34
from transcript37:20 – 38:34
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1:05:13 / 1:06:24
from transcript1:05:13 – 1:06:24
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1:57 / 3:19
from transcript1:57 – 3:19
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from transcript3:00 – 4:02
“Why milestone-based funding kills startup agility and constrains founder agency”
So what they're saying is we don't trust you. We don't want to give you agency. We want to make sure that we pre agree to how you will behave and what you will achieve to give you portions of the mone
24:57 / 25:24
contrarian take24:57 – 25:24
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