December 3, 2009 6:30 PM - 120 attended

Bootstrapping vs. Venture Funding

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Bootstrapping vs. Venture Funding


    Topics:
  • Objectives of this panel
    o To help entrepreneurs determine whether venture funding or bootstrapping is more appropriate for their project.
    o Understanding how to position your company for financing success under each scenario.
  • The investor's perspective
    o What is a venture fund (limited partners, general partners)?
    o Expected returns on portfiolio companies (~80% failures, ~15% breakeven, ~5% blockbuster)
    o Motivations of a venture capitalist in making an investment decision
    o Characteristics of a fundable company (concept, market size, team, barriers to entry, etc)
    o Venture funding success stories: Google, Amazon...
  • The bootstrapper's perspective
    o What is bootstrapping?
    o Characteristics of a bootstrap-able company (early revenue, low capital requirements, low burn rate, etc)
    o Bootstrapping success stories:Placebase, PlentyOfFish, MacRumors.
    o Funding sources for bootstrappers: founder savings, full-time job, consulting, organic growth, etc.
  • Would I ever want to seek funding for a company that could be bootstrapped? Would I ever want to bootstrap a company that could be venture funded? Why?
  • The right time to seek funding. What is the right "state" of the venture for seeking funding?
  • Pitfalls to avoid - Common outcomes for non-fundable companies which seek venture funding.

    Moderator:
  • Owen Davis, Managing Director at NYC Seed


    Panelists (alphabetic order):
  • Art Chang, CEO of Tipping Point Partners
  • Brian Cohen, Founder/President of iFluence PR and Board Member at New York Angels
  • Mark Davis, IT Venture Capitalist at DFJ Gotham Ventures
  • Dennis Mortensen, Director of Data Insights at Yahoo! and founder of Canvas, Evonax, and IndexTools (now Yahoo! Analytics)

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