Paul Lavalee explains how he built a successful software venture with good old fashioned bootstrapping. He is now an advisor to software companies looking to grow through IPO’s and mergers and acquisitions. Some of his suggestions for funding:

There are many ways to raise money which are outside the now traditional angels and VC channels. Start by looking creatively at savings, friends & family (but understand the implications if you fail), credit cards, home equity loans, bank loans, federal and local government money, SBA…

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Paul Lavalee explains how he built a successful software venture with good old fashioned bootstrapping. He is now an advisor to software companies looking to grow through IPO’s and mergers and acquisitions. Some of his suggestions for funding:

There are many ways to raise money which are outside the now traditional angels and VC channels. Start by looking creatively at savings, friends & family (but understand the implications if you fail), credit cards, home equity loans, bank loans, federal and local government money, SBA…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005 at 4:37 pm and is filed under Entrepreneurship. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.