Re:I want to get into startups, but I don’t know where to start
by swainner on Thursday March 06, 2014 @01:14AM
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I'll throw my hat in the ring. I started an eCommerce enterprise SaaS focused business in high school as a hobby, sold it for $4M at age 21, bought it back for $32k, built it again into a $6M/year revenue (profitable) business, and sold it again in 2012 to Answers.com. All of this was 100% bootstrapped with revenue, no debt, no outside funding. In neither case, round one or round two, did I self-fund it, other than the $32k -- the revenues from the business funded the business, it wasn't me funding anything. Sure, it was a long slog, but worth it.
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Re:I want to get into startups, but I don’t know where to start
by sayemm on Thursday March 06, 2014 @03:31PM
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I really admire that... props to your success and track record, thanks for chiming in. If I was an investor, sounds like you would make a good bet and someone to keep an eye on.
Starting out, the best way to learn entrepreneurship IMO is to just do it and build it organically like you did.