Jason M. LemkinCEO, SaaStr · Co-Founder of SaaStr AI, SaaStr Fund, Adobe Sign

Bootstrapping a Business: Surviving on Cash Flow

12 Jul 2023 · 0 min

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Speaker (Jason M. Lemkin) describes bootstrapping a company for about 10 years, starting the company in 2005, and raising the first outside funding in July 2015; emphasizes that when you bootstrap you must understand cash flow or the business can fail.

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2005.

July 2015.

About 10 years.

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