General Education · Learning Games
Bootstrapping: growing without outside investors
Building a Business · Venture capital · 3 lessons · 9 questions · 6-min video
Bootstrapping means funding a business from your own money and its revenue. Christian Hernandez tells the stories of MicroStrategy, GoPro, Craigslist and Nordeus, which grew this way.
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Sources and credits
From the lecture by Christian Hernandez (Co-founder and Managing Partner at White Star Capital), Building a Business 2014, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Every lesson links to its part of the video on YouTube.
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