Colorado Startup Accelerator Ecosystem – Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs

This article is an overview of Colorado Startup Accelerator Ecosystem – major hubs and the gaps in its traditional startup accelerator ecosystem. It shows how 1Mby1M can address the gaps and help solo founders in Colorado prioritize profitability and capital efficiency.  Colorado has long held a reputation as a haven for outdoor enthusiasts, craft breweries,

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Bootstrapping First from Colorado, Then Scaling with VC Funds: Faction CEO Luke Norris (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What does this do to your revenue? You’re approaching $20 million in revenue and you’re facing competition. What happens? How does the revenue change? Luke Norris: At this point, the revenue started to flatten a little. We’re growing but we’re not growing anywhere near what we used to. We’re still finding our way

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Bootstrapping First from Colorado, Then Scaling with VC Funds: Faction CEO Luke Norris (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a little bit about the co-labelled and white-labelled channel partnerships that kicked in gear. How did they come about? Luke Norris: We had established an early go-to market motion. The key to this next level of success was NetApp. We were able to co-label with them where they were signing

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Bootstrapping First from Colorado, Then Scaling with VC Funds: Faction CEO Luke Norris (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Do you have a sense of where your pricing model is settling into based on these early interactions? When you were starting to get bombarded by VCs, did you know where your price point was settling into? Luke Norris: I had an idea where my price point is settling into. Still to this

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Bootstrapping First from Colorado, Then Scaling with VC Funds: Faction CEO Luke Norris (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: At this point, the revenue that you’re making is from this product that you just demonstrated at VMWare? Luke Norris: A third of our revenue is from that. The other third is through the sharing of networking and sharing of compute resources. Sramana Mitra: The revenue that is coming from this product, who

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Bootstrapping First from Colorado, Then Scaling with VC Funds: Faction CEO Luke Norris (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Where were you based while you were doing all this? Luke Norris: I was still in Denver. At that time, I was working a lot in New York. I didn’t have a permanent place out there, but I was there several weeks a month. Sramana Mitra: What happens next and what year are

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Bootstrapping First from Colorado, Then Scaling with VC Funds: Faction CEO Luke Norris (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Luke has executed a tremendously effective Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later strategy with Faction. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Luke Norris: I was born in

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The Economy

One of my readers asked me for comments on the outlook for the global economy. I saw this post on Paul Kedrosky’s site which I think does a very good job summarizing the situation, which effectively, is demand exceeding supply in every dimension. [It’s actually a passage from FT].