
Bootstrapping to Success
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Bootstrapping: Why These Entrepreneurs Chose Bootstrapping instead of VCs and Are Happier AND Richer For It

ProductPlan, a homegrown startup here in Santa Barbara began with a 10 x 10 office and the goal to remain bootstrapped. Learn how Jim Semick and his partner Greg Goodman used their market validation and software skills to surface a good idea and get their product launched fast. ProductPlan has grown into a 30 person company with no outside funding.
Software companies aren't the only ones that are technical and VC funded. Learn how reformed startup technology player Scott Stephan turned a passion for making beer into a profitable fast growing brewery, Draughtsmen Aleworks, right here in Goleta without tapping into big finance capital.
In today’s investment first profit whenever VC world, setting up a small business to make money right away almost seems like a quaint, and old school. However, in listening to these entrepreneurs stories, it’s clear that not all paths to startup success travel through Silicon Valley or VCs . They all took the bootstrapping road (or dirt path?) less traveled, and most surprisingly, are better for it.
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