Clate Mask
Clate Mask, JD/MBA from BYU, is the co-founder and CEO of software company Infusionsoft. He raised nearly $17mil in venture capital funding from Silicon-Valley based Mohr Davidow Ventures and vSpring Capital after bootstrapping Infusionsoft from 2001 to 2007. Clate's mission is to revolutionize the way small businesses grow. More than 16,000 small business subscribers use Infusionsoft's SaaS marketing automation solution, which comes with a 'Double Your Sales' guarantee. He is on Twitter as @clatemask
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10 lessons in bootstrapping a business
(Editor’s note: Clate Mask is co-founder and CEO of Infusionsoft. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
There are two ways to build a business: Raise a bunch of money or bootstrap. When I was in business school, there wasn’t much attention given to the bootstrapping notion. The “MBA way” of growing a business is to write a business plan, raise money and then execute the business plan. But I think that’s almost always the wrong approach.
We bootstrapped Infusionsoft… Continue Reading