Entrepreneur Who Bootstrapped to an IPO Explains How He Succeeded Without Venture Capital

By knowing the right strategies, maybe you can do it, too…

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
4 min readAug 16, 2021

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Most entrepreneurs hoping to build billion dollar unicorn startups that ultimately IPO think they have to raise venture capital. While taking VC money is certainly the more common pathway toward reaching the public…

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com