While it can be an uncertain path to success, I believe there are many reasons bootstrapping is a better plan for startup founders than pursuing the VC route. The Fast Company Executive Board is a ...

Every dollar counts, and you quickly learn to focus on paying customers and measuring ROI before chasing vanity metrics.

When you take venture capital money, investors will shape everything from your strategy and product to your thought process. That may not be best for what you’re offering, especially in the AI space, ...

Here’s how to bootstrap a resilient startup by balancing slow growth with early revenue, turning limitations into strengths and defining success on your own terms. Bootstrapping offers autonomy and ...

This is about raising capital through friends, family, customers, and individual investors. It’s done by using online platforms. Consider Jenny Woo, the founder and CEO of Mind Brain Emotion. She ...

Following a funding cooldown in 2022 and 2023, more founders are bootstrapping their startups. Bootstrapping lets founders keep more control over their companies compared to taking VC money.

Many entrepreneurs are at the beginning stages of starting and running a business of their own. According to Finder’s Consumer Confidence Index, a whopping 46% of respondents who own a business ...

Bootstrapping your startup means growing your business with little or no venture capital or outside investment. It means relying on your own savings and business revenue to operate and grow. We ...

The party's over—no more easy cheap cash for startups. In fact, current economic uncertainties mean global VC funding is down 53% year over year in the first quarter of 2023. This squeeze is worrying ...

Not all startups have the luxury of getting investors right off the bat–sometimes it takes bootstrapping a business by funding it out of your own pocket. While this is an honorable way to start a ...

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that ...