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 ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY Nacho De Marco In 2009, ...

Explore the contrasts between bootstrapping and venture capital funding for startups, detailing how each option affects company control, culture, and growth. Bootstrapping preserves control and ...

That’s partly tongue-in-cheek but mostly serious, given all the news of markets and investors starting to pay attention to whether companies actually make any money–including in the deified domain of ...

If patience is a virtue, it’s one that’s often ignored by the startup community. Anxious to create the Next Big Thing, many founders assume that the only way to reach their ambitious goals before ...

Bootstrapping sounds romantic until you are three months in, staring at Stripe payouts, credit card balances, and a ...

The boom in venture capital fundraising that the technology startup market has enjoyed since the back half of 2020 has been eye-popping. Record sums have been disbursed around the world as more firms ...

Anyone who’s started a business on a shoestring is adept at bootstrapping or stretching resources -- both financial and otherwise -- as far as they can. But bootstrapping doesn’t have to stop the ...

What are the pros and cons of bootstrapping (on a services model) versus taking an investment, for a first time entrepreneur? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, ...

The following guest post is by Jiyan Wei, cofounder of BuildZoom, a platform that connects homeowners with remodeling contractors, a Y-Combinator-backed startup. “But why would we want to raise ...