Business Funding
5 Reasons Bootstrapping Your Business is the Best Thing You Can Do
Investors know those companies that are bootstrapped know how to run the business and ensure equity.
By Brian Foley
Bootstrapping | Page 4
Building a Business
10 Free Online Tools Every Entrepreneur Should Know About
Here are tools which will make your life easier and help your business take off right away.
Business Accounting
The Beauty of Bartering: A Smart Way to Start and Grow Your Business
Don't have the cash you need to pay vendors and employees? Bartering could be the answer.
Building a Business
3 Alternatives Better Than Raising Startup Capital From the 3 F’s
Of all the burdens a startup founder bears, none is heavier than knowing family, friends and fools who believed them have their savings on the line.
By Ahmad Raza
Building a Business
How Bootstrapping and Growing Slowly Helped This Company Succeed
Max Fishko started working in art fairs when he was 14. Now, at 33, he's running a profitable business that's turning a seven-figure revenue.
Building a Business
10 Bootstrapping Tips to Turn Your Idea Into Reality
Bootstrapping a business isn't an easy task. It's very challenging -- but it's not impossible.
Building a Business
16 Tips for Upcoming Self-Made Entrepreneurs
Whatever your hustle is, I salute you.
By Andrew Medal
Building a Business
4 Ways to Surviving the Bootstrapping Years
Bootstrapping makes you tough and forces your company to prove itself day in and day out.
By Clate Mask
Building a Business
3 Simple Strategies for Success When Money Is Scarce
Growth results when you make smart adjustments today based on what you learned yesterday.
Building a Business
How to Decide Whether to Crowdfund or Bootstrap Your Business
How you chose to fund your business has a lot to with how much control you are willing to lose and how hard it is to explain your idea.
Building a Business
3 Musts for Bootstrapping Success and 3 Traps to Avoid
For all the talk of seed rounds and venture capital, the huge majority of founders are spending their own money.
Building a Business
The Myths and Pitfalls of Raising Money
There are a bunch of important ones. Bootstrapping your business instead may well be your best bet.
Tech
Good Software Is Essential, Even for the Penny-Pinching Start-Up
The Softmaker Office Suite, WorkflowMax and Socedo are just a few programs you'll need when starting your business -- and they won't break your bank.
Building a Business
The Bootstrappers’ Advantage: Scarcity Boosts Creativity
A new study proves the old adage: "necessity is the mother of invention."
By Nina Zipkin
Business Ideas
Two Founders Share Real-World Bootstrapping Secrets
Learn from people who've been there and made it work.
Business Accounting
Demystifying 11 Fundamentals for Financing Your Business
At some point most businesses will need an infusion of capital, here are the most common ways to get it.
Thought Leaders
For Entrepreneurs, One Really Can Be the Loneliest Number
Solo entrepreneurs often find themselves facing mental as much as business challenges. Here are ways to take care of yourself during the journey.
By Peter Gasca
Building a Business
The 10 Bootstrapping Mantras to Quick Cash
Bootstrapping is not the easy way out -- it can take longer than expected -- but it will be worth it.
By Andrew Medal
Building a Business
Are You Approaching Investors With No Business Plan and Fuzzy Profit Projections? Get Real.
The odds of finding funding generally correlate highly to your odds of business success -- and your personal risk is even more critical than outside investor risk.
Building a Business
Houzz Co-Founder Adi Tatarko Tells Us Why Bootstrapping Was the Best Thing for the Company
Tatarko initially launched her home design company with her husband as a side project. Now it is reportedly valued at more than $2 billion.
By Nina Zipkin
Business Accounting
Bootstrapping Is Much More Fun Than Investors
Bootstrapping does require a full confidence in your own passion with no investors to lean on or blame. But isn't that why you signed up to be an entrepreneur in the first place?
Building a Business
4 Tremendous Benefits of Bootstrapping a Company
Why run to investors when doing it yourself brings your business business benefits?
By Zach Cutler
Business Funding
7 Reasons You Should Stop Looking for Venture Capital
Most companies can afford to -- and should -- be a little scrappier. Here's why.
Building a Business
7 Ways to Bootstrap Your Business to Success
You don't need a lot of money upfront to build up a startup. Here's why.
Building a Business
We’re Bringing Unsexy Back to Entrepreneurship
Sometimes, the Plain Jane journeyman approach is the best when building a business and a lifestyle.
By Andrew Yang
Building a Business
The 8 Key Rules of Starting the Business of Your Dreams on a Shoestring Budget
The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first.
Building a Business
Detroit Is Cultivating Local Entrepreneurship to Secure Its Future
The Motor City isn't waiting for a savior to move to town. It's banking on the energy of the people who call it home.
By Amanda Lewan