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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Bootstrapping your business feels safe. You’re relying on your own savings, reinvesting profits, and avoiding debt. I get it—I took pride in pinching pennies when I launched Options MD, my health tech ...

Entrepreneurs who have successfully navigated the mass retail market without relying on venture capital shared their journeys on Essence Festival’s Soko Mrkt panel “Bootstrapping Your Business,” ...

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 ...

Bootstrapping is an approach where entrepreneurs use their own resources and rely on revenue generated by the business to grow. Bootstrapping is when an entrepreneur starts a company with little ...

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 ...