Me and my business partner, Mareza, have decidedly bootstrapped our company. Bootstrapping is the process of building a business using personal finances or the revenue generated by the business itself ...

When you're first starting a business, one of the first things you'll need to do is figure out how you'll fund it. There are plenty of options — from crowdfunding to loans or grants. But the simplest ...

One of the earliest and most critical decisions an entrepreneur must make is whether to self-fund a startup by bootstrapping, or raise outside funding through venture capital. The implications of each ...

After recent conversations with Y Combinator alumni and other promising entrepreneurs, I hear many of them have no plans to ...

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.