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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is a big chunk of change worth an arm and a leg? In other words: Should you try to bootstrap your growth or go out in search of investment capital? When it comes to fundraising, that’s the question ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...