When you take venture capital money, investors will shape everything from your strategy and product to your thought process. That may not be best for what you’re offering, especially in the AI space, ...

This is about raising capital through friends, family, customers, and individual investors. It’s done by using online platforms. Consider Jenny Woo, the founder and CEO of Mind Brain Emotion. She ...

In my previous job at a startup based in Amsterdam, my job description was – how to put this – ‘flexible’. As a non-technical member of a company developing a new kind of scalable, real-time graph ...

Bootstrapping your startup means growing your business with little or no venture capital or outside investment. It means relying on your own savings and business revenue to operate and grow. We ...

Many entrepreneurs are at the beginning stages of starting and running a business of their own. According to Finder’s Consumer Confidence Index, a whopping 46% of respondents who own a business ...

While it can be an uncertain path to success, I believe there are many reasons bootstrapping is a better plan for startup founders than pursuing the VC route. The Fast Company Executive Board is a ...

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.

Figuring out how things can be done better is the first essential goal for any entrepreneur. This is no different for recovering attorney and DreamIt Ventures founding partner David Bookspan, he said ...

If you could create your own fantasy board of directors, who would be on it? CO— connects you with thought leaders from across the business spectrum and asks them to help solve your biggest business ...