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, ...

Strong financial planning can help founders to better understand how much capital they actually need and when they might need it the most, supporting better planning for the ebbs and flows of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Bootstrapping sounds romantic until you are three months in, staring at Stripe payouts, credit card balances, and a spreadsheet you have reopened twelve times today. When there is no safety net, every ...

Provide a valuable benefit; Communicate that benefit to those that need it; and Manage your cash flow. If you do those three things well, your chances of success soar. If you miss any one of the three ...

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 ...

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 ...