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, ...

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.

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 ...

Date and Amount of Funding Received: First bootstrap, and then July 2023 $3.5 million in VC funding in an oversubscribed round. What does your company do? A custom legal-editing product that offers 11 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...