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 ...

Well-funded companies can look healthy long before they actually are. Large budgets allow for oversized teams, vague roles, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Resource Explores How First Customers Can Fund Product Development and Why “Impossible” Problems Create Opportunities Venture capital is not the right choice for many businesses. It works best for a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aytekin Tank is the founder and CEO of Jotform. On the whole, the pandemic was not a good time. But amid those dark days of ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can feel the tension every time you open your inbox. One tab has a half-finished pitch deck, a graveyard of bullet points you’re not sure investors will care about. Another tab has your Stripe ...