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, ...

For many startups, securing financing is more difficult than ever. Following a decade of highs culminating in 2021 and a precipitous drop in 2022, financing norms have changed. VCs, still flush with ...

Bootstrapping is a self-starting process that entrepreneurs use to fund and grow their startups or businesses using their resources or the company's operating revenue. Rather than relying on external ...

Bootstrapping involves relying on personal resources to start your business instead of raising money through a business loan or selling shares in your company. Many, or all, of the products featured ...

Here’s how to bootstrap a resilient startup by balancing slow growth with early revenue, turning limitations into strengths and defining success on your own terms. Bootstrapping offers autonomy and ...

Raising money ain’t what it used to be. Even two years ago, the cost of USDs was cheap and everyone was scaling for a virtual future. As U.S. interest rates hit jaw-dropping lows in 2021, U.S. venture ...

The party's over—no more easy cheap cash for startups. In fact, current economic uncertainties mean global VC funding is down 53% year over year in the first quarter of 2023. This squeeze is worrying ...

Product-led growth is all the rage in the Valley these days, and we had two leading thinkers discuss how to incorporate it into a startup at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021. Tope Awotona is the CEO and ...

(Inc) — Ask an MBA how to start a business, and they’ll likely tell you to craft a business plan, pitch it to investors, secure a healthy dose of initial funding and start cranking the PR engine. But ...