The lack of diversity among startup founders isn’t about talent or intellect. It’s money. A study published by RateMyInvestor exposed the bitter truth: Black startup founders only make up a measly 1% ...

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 ...

Bootstrapping requires you to build a company with little to no venture capital or outside investment. This can be rewarding and allow founders to keep as much ownership of their company as possible, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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The way Adam Griffin, CEO of Bodeefit, sees it, startups have a few avenues for growth. There’s venture capital, there’s bootstrapping it yourself and there’s growing without paying for it. And by not ...

In April 2013, I had $200 to my name, a pair of Wrangler jeans and a whole lot of ambition due to a personal obstacle I had just conquered. Unfortunately, ambition doesn’t pay the bills, and I had to ...

One of the main drivers of innovation in our classic business market is funding. To innovate costs money, and so obviously, that money and where that money goes drives who gets to innovate and even ...

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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 ...