There are several ways to fund a small business including taking out a loan, applying for a grant and receiving capital from investors. Another alternative is bootstrapping. Here’s what small-business ...

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 ...

Image source: Getty Images People sometimes have a misconception about starting a business -- they think you always need lots of money. But you don't need a small business loan, investors, venture ...

Angelia Kane was so sure the corporate world wasn’t for her that she began freelancing right of college in 1993. She started with web design, moved into consulting and then after the Internet bubble ...

A common term you hear with start-up businesses is bootstrapping. When business owners bootstrap their business, they start and grow their business on limited funding that they would generally receive ...

If you really want to start a business your way without a boss or professional investor hovering over you, then just fund it yourself or through friends and family, and grow it organically. It’s more ...

Whenever I think of thousands of startups that are beginning their journeys every day, I remind myself of Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball”. A true story about the MLB manager Billy Beane who guided his ...

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 ...

The harsh reality of a start-up is the 50 percent mortality rate in the first five years of creation. Every entrepreneur’s aim is to materialise their billion-dollar company. Not only do they want to ...

Ah, the romance. What panache, what bravery, what spirit. Bravo! There’s a devil-may-care, us-against-the-world, Steve-Jobs-in-a-garage aura surrounding the concept of bootstrapping that masks a dour ...