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% ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The past decade has seen a significant rise in startup ecosystems on a global level. From the U.S. to Israel to France, Brazil and India, ...

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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, ...

This is about raising capital through friends, family, customers, and individual investors. It’s done by using online platforms. Consider Jenny Woo, the founder and CEO of Mind Brain Emotion. She ...

Admittedly, bootstrapping has its downside: the biggest drawback being the limit to how quickly you can get your product/service to market and how fast you can execute at a larger scale. Also, without ...

Read any tech publication, raising a round appears to be the only way to grow a business. But think again (and not because of stock market uncertainty or the length of time it takes to close a round).

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 ...

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 ...

Taking the huge risk of quitting your job and starting your own company is pretty scary in itself. Add to that the worries of how you’re going to pay the rent and how you’re going to pay off your ...

Don’t get discouraged. You can launch your tech startup without venture capital, and with only a few changes to your strategy. Bootstrapping your tech startup will give you more control, greater ...

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