42 Great Resources to Learn Better Bootstrapping

Raising money from external sources isn’t bad at all. You get to minimize the risk and focus on building the business rather than worrying about pinching the pennies. On the other hand, bootstrapping your business with personal savings and revenue is finding a lot of takers of late. It’s a hard path to tread, but the rewards are worth the hardship.

Two factors that work in favor of bootstrapping are the ability to retain control over your business and a free reign over the execution of ideas. After the break, we have compiled a list of articles from the blogosphere to help spread the wisdom of bootstrapping. Read on.

5 Ways to Bootstrap Your Startup

Bootstrapping a startup is not easy, requiring discipline and fortitude, as well as ingenuity. But entrepreneurs who have done it have discovered some best practices to increase the odds of success. In this article Rachel Blankstein of Comparz, shares her experience.

Bootstrapping Your Start-Up Business with Little or No Money

The good news, is that many new start-ups are launched with very little money at all. Michael Dell started his company, Dell Computer, out of his college dorm room for less than $1,000. In fact, many of the world’s greatest companies were not only started with very little money, they were also started in the midst of very poor economic environments. Learn how to combat an economic downturn.