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Money talks. There is no way to start a startup if the entrepreneur does not have enough capital to start the business. While it is important to have a good team, a great innovative, disruptive and ...

“Bootstrapping,” the strategy of starting a company by, as the age-old adage goes, “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” — using your own money, or cash from someone you know — is one of a number ...

"Bootstrapping" real estate strategies like wholesaling have exploded in popularity in recent years. Although they've worked in the past, veteran investor Dave Allred says they're not viable in 2023.

Most tech entrepreneurs these days stay away from services because investors are looking for high-margin, repeatable revenue. Service revenues don’t command the same multiples that product revenues do ...

From governance and unit economics to liquidity and long-term resilience, industry leaders debate how capital strategy is ...

It's a popular theme to observe how everyone either benignly neglects or outright picks on entrepreneurs, from banks to government to the media, even though small businesses fuel 80% of economic ...

Silicon Valley headlines often report on the size of venture capital raised by a startup -- the bigger the funding, the bigger the story. But this is a poor way to understand the startup community.