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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa Houston covers financial issues that affect women in business. A common term you hear with start-up businesses is ...

(Editor’s note: Clate Mask is co-founder and CEO of Infusionsoft. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.) There are two ways to build a business: Raise a bunch of money or bootstrap. When I was in ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I love the idea of bootstrapping a business, and it’s how I have grown my companies throughout the years. It forces you to get in the ...

Sixteen years ago, I bootstrapped a services company with a partner who lived 3,000 miles away. We both worked from home. We had pre-owned Macs and fax machines, existing software applications, and ...

Bootstrapping is in many ways the simplest way to start a business. You don’t need to find investors. You don’t need to find a bank willing to lend you money. You don’t need to convince potential ...

Living longer is estimated to be a $600 billion business. The longevity industry is projected to hit $8 trillion by 2030. This entrepreneur wants to be a part of that story.

Entrepreneurs have two paths they can take when building a business: raise capital or bootstrap. In business school, they usually teach the “MBA way” to grow a business, which means write a plan, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When I started my company 10 years ago, I knew it was going to be a long journey. It took three years for our product to generate enough ...

Not all startups have the luxury of getting investors right off the bat–sometimes it takes bootstrapping a business by funding it out of your own pocket. While this is an honorable way to start a ...

I love the idea of bootstrapping a business, and it’s how I have grown my companies throughout the years. It forces you to get in the trenches and work extremely hard. While funding from an investor ...