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Bootstrapping Organic Growth Makes Startup Sense

When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Despite all the focus you hear on external investors, over 90% of startups today are self-funded.

I grew to appreciate this approach much more when I interviewed a popular serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen a while back, who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping. He published a book with Ron Porter, titled "Bootstrap Business", that provides a wealth of practical examples and advice on this subject.

Martin Zwilling

Full Story: http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2014/11/bootstrapping-organic-growth-makes.html

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