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 ...

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 ...

Self-funding a business is not for the faint of heart. If successful, choosing the self-funding, or bootstrapping, route over seeking funding can yield countless rewards, including retaining control ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even after your business is off the ground and growing, there are several bootstrapping options you should consider to keep your company lean. Anyone who’s started a business on a shoestring is adept ...

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 ...

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 ...

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror ...