10 Reasons Why I Self-Funded My Startup and So Should You
In this article entrepreneur Jon Yongfook talks about the ten reasons he self-funded his software company and what he learned from the process as well.
Bootstrapping and Self-Funding Success Stories
Bootstrapped: How 75 Entrepreneurs Successfully Bootstrapped Their Startups and How You Can Too
In this book author James Garvin looks at how 75 successful companies and entrepreneurs bootstrapped their businesses and how you can bootstrap your own business to success too.
Why I Turned Down Investor Money for My Company
In this article Alexander Torrenegra, Founder of Voice123 and VoiceBunny, talks about how he founded an online startup in 2003 and have been running it cashflow positive since then without raising any funding.
No VC, No Problem: How TeachBoost Built a Sustainable Edtech Business
This news piece talks about how TeachBoost graduated from Imagine K12’s accelerator program, faced difficulty when raising funding, and decided to bootstrap the business to profitability by focusing on its customers.
A Bootstrapped Startup’s Journey to $80,000 in Monthly Revenue
In this article Orchestra Founder Teren Teh talks about how he and his teammates have grown the company from $0 in MRR to $80,000 in MRR while bootstrapping it.
Rich Thornett on bootstrapping Dribbble
In this article DNSimple interviews Rich Thornett, Co-founder of Dribbble, about what Rich was working on before Dribbble, how he bootstrapped Dribble so it could support him and his co-founder full-time, and more.
How we grew by 292% m-o-m in revenue?
In this article, Dominik Vacikar, Co-founder of Spaceship, talks about how he and his team bootstrapped the company to consistent growth through referrals, direct outreach, reseller programs, and more.
10 Things I Learned Bootstrapping My First 4 Apps to Six Figures
In this article Impossible Ventures founder Joel Runyon goes into detail about how his company has released four different apps that have generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue.
Bootstrapping in Unicorn Land
In this article CMX Co-founder and CEO David Spinks talks about how the struggles of raising funding for his first startup led him to bootstrap his second startup and what that experience has been like.
Lessons from Sixteen Months of Bootstrapping at Underdog.io
In this post Underdog.io Co-founder Chris Muir discusses how he and his co-founder bootstrapped their company to nearly $1,000,000 in annual recurring revenue in just 16 months.
Getting To $100,000 – Bootstrapping A Successful Business Is Easier Than You Think
In this article bootstrapper entrepreneur Brandon Savage tells the story of how he built a $100,000 business that supports his life without raising any funding.
I bootstrapped a SaaS business from idea to $20,000+/mo in recurring revenue in 11 months, made all of our revenue metrics public, raised $500k in funding and have hired 6 people. AMA
In this article Baremetrics Founder and CEO Josh Pigford talks about how he bootstrapped his business to $20,000 in MRR and then raised $500,000 to continue to fund its expansion.
10 Things I learned while running a bootstrapped SaaS Business
In this article the founder of inBoundio talks about how he’s bootstrapped his business to steady growth and consistent income and the ten most important things he’s learned in the process.
How bootstrapping helped my business cheat death
In this article BizeeBee and Femgineer founder Poornima Vijayashanker talks about how she saved BizeeBee by bootstrapping it for a couple years until it reached profitability.
Bootstrapped, Profitable, and Proud
In this collection of articles from Basecamp, successful and profitable bootstrapped software companies are profiled from their humble founding stories to the millions of dollars they generate in revenue now.