When you take venture capital money, investors will shape everything from your strategy and product to your thought process. That may not be best for what you’re offering, especially in the AI space, ...

Startups face a far more challenging environment in 2016 than they have in the past few years. Funding is becoming scarcer, IPOs are increasingly rare – not to mention the typical investor ...

Don’t get discouraged. You can launch your tech startup without venture capital, and with only a few changes to your strategy. Bootstrapping your tech startup will give you more control, greater ...

Dream of building a startup, but don't have funding? You can always do what Tyson Quick, founder of Instapage, did, and bootstrap your way to the top. Quick went from moving to San Francisco and ...

Every dollar counts, and you quickly learn to focus on paying customers and measuring ROI before chasing vanity metrics.

Founder Friday is a weekly guest post written by a founder who is based in or hails from the Silicon Prairie. Each month, a topic relevant to startups is presented and founders share lessons learned ...

Originally published by Sramana Mitra on LinkedIn: Can You Bootstrap A Unicorn Startup With Your Paycheck? Let’s say you have a great idea for a startup and you have the ambition of building a billion ...

We hear a lot about big venture capital rounds and the the mythical unicorn startup companies valued at more than $1 billion. But some of the most powerful entrepreneurial stories involve those who ...

Read any tech publication, raising a round appears to be the only way to grow a business. But think again (and not because of stock market uncertainty or the length of time it takes to close a round).

Whenever I think of thousands of startups that are beginning their journeys every day, I remind myself of Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball”. A true story about the MLB manager Billy Beane who guided his ...

Figuring out how things can be done better is the first essential goal for any entrepreneur. This is no different for recovering attorney and DreamIt Ventures founding partner David Bookspan, he said ...

In my previous job at a startup based in Amsterdam, my job description was – how to put this – ‘flexible’. As a non-technical member of a company developing a new kind of scalable, real-time graph ...