Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The past decade has seen a significant rise in startup ecosystems on a global level. From the U.S. to Israel to France, Brazil and India, ...

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

The lack of diversity among startup founders isn’t about talent or intellect. It’s money. A study published by RateMyInvestor exposed the bitter truth: Black startup founders only make up a measly 1% ...

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, ...

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This is about raising capital through friends, family, customers, and individual investors. It’s done by using online platforms. Consider Jenny Woo, the founder and CEO of Mind Brain Emotion. She ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...

Taking the huge risk of quitting your job and starting your own company is pretty scary in itself. Add to that the worries of how you’re going to pay the rent and how you’re going to pay off your ...

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 ...