6 Reasons to Bootstrap Your Startup Instead of Taking Venture Capital

Bootstrapped Businesses Have a Far Higher Chance of Success

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
4 min readOct 22, 2021

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Consider Bootstrapping Your Startup. Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

This article may seem ironic given that most of my other articles are about how to raise venture capital. But before starting down the path of a venture business, I urge startups to consider the alternative — bootstrapping.

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