Bootstrapping

Entrepreneurs

Self-Made Is Well-Played: Why Bootstrapping Is the Way To Go For Entrepreneurs

Bootstrapping your business allows you to eliminate all undesirable externalities, leaving you the freedom to direct your business and resources.

Business News

Stages of Funding a Startup

A startup may require to raise various rounds of funding to establish and expand its business. In this article, we introduce you to different stages of funding.

Growing a Business

How I Expanded My Company to 150+ Countries, and You Can Too

It's all about bootstrapping.

Entrepreneurs

Sumting Fresh Founders Started Their Food Truck With R20 000 And Gifted Utensils

Hezron Louw and Andrew Leeuw started Sumting Fresh with nothing. It wasn't an easy ride and they thought about throwing in the towel on more than one occasion, but success is all the sweeter now.

Starting a Business

No Money to Start? No Problem. Try These 5 Options to Fund Your Business.

Follow these simple guidelines to fund the business of your choosing for little to no capital.

Money & Finance

5 Leading Entrepreneurs Share Their Best Advice for Bootstrapping a Business

Work with those you trust, pick the right business, and roll up your sleeves, say Kara Goldin, Tai Lopez, and others.

Women Entrepreneur™

Relebohile Moeng Shares Her Lessons in Bootstrapping a Successful Beauty Startup

After being retrenched from a senior position in 2010, Relebohile Moeng took the brave step to launch a business in an industry she knew nothing about. Here's how she's achieved success.

Thought Leaders

From Unemployment to CEO: 4 Things This Mom Did to Turn Her Passion Into a Thriving Business

With an unemployed husband and little money, this entrepreneur had to be scrappy. But she had to stay healthy at the same time. So she combined the two.

Thought Leaders

When Their Investor Bailed, These Female Founders Launched Their Company Anyway

Riawna Capri and Nikki Lee bootstrapped a single hair salon in Hollywood. When a client requested a braiding style, the stylists decided to 'own' the trend.

Starting a Business

The Ultimate 101 List Of SA Business Ideas To Get You Started

Want to boost your income on a part-time basis? Looking for a new business to start and grow into an empire? You've come to the right place. This list of business ideas will help children, adults, men, women and even people in rural areas think about ways to become an entrepreneur.

Starting a Business

How To Start A Business With No Money

So you want to be in business for yourself but you have little or no cash to put up as capital. You are well aware that the funding options for start-up businesses are severely restricted; you may even have heard that only about 3% of people looking for substantial outside funds to launch a new venture ever raise the capital they require. So what do you do?

Entrepreneurs

10 SA Entrepreneurs Who Built Their Businesses From Nothing

Remarkable stories about local entrepreneurs who built big businesses and well-known brands up from humble beginnings.

Thought Leaders

How Coachella and an Old Postal Truck Helped Launch Ice Cream Brand Coolhaus

The founders of the beloved sweet treat started small and scrappy -- and now they're ready to take over the ice cream aisle.

Operations & Logistics

How This College Dropout Created a Fast-Growing But 'Culture-First' Hollywood PR Agency

As founder and CEO of Metro PR, Tess Finkle has built a business that serves its clients and employees alike.

Entrepreneurs

The Founder of Malaysia's First Sugar Dating Platform Wants People to Build Honest and Transparent Relationships

Darren Chan says Sugarbook has seen 1,500 per cent rise in revenue in the past one year