What bootstrapping your business is all about
The concept of bootstrapping is simple: You don’t take outside funding and find ways to make your business profitable without spending any money. Here are some of the pros of bootstrapping your business:
Retaining control
So many start-ups fail because they lose control over their finances, time, and vision. When you’re bootstrapping your business, you’ll always know exactly how much money you have in the bank and where it’s going because everything has to be done manually. You’ll also know precisely how much time it takes to complete specific tasks and what kind of impact they have on other aspects of your business. This means you can make informed decisions based on real data rather than intuition or guesswork.
Focusing efforts
With a bootstrapped business, no investors are breathing down your neck demanding results or threatening lawsuits if their money isn’t returned in x months/years! You can take as long as is needed to get things right without pressure from others pushing you along too quickly or too slowly or, even worse, making decisions for you!
Conserving capital
Bootstrapping your business means you’re not spending money in areas that aren’t essential to the success of your business. This can be particularly important if you have limited funds to start up or grow your business. It also means that you will be able to hire staff once you have more capital, which can be good if you need more experience to make good hiring decisions.
Saving time
Bootstrapping a business doesn’t just conserve capital; it also saves time because it forces you to learn how to do things yourself instead of hiring others to do them for you. This might mean that you need to learn how to use specific software applications or learn accounting basics so that if one day your accountant goes out on maternity leave, you’ll know what’s going on with your finances and can run things by yourself until she returns.
Conclusion
The biggest takeaway from this article should be that if you want to get the most for your money and bootstrapping with a low budget, try collaborating with multiple freelancers until you can afford to work with one full-time. That way, you can have multiple people working on the same tasks while still being able to hire one person in the long run. As a bonus, if you find a freelancer who’s excited about your project, they might stick around even after your funding situation changes.
