Today, we speak to a handful of start-ups that have managed to build successful businesses by relying on their own cashflow rather than going cap in hand to VCs.
Not that the process is easy – as Didier Elzinga of CultureAmp puts it, bootstrapping a business makes you “bleed a bit for an idea.”
New mentor Tom O’Toole explains how you should delegate to staff and in the first of our guides on how to start certain businesses, we look at how the bed and breakfast market is shaping up.
Oliver Milman, editor
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