Efficient growth? No problem, bootstrapped startups say • TechCrunch
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Buyers today wish to see not solely development, but in addition a path to profitability — and it isn’t at all times simple for venture-backed startups to instantly appropriate course. However their bootstrapped friends have a leg up, a current report reveals. Let’s discover. — Anna
Cheaper development
In 2021, Alex and I puzzled out loud if startups eschewing enterprise capital may have all of it. The reply this 12 months appears to be sure.
Certainly, Capchase’s current Pulse of SaaS report accommodates an attention-grabbing discovering: In 2022, bootstrapped SaaS firms are doing higher than VC-backed startups in lots of respects.
“Regardless of the warfare chest of funding that VC-backed companies raised final 12 months, bootstrapped firms are doing higher than VC-backed firms throughout almost each metric we analyzed,” the SaaS-focused fintech wrote.
