10 Extreme Bootstrapping Ideas
Putting every dollar you make back into your company, and not your pocket, can be brutal. These cost-saving tips can help. Read more
Imported From Israel: 4 Key Start-up Lessons
On a per capita basis, you could argue that Israel leads the world in start-up success. Inc.com contributor Peter Cohan looks at how several Israeli entrepreneurs beat unlikely odds. Read more
Start a Business on the Cheap: 10 Growth Industries
Here's the skinny on 10 industries primed for cash-strapped start-ups. View slideshow
How Shutterstock Went From Zero to IPO
Serial entrepreneur Jon Oringer bought one $800 camera to seed his own stock-photo business. Now that company is worth $760 million. Read more
The Bootstrapper's Dream: Low Costs and High Growth
We crunched the data to pinpoint industries with the lowest start-up costs--and highest growth potential. Here are the results. Read more
Case Study: How One Scrappy CEO Landed an AT&T Partnership
Philip Walker started Network Solutions Provider the old-fashioned way: By going door to door. Read more
Case Study: No Marketing Budget? Win Over Bloggers Instead
Photographer Ron Henry knew his camera strap was a winner. Now he just needed to get the word out on the cheap. Read more
Case Study: Keep Your Day Job & Start a Business
Nick Chasinov spent five years building his business while holding down another full-time position. Here's what he learned. Read more
Recent Bootstrapper's Bible Articles
How to Build a Real Sales Team
How to get yourself out of day-to-day sales and bring in the pros. Read more
How To Outwit Your Brain Chemistry
When faced with uncertainty, the brain is wired to quit. But some entrepreneurs know how to activate their brains' reward pathways and persevere. Read more
Bootstrapping a Services Business: 3 Simple Steps
My self-funded company was named one of the fastest-growing in the San Francisco Bay Area. And bootstrapping is even easier now. Read more
3 Super-Cheap Marketing Tactics
There's no longer any excuse for letting your marketing slide. Read more
Make This Tiny Change to Meet Your Biggest Goals
This year, when checking in with my New Year's resolutions, I changed one way I'd been thinking. It might make all the difference for your business. Read more
Bootstrapping a Hardware Company: 4 Tips
How can you bootstrap when you have to build an actual product? And a complicated one, at that? Read more
How We Got Funded: Qualtrics
Attracting capital is like getting married: Sometimes it helps to play hard to get. Read more
Evan Williams's Start-up Secret: Just Hang On
The co-founder of Twitter and Medium, perhaps best known as @Ev, explains the power of conviction when starting a company through tales of his ups and downs ... Read more
5 Thoughts to Make You a Better Salesperson
Do you give up after a few sales calls? Expect new business to come from every networking event? It's time for a shift in mindset that you can take all the w... Read more
'I Launched Virgin With Just $200' 
Richard Branson talks about the small amount of money he got to get his simple business off the ground--the beginning of the Virgin empire. Watch video
4 Secrets to Starting a Company With Your Spouse
Two of the most fraught relationships around: married couple, and start-up co-founders. Don't let that stop you. Read more
7 Things Marketers Should Know About Tumblr
As the 32nd most popular website in the world, Tumblr is a big opportunity. But you can't approach it as you would other marketing strategies. Read more
How We Got Funded: Visual Revenue
When bootstrapping didn't cut it, the founders of Visual Revenue went out and raised $2.2 million. Read more
Warby Parker of Shoes? Meet Beckett Simonon
Two guys from Colombia are hacking the traditional retail supply chain and selling fashionable shoes--straight from the factory--for $79. Will it work? Read more
Is Bootstrapping Right For You? How to Decide
A serial entrepreneur helps you decide if you should bootstrap or if you should seek venture capital. Read more