Be Your Own VC

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Half a million businesses are started every year in the US and less than 5 percent will successfully raise outside capital. Ninety-five percent of ideas will have to bootstrap to survive. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A bootstrapped entrepreneur is someone willing to build what they have to so they can then build what they want to. It's a powerful mindset aimed at survival above all-even if you decide to go raise money. Bootstrappers are better equipped to work within their means maintain control of their vision and maximize their own shareholder value. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Be Your Own VC</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> serial entrepreneur and CEO James Benham shares ten business principles and the story of testing them over two decades. He describes how bootstrapping led his tech company to a multimillion-dollar exit and the freedom to build what they love. This guidebook is for innovators with a goal-and those who advise them. </span></p>