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Buyers nowadays wish to see not solely development, but in addition a path to profitability — and it isn’t all the time simple for venture-backed startups to immediately right course. However their bootstrapped friends have a leg up, a current report exhibits. Let’s discover. — Anna
Cheaper development
In 2021, Alex and I questioned out loud if startups eschewing enterprise capital may have all of it. The reply this yr appears to be sure.
Certainly, Capchase’s current Pulse of SaaS report incorporates 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 yr, bootstrapped firms are doing higher than VC-backed firms throughout almost each metric we analyzed,” the SaaS-focused fintech wrote.
