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Buyers nowadays wish to see not solely progress, but in addition a path to profitability — and it isn’t all the time simple for venture-backed startups to all of a sudden appropriate course. However their bootstrapped friends have a leg up, a latest report exhibits. Let’s discover. — Anna
Cheaper progress
In 2021, Alex and I puzzled out loud if startups eschewing enterprise capital may have all of it. The reply this yr appears to be sure.
Certainly, Capchase’s latest Pulse of SaaS report accommodates an attention-grabbing discovering: In 2022, bootstrapped SaaS corporations are doing higher than VC-backed startups in lots of respects.
“Regardless of the struggle chest of funding that VC-backed companies raised final yr, bootstrapped corporations are doing higher than VC-backed corporations throughout almost each metric we analyzed,” the SaaS-focused fintech wrote.
