OPINION: You need to spend money to make money. It’s an age old saying but remains true for the vast majority of new businesses.
How you fund your new business will be a major question you need to answer before, or at least in the early days, of you starting your new venture.
The easiest option to fund a start up is to self fund or ‘bootstrap’ your business.
This simply means you put up the funds required to get going and then fund the business out of revenues you make.
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