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Buyers as of late wish to see not solely progress, but additionally a path to profitability — and it isn’t all the time simple for venture-backed startups to all of the sudden appropriate course. However their bootstrapped friends have a leg up, a latest report reveals. 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 comprises an attention-grabbing discovering: In 2022, bootstrapped SaaS firms 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 firms are doing higher than VC-backed firms throughout almost each metric we analyzed,” the SaaS-focused fintech wrote.
