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FinanceFoundationalDecision

Bootstrap or Raise?

Decide whether to fund your startup with customer revenue or investor money — what each path demands, what it costs you, and which one your business can actually support.

What you walk away with

A made decision — plus a shareable summary capturing what you chose, the reasoning behind it, what you ruled out, and what would make you revisit it. There's no document to build here: the thinking is the deliverable.

14 steps in the full journey.

The first 3 questions

This is where the conversation starts. Each answer shapes what gets asked next.

  1. 01What are you building, and where does it stand — idea, MVP, paying customers? What's putting the funding question on the table right now?
  2. 02What's your personal financial situation — savings, obligations, other income — and how long can you honestly afford to keep working on this at the current pace?
  3. 03What do you want this company to be in five years — a profitable business you own and control, or a swing at a big venture-scale outcome?

+ 11 more questions across discovery, validation, and the creative brief — each one adapting to what you've already said.

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