For all the coverage we in the media give it, you'd think venture capital is the only game in town for startup entrepreneurs.
But there's another way, and it doesn't involve begging on the street corner or at your friendly local megabank branch. Nor do you need to pray to angel investors. As Collis Ta'eed—cofounder and chief executive of Envato, a network of websites—writes, you can bootstrap.
His reasons for following your own path, laid out at Alister & Paine, include:
To read the original article: Weigh the options before taking venture capital
