It can be really risky when you start a business with your own money. However, a lot of business end up getting started this way. One of these businesses is Barbell Apparel, who’s athletic fit clothing company was started this way, until they asked for a backing on Kickstarter. The featured podcast talks about how they raised more than 49 times their goal.
Key Takeaways:
- Bootstrapping a business can be scary. You’re playing with your own money after all. But many successful businesses are born this way without any help from external capital.
- Take Hunter Molzen for example, the founder of Barbell Apparel, a store that sells premium denim, chinos, and shorts engineered for performance with a tailored athletic fit.
- On this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn how he completely bootstrapped a business that has now sold 40,000 pairs of pants.
“Bootstrapping a business can be scary. You’re playing with your own money after all. But many successful businesses are born this way without any help from external capital.”
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