Self funding is the new mega trend in the business today !

Bootstrap startups are not the kind of everyday startups that you get to see on a daily basis. Of course to run any business one needs that x-factor of risk barriers capacity as well as the long run vision for your business. Bootstrappers are the one’s those who start a company with self finance without looking out for investors. For expanding their business goals further and making investors wanting to invest willingly for higher valuation of their startup as a bootstrapper, one must be master of all skills i.e. knowing how to manage people  efficiently  and effectively managing things to attracting early customers.

Here are some successful bootstrap startups you need to know about if you are planning to self-finance your startup.

Snakible

Growing concern for the absurd eating habits of colleague and friends, Aditya Sanghavi the founder Snakible decided to bootstrap his startup. Snakible laid its foundation on May 2015 in Mumbai offering all natural organic and healthy and snacks prepared with the process of baking rather than frying. Snackible delivers healthy, unique and hard-to-find tasty snacks to your doorstep every week or month. And to ensure that their customers have easy asses to healthy snacks the team of snackologists at Snackible put together a box of healthy and tasty snacks using the best quality ingredients. It has its customer base across India existing in 38 cities which is growing 25% each week.

FusionCharts

It all started with no aim for a bang on bootstrap startup with an effective plan for this success story but just a desire of any normal teenager for earning some extra pocket money. Yes we know you just popped your eyes out in disbelieve but it’s true. The idea of FusionCharts was started by Pallav Nandini from Kolkata, the founder of this bootstrap startup by an article written by him on how to make some extra pocket money as a teenager at the age of 17 without any external financial support. And now it has turned into a multi-million dollar business with 24,000 customers and 500,000 developers in 120 countries. This entrepreneurial startup journey has been covered by various magazines like Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Today, and Economic Times.

Indibni

It started with a pure childhood inclination towards art and creating something beautiful and comforting life by the founder stone of Indibni Nitin Jain. Who was later accompanied with his fellow co-founders Ankit Jain and Khusbhu Mathur.Indibni is purely inspired by the roots of India. They customize their work according to their customer needs which results beyond customers expectations. At Indibni they have a wide range of gifting products varying from corporate gifts, souvenirs, personalized gift items, merchandised products.

Kayako

Kayako is indeed a success bootstrap success story of a child entrepreneur. Varoon Sood who was a college dropout founded Kayako in 2001 at the age of 17 having learned to program the software at the age of 13. Kayako is a customer support software service which helps from startups businesses to leading companies and charities and government, to get better at customer service. Kayoka is used by 131,000 support heroes to support 100 million customers. Till date Kayoka is working profitably on self finance without any external financers. Spread across 8 countries. Kayako has more than 30,000 customers around the world. Kayako has an estimated 150 employees and annual revenue of $5M.

QuackQuack.in is India’s slick new modern matchmaking platform designed for the modern Indian, who lives in a booming economy, likes to work hard and party harder and more importantly wouldn’t mind finding his or her perfect partner online. It all started when a friend asked hisother friend that why don’t we have a platform to socialize and meet like-minded people or potential partners. And this question gave birth to the thought of launching an online dating app and this is how QuackQuack.in was founded in 2010. QuackQuack.in currently is one of the fastest growing modern matchmaking platforms and our success comes on the back of a simple and no-nonsense approach taken to help an individual who is genuinely looking to make exciting new relationships – be it a friend, a partner or a soul mate, online!

So what do you think about bootstrapping your startup business idea and how willing are you to self finance your startup?

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