9 things your startup doesn’t need to reach $10 million in revenue

GUEST: As an early stage entrepreneur, you’ll rarely be short of people offering their (often unsolicited) advice, and many of them will tell you that you can’t succeed as a startup without doing X, Y, and Z. Don’t listen to them. From my experience of bootstrapping a company to over $25 million ARR and 3,800 percent revenue growth over the last five years, I’ve found there are rather a lot of supposedly indispensable things you can do without, as long as you get the basi