How about bootstrapping your startup?
Bootstrapping is all about investing in your startup from your personal savings, which means that it's time to break your piggy bank or your fixed deposit. It can also mean investing your salary into the business or another way could be to use your plastic money.
Bootstrapping does mean building a foundation from the ground, with nothing but what all you have got in your pocket.
Benefits-
It helps the owners in experimenting with the ideation process, changing the directions in which the work flows and generating revenue on their own terms without any pressure from the outside investing portals
As you are the one spending time and money, you don’t have to waste your precious time in finding investors and pitching people again and again till the time you receive the guessed out funding you are looking for.
With less amount of cash in your pocket, it allows you to be more creative. This helps you in identifying all the more sets of talents that you own apart from only ideating and marketing. You will find out that you can guide yourself through niches like social media, content writing, etc.
Yes, it is true that bootstrapping your own organization beginning from a thought bubble to conceptualizing it, followed by the execution, it is definitely hard work. But if we consider the positive side, then bootstrapping holds a lot of unwrapped gifts for you once you are out in the market glorifying your business skills.