7 uninteresting ways to achieve success in fundraising.

By Jeff Brooks

You have to be nerdy to be effectively cheap. You have to know a lot of vendors — including their strengths and weaknesses — and keep up with changes in technology that can raise or lower costs. The more you know about this boring stuff, the better cheapskate you  can be.

Then again, you can't cut your way to growth. Cutting everything is part of the dumb and destructive path.