bootstrapping

Happy to answer any questions anyone has about bootstrapping, running a marketplace, trying and failing to raise money, etc.!

VC's always want us to aim high, but for bootstrapping entrepreneurs, it is best to shot low.

That's quite the bootstrapping, and eliminates a lot of upfront work to make things useful.

I've been bootstrapping the development of this game, I'm working on it full time alongside my consultancy work.

I’ve helped tiny startups and large companies, and even tried bootstrapping a startup or two of my own.

Quietly, many corners of HN, people are building and making money by bootstrapping.

I'm not a dev for hire but have plenty of sympathy for your situation and tons of experience bootstrapping.

This leads to a bit of a chicken and egg problem which I mentioned as the issue of bootstrapping.

If you're bootstrapping a project, I doubt you can get a good enough ROI in online advertising for your first 100 sales.

After a year of bootstrapping we're just about to close our first financing round with external investors, so we have some flexiblity here.

Consider how they are bootstrapping off TeleAtlas' mapping data product to basically make that entire industry obsolete, once people are carrying around iPhones that constantly map everything.

Of course, that means if I have any hope of getting financial rewards from bootstrapping my hobby work, I've got to be very organized, which I never have been on past projects.

Bootstrapping computers is "hard" and there's a huge disincentive to breaking compatibility with operating systems' installation/bootstrapping.

The end goal of the project is to increase their chances of bootstrapping a tech company, launching a successful side project or a "lifestyle business" while minimizing risks.

I don't know how big the strongly connected component has to become so that you might call bootstrapping Debian "nearly impossible" but last year there were just two new Debian ports: arm64 and ppc64el.

A similar proposal from a while back was one on "Rapid Bootstrapping of Space Industry," essentially concluding we could have a robust space industry with an industrial output 1,000,000x that of US GDP within about four decades - for as little as 12 metric tons landed on the moon to kickstart the process.

Bootstrapping is a real thing that people do too, even in large, existing markets.