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Wow! Maybe just me, hearing about a company bootstrapping to success instead of raising large rounds of financing is all the more inspiring.

• dave_sullivan 10y ago
  80% of the inc 500, the fastest growing private companies, haven't raised outside capital.
  • thenaturalist 10y ago
    Do you have a source for that?
    • dave_sullivan 10y ago
      Some inc article I saw on HN with Sam Altman talking about how important startups are to the economy, couldn't find exact one.
      • gexla 10y ago
        Here is a link to the HN discussion to the article I assume you are thinking about. The wording was a bit different, which may have been why you didn't find it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12625642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12625642
        • dave_sullivan 10y ago
          That's the one. The exact quote: > Only twenty per cent of the Inc. 500, the five hundred fastest-growing private companies, raised outside funding.