> Many successful companies are bootstrapped. I'm bootstrapping now and I'd generally agree with the statement you quoted. It's expensive and near impossible

> Many successful companies are bootstrapped. I'm bootstrapping now and I'd generally agree with the statement you quoted. It's expensive and near impossible to find cofounders/enough-"bootstrapped"-help to make building a tech company from scratch feasible, never mind go to open market and get enough customers for the business to be worth running. A "small" 250k check would solve almost all of my issues right now.