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6 Bootstrapping lessons from a 20-year veteran business owner
- jimnotgym 9y agoAm I alone in feeling nauseated every time I hear the term 'bootstrapping' for starting a business? 1) Bootstrapping has other meanings in engineering and cs already 2) Its so vague as to what they mean, are they just starting a business, or (as it seems more often than not) starting a business using only their own capital, with a plan that they will grow before seeking investment? Any meaning that could be attached to this term would be better conveyed, in a similar number of characters, by speaking plain English. Enough with the meaningless jargon. yuk
- whatnotests 9y agoSome advice like this from the real world would do well to penetrate the virtual world.