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> But more than all, start-up world, fuck you for making me one of you. There are plenty of bootstrapped startups quietly humming along, working normal hours,
by TAForObvReasons 8y ago
> But more than all, start-up world, fuck you for making me one of you.
There are plenty of bootstrapped startups quietly humming along, working normal hours, where the employees enjoy life and family time without engaging in the culture. You don't hear about them as much.
- eropple 8y agoAround here, bootstrapped companies with a successful, but not world-shattering, income stream and business model are referred to--sometimes pejoratively, sometimes not--as "lifestyle businesses." I'm not aware of many aside from Atlassian who, in the purely-tech software-y space, really would have the kind of income streams to suggest HN's definition of "startup". And those kinds of business are much more my thing, so I am not throwing shade, but there is a difference.