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Around here, bootstrapped companies with a successful, but not world-shattering, income stream and business model are referred to--sometimes pejoratively, somet
by eropple 9y ago
Around 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.