It's not about time... in fact having less time helped me a lot to bootstrap my company, we have a few signups right now. And yes, this sounds 37signalsish. I'

It's not about time... in fact having less time helped me a lot to bootstrap my company, we have a few signups right now. And yes, this sounds 37signalsish. I'd say it's more important to have co-founders that like the bootstraping idea too than having more time. My startup, btw, is something like Punchd but not requiring everyone to have an iPhone, I built the web application (Python, Django... I even have some tests (integration and unit tests)), a mobile web app (JQuery UI), an iPhone app, web admin dashboard (stats, pretty graphs), etc etc. All this in like 4 months of bootstraping, putting 1-3 hr a day (sometimes a lot more) and a saturday or sunday here and then. Seriously I think we have most of the features that Punchd or Five Star Card have and all this with my own money we own 100% of the company. By far we're not profitable, but as soon as one client starts paying (next month, crossing fingers)... boom profit. I don't know, maybe we have a very good work ethic, but we do fuck around a lot! (Hacker News, parties yay!)