Nice article, but I was amused by this: > If it takes too long to turn a profit, as a bootstrapped company you're dead in the water. I love how it's now an as

Nice article, but I was amused by this: > If it takes too long to turn a profit, as a bootstrapped company you're dead in the water. I love how it's now an assumption that VC-funded companies will not be profitable until they're flipped. That's a relatively recent invention, for those that weren't around before the internet bubble.