All law firms are bootstrapped and always have been, as are almost all small accounting firms. Many authors bootstrap: either they write their works while stil

All law firms are bootstrapped and always have been, as are almost all small accounting firms. Many authors bootstrap: either they write their works while still employed, or they quit and hope to make enough from their writing to do it full-time. (Off the top of my head: John Grisham, Terry Brooks, and Orson Scott Card began writing while still employed.) A lot of food trucks were funded via bootstrapping. Many independent films are self-financed by the filmmaker. Further note: at LA Demo Day last week, fully one-third of the startups were bootstrapped by lawyer-founders, most of whom were the non-technical founders. So yeah, this article is just some FUD that tries to place programmers on some sort of exalted pedastal without realizing that they're just doing what people have been doing in other professions for decades.