I think you are mixing up 2 different things: To "bootstrap" - verb - means building a business without borrowing money. See 37signals. http://37signals.com/b

I think you are mixing up 2 different things: To "bootstrap" - verb - means building a business without borrowing money. See 37signals. http://37signals.com/bootstrapped http://37signals.com/bootstrapped vs. Twitter Bootstrap - noun - a frontend web framework that helps speed up building websites and prototypes. http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/