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Not a very good or well researched article. They left out many popular bootstrapped companies such as Imgur, one of the most popular image sharing services on t
by error54 13y ago
Not a very good or well researched article. They left out many popular bootstrapped companies such as Imgur, one of the most popular image sharing services on the net or the fact that Github has VC money now.
- fookyong 13y agoimgur is a great service, but theirs is not really the kind of example an aspiring bootstrapper can follow. "become the defacto image platform for reddit" makes you an outlier in the bootstrapping world I think. I think it's just much more useful to look at examples where the model is reusable - make B2B software for a specific market, and charge money for it.
- somewhatjustin 13y agoThe article is about "Startups that have bootstrapped their way to profitability", not "startups that are bootstrapping", so Github does belong on the list. But I do agree with your Imgur suggestion, that would've been an excellent addition.