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As a bootstrapped company I understand what you mean, but that doesn't mean companies like that cannot succeed. ie. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Digg, etc.
by charlesju 17y ago
As a bootstrapped company I understand what you mean, but that doesn't mean companies like that cannot succeed. ie. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Digg, etc.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoAccording to Zuckerberg, Facebook already had thousands or hundreds of thousands of users when they took funding, and they were funding growth with ad revenue.
- grinich 17y agoFrom what I've heard, they took funding primarily to build the photos app, which ended up being FB's killer feature over other social networking sites at the time.
- falsestprophet 17y agoOne of Zuckerberg's Harvard friends, Eduardo Saverin, funded the company early on. Eduardo had good luck trading futures to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars profit.