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		soneca on Nov 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After raising $125M at my last company, I’m bootst... I thought bootstrapping meant only investing in your company with the company's revenue. If you have $10MM you are self-funded, not bootstrapped (sure, an initial self funding is always necessary, but it is easy to differentiate 10k and is 10MM).

s73v3r on Nov 13, 2015 [–]

Initial money for stuff has to come from somewhere, and usually it's not the first customer.

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