Re: "why don't you hire someone to do X" comments for Bountycaster, in my opinion:

- being resource constrained with 2 people forces us to work on the highest priority items. Easy to fall into having people work on random stuff just because you can

- hiring more people creates more work too (recruiting, managing, etc)

- we're bootstrapped, hiring people requires more funding. This is also more work and changes dynamics (fundraising, managing investors, etc)

- we want our team size / burn to be in line with the market opportunity right now and we don't feel it's justified yet to hire more

- one of the highest ROI things a founder can be doing early on is being constantly in touch with users, not something I want to be delegating away at our stage

Co-founder @bountycaster (bountycaster.xyz). Co-producer @ethereumfilm. Previously co-founder of Scalar Capital and product at Coinbase

Exactly, the moment you hire beyond your founding group you add HR, management, and additional fundraising to your task list each day. That's a huge drag on your productivity, especially at the early stages. You need to be generating enough profit to absorb that, let alone the risk of it being a bad hire, which can destroy the company this early in its lifecycle. Keep truckin Linda. 💛