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woj ツ
@woj.eth
btw you sound 10x cooler if you call your business self funded instead of bootstrapped
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@vrypan.eth
Not for me. "Bootstrapping" holds a a lot of cultural context in tech. It's a term a computer engineer would use (because he's already using it in a tech context, for compilers for example) to describe their business. Here is an other example: http://scripting.com/davenet/2000/11/30/bootstrapping.html From my pov, "self-funded" sounds like an accounting term :-)
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woj ツ
@woj.eth
ok this is a really cool context, i didn’t even know that thanks 🫡
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Rafi
@rafi
> When you turn on a computer it bootstraps, or "boots." First it loads the most ancient bit of code, probably written in the 1970s. It runs a program written in the 80s, which in turn launches a program written in the 90s. This article 🤌🏼
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Just Build
@justbuild
Mmmmm, going to have to respectfully disagree. I think that to a general audience especially self funded has a much stronger sense of independence and personal responsibility. Bootstrapping doesn't really mean anything to people and has the risk of getting the dreaded response of "what's that?" which means that there is a significant number of people that hear it, are also confused and don't tell you. Even in general business you want to avoid jargon when possible to focus on fidelity and effective story telling to "solve the problem" of communicating who you are as a business and person. That all being said, agree with you that a fellow start up or tech person will "get it" way more. ✌️ 😁
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Rafi
@rafi
Had similar thought. Self-funding smells like free floating money while bootstraping like tireless work without much money
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