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Discussion on: Founder vs Employee

 
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Dustin King

HR (Human Resources?) doesn't need to be involved. The idea of bootstrapping is to have some existing income stream and use that to pay the bills until the product can do that on its own. This could be having a day job and working on the product on nights and weekends, or it could be doing freelancing and taking a few weeks off to develop the product, like 37signals did when they created Basecamp.

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Ido Shamun

You can't scale a product to a full business without hiring more people to help you grow your business. It takes a lot of time to have a revenue high enough to hire. On the contrary funding can boost your business and reduce the time, of course it has its cost