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Ido Shamun

Bootstrap has become very popular lately, I love it. Very hard to make it without funding though

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Dustin King

Theoretically the day job is your funding. Or some people get their customers to fund development, either with preorders or just getting a big customer to give you money. I'm not sure how the latter works, but apparently Binomial got Netflix to pay for the development of their texture compression middleware.

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Ido Shamun

You need a very nice order or personal funding for HR 😋

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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