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Re:Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup by nostrademons on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:04PM (#18536326)
"Bootstrapping" usually refers to funding the company (in the seed stage) without external investment, whether through pre-selling to customers, relying on founders' savings, doing consulting, etc. I think the term you're looking for is "profitable".
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Re:Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup by derefr on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:24PM (#18536478)
Not quite, since a "profitable" investor-backed company is still usually pushed by those investors to seek further investment, whether the company needs it to continue growing or not. (It just needs it to grow to the level that an investor would care about.)

The concept here is closer to "firing your investors" or "buying back your equity", but they haven't necessarily done that yet.

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Re:Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup by nostrademons on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:40PM (#18536606)
If you've got board control after the Series A and are profitable, they have zero leverage over your future decisions.
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