Re:What Ended Indie
by Ensorceled on Sunday March 14, 2021 @11:48AM
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Yes, but the author is using "bootstrapped" in the past tense. i.e. a founder who was bootstrapped but might be willing to take money that didn't have a ton of strings and a set of "okay, now roll the dice on rocket growth with a do or die deadline" marching orders attached.
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> "okay, now roll the dice on rocket growth with a do or die deadline"
From what I've seen this this is not the attitude most boostrappers have.
Sure, sometimes you have bootstrapped companies that turn into VC-backed hypergrowth companies but there seems to be a shift away from "grow or die" for bootstrapped companies taking funding.
that's pretty much what the comment above is saying. Bootstrapped founders may take money, if they aren't told "you need rocket growth now"