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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by avn2109 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:23PM (#36898034)
>> "...but this just seems really shortsighted."

This guy made literally (tens of?) millions of dollars in revenue from his software. Sure the gravy train stopped, but man I hope to be shortsighted like that someday.

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by CPLX on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:30PM (#36898131)
> This guy made literally (tens of?) millions of dollars in revenue from his software

While living in Bulgaria

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by bluecrab on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:47AM (#36904380)
And so what? That's still a lot. Who's making that mind of money there? He even started investing in smaller businesses.
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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by CPLX on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:27PM (#36909310)
I think you’re misunderstanding.

That’s a staggering amount of money in this context.

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