Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned

Re:Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned by sologoub on Thursday September 05, 2013 @02:53PM (#6336074)

I think the author is assuming that the readers know exactly what happened in 2008. The crisis is referred to implicitly here: "Markets that were closing 20 referred deals per year in 2006 turned into 1 or 2 closed deals by 2009."

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Re:Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned by zach on Thursday September 05, 2013 @02:55PM (#6336092)

Oh whoops, he does say "as the housing market collapsed" there. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess I skipped a line because the text was all the same color.

It does seem like it wasn't as bad for them, seemingly because this was in a non-bootstrapped phase. So clearly, that's a classic example of when having investors gives your company much-needed shock absorbers.

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Re:Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned by wyclif on Friday September 06, 2013 @02:27AM (#6338993)

I guess I skipped a line because the text was all the same color

I see what you did there. My fave HN comments are the HN-referential ones.

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