TerraCycle taught me extreme forms of bootstrapping, and many of the innovations for which we are known were responses to failures of initial attempts in packaging, marketing, product development and even investor pitches.— TreeHugger
Business plan competitions and good old-fashioned bootstrapping, also become much more attractive, as are asking family and friends.— Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism
The thing to do is to evaluate the lack of speed of execution because you're bootstrapping, and see if it's going to limit the long term potential of the business.— socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News
Dialectical bootstrapping is a method by which an individual mind averages its 'own conflicting opinions, thus simulating the "wisdom of the crowd."
Text-based formats have big wins in readability, maintainability, and bootstrapping (you don't need to create special tools to read and write them).— Stevey's Blog Rants

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