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Common situations for founders who describe themselves as bootstrapped:

- doing consulting work on the side

- living off savings

- having a spouse with income

For bootstrapped companies in the software or SaaS space without employees there should be minimal start-up costs compared to say, opening a restaurant. The real loss is opportunity costs: what salary or equity you could have earned as an alternative.



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