Anyone bootstrapped a successful side business/startup? or quit their day job to bootstrap one?
Want to hear how you did it or are doing it.
230 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 16 Feb
@gmd I don't think we're in the club are we?
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948 sats \ 2 replies \ @gmd 16 Feb
hey 1K MRR counts no? 3rd world country ramen profitable 😛
… ok you’re motivating me (plus my growing distaste for humans at work) to try to make another push
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199 sats \ 1 reply \ @brandonsbytes OP 17 Feb
1k MRR counts in my book. that’s groceries right there…well groceries for now! ðŸ˜
what’s the business?
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220 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 26 Feb
1k mrr gets you through the month with geo arbitrage
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @gd 29 Feb
I've recently come out the back of a 5 year bootstrapped journey. When I say bootstrapped, I mean very bootstrapped. No pot of savings to live on, many months without pay.
If I had to summarise it, your opportunity for success is directly proportional to your belief in yourself to succeed in an environment that you see almost no way forward.
Of course, you still have the usual killers such as product market fit, cash-flow, etc.
Incredibly empowering, incredibly stressful, not for the faint hearted. Loved every day of it.
Preparing to embark on another journey, this one won't be bootstrapped (not purposefully anyway :D).
If that sounds exciting to you— just do it.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @brandonsbytes OP 29 Feb
thank you for the response. what sort of business did you bootstrap? also, congrats on a new adventure, what is that one about?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gd 29 Feb
It started as a B2C navigation app, went through various small and large pivots over it's lifetime (we ended up also launched a B2B SaaS platform)— it was mostly a crowdsourced data angle.
I'm still really trying to formulate the next adventure, I've half started things in the Bitcoin space, but yet uncommitted fully. So still working on the full concept
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