Bootstrapping Cofounder Hiring Sales Cycle 
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. Bootstrap was term coined from the computer lingo ‘booting’ which means starting a computer or starting a chain of processes which eventually starts up the operating system. Bootstrap mentality is critical for a startup to succeed, irrespective of whether it has raised funds or not.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2011
Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson.
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