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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business.