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Bootstrapping vs. Raising Money

Spencer Fry

As a startup in 2017, having limited resources can in and of itself sink your entire ship. When I first started building Coach, I invested $30k of my own money to get a prototype working and acquire our first half dozen customers, but I (and the contract developer who I was working with) were spread too thin.