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One thought on “Self-funded firms take all the risk, all the rewards

  1. Great article. From my experience, bootstrapping should be Plan A and raising capital Plan B. Don’t put yourself in a position to have to raise money or you lose all leverage. Just my opinion. Congrats fellow bootstrappers!

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