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What stops a bootstrapped business raising money that doesn't stop a non-bootstrapped business? Is it one of those Silicon Valley "perfect play" things?

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Once you take money you have investors. Investors want a return on their money... so now you're a VC backed company.

Bootstrapped is orthogonal to taking money though.

What does bootstrapped mean? I thought it meant self-funded

I thought it meant "got from concept to ramen profitability" but I could be misusing the term so please let me know if I am. :)

It means "got from concept to ramen profitability on your own money" :).

No it's not

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping

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