The Ultimate Guide on Bootstrapping: How to Fund Your Startup Using Customers

What is a Bootstrapping

While not the same thing, Bootstrapping and Lean Startups are quite complementary. Both cover techniques for building low-burn startups by eliminating waste by maximizing existing resources first before expending effort on acquiring new or external resources.

All Bootstrapping Articles

This is a complete list of articles I have written on bootstrapping.

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Achieving Flow in a Startup
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Scaling Flow in a Startup
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The Power of a Good Strategy
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How to Find an Idea Whose Time Has Come
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The Simple Shapes of Startups
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The 10x Product Launch
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The Entrepreneur with a Thousand Faces
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The Different Worldviews of a Startup
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Vitamins Don't Have a Triggering Event
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Start With Mindset
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All Those Who Wander Are Not Lost
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Position Against Your True Competition to Win the Customer
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How to Deliver an Elevator Pitch That Gets Anyone to Ask for More
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Raise Your Startup's Odds of Success By Up to 8x
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Start with Premium Before Freemium
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The Bootstrapping Startup Operating System
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Bootstrapping + Lean Startup = Low-burn Startup
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The True Value of Your Time
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The Customer Factory Manifesto
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A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs
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The Just Start Manifesto
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