Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more

The reason I think it's great for entrepreneurs to to start bootstrapping is because they just have more practice making money and they get better and better and better at the fundamental skill you need to have ultimately. turn a successful business, which is to make money. Hopefully I don't come off as encouraging everyone to be like me. I'm not saying that at all. What I am saying is this is a way to be. It's an alternative to what you're often hearing in our industry, which is like go big or go home, raise a bunch of money and get huge and unicorn status and the whole thing like

That's a way. Just know though Yeah. Basically almost nobody makes it that way. Like really almost nobody.

really makes it that way. And there's a lot more room to make it. And to build a successful business if you Throw out that outlier. And look at all the other places you can land as a business.

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