What Bootstrapping Really Means
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Start with what you have, serve with integrity, learn from the market and grow from evidence.
Design low-cost experiments that test real business assumptions.; Use available resources creatively, including skills, relationships, community support, existing platforms, shared spaces and borrowed assets.; Create a minimum sellable offer that solves a specific problem for a specific customer.; Secure early customers or commitments through ethical pre-sales, pilots, partnerships, waitlists, deposits, letters of intent or other evidence of demand.; Measure learning from action using simple metrics, field notes, customer feedback, cash movement and behaviour evidence.; Decide whether to persevere, improve or stop based on evidence rather than ego, fear or hype.
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