Now, I rarely hear anything about bootstrapping, as if getting funding won the day, and now bootstrapping is laughed at.
This is a filter-bubble sort of problem. If you get your news from TechCrunch/etc, yes, that makes a lot of sense; TechCrunch long-ago decided that bootstrapped businesses do not maximize page views. If you hang out in the bootstrapping world, it is a very exciting time to be alive.
Very exciting indeed. Systems and scale that used to cost me $500 / month per unit six years ago, now cost me $50 to achieve the same thing. And the quality of the software available for free now, versus ten years ago, is beyond astounding.
Most start-ups simply no longer need large amounts of capital to get rolling. This gap will become even more dramatic in the next five years - I'm looking forward to it.
This is a filter-bubble sort of problem. If you get your news from TechCrunch/etc, yes, that makes a lot of sense; TechCrunch long-ago decided that bootstrapped businesses do not maximize page views. If you hang out in the bootstrapping world, it is a very exciting time to be alive.