Founders

Who's bootstrapping their business?

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If so, why are you bootstrapping?
Would you ever raise?

Building /stokefire a mobile strategy game onchain. Run and own poolfish.xyz a calculator for LP providers. Built Potion solo and sold for $300k.

Benny is Tenacious Toys selling liquid dinosaurs at tenacioustoys.com ⭐️ Pay with any crypto!

Haha. thats one reason to boostrap I guess. 😅

Not a clue how to raise capital. So i guess I’ve been bootstrapping for 19 years 😂

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

https://linktr.ee/joanwestenberg

Thanks!

There are pros to both of course but I like the bootstrapped way!

Are you bootstrapping something?

Always here for the fellow bootstrappers. 

VC is a cancer. 

2000 $degen

🕯️They/them. Scaled cos from 0-$300k in arr, 7-35 employees, 0-100k users. Now I make candles that give people love, joy, and delight at humankind.place

Meeeee 👋

Bootstrapping because I have the privilege of doing so and want to retain all of my equity 😊

I will raise if I have to go into retail, which is common with CPG products.

Former financial advisor.  Teaching crypto to financial professionals for 4 years.  Multi-family office for crypto wealthy


My business - Interaxis - is helping teach financial professionals about crypto so they can help their clients, and prepare their own practice.

Step 1 for them is learning digital assets.  Step 2 -12 will be understanding how custody, transparency, etc impact their business

Spire is on-chain lore. Realm is our first partner; each partner gets their own spire, which is sort of a storytelling blockchain.

Everything minted (writing, artwork, etc) is done via competitions, the winners receiving the NFTs. So basically like block rewards. 

We’ve got more partners launching in coming weeks!

Very cool. What does aspire do?

You work with Realm!? I was early in that community. 

500 $degen

We’re bootstrapping at Spire. Had crypto profits - no need to raise, didn’t need much either. Felt others wouldn’t get what we’re up to anyway until it was built.

Open to raising if needed, but not obsessed with scaling. We’ve got a nice B2B model we want to focus on.

Onchain all day |
Invest and advise via https://ninetales.co | Writing about the future of the internet @

https://paragraph.xyz/@in-transit

built a vSaaS before investors thought it was cool (too niche), so we did it on our own

Crypto payments for small businesses. Contributing to the mainstream use of crypto. @gogh
ongogh.com /shop-la

It uses the web3 social graph and attestations to verify sellers and provide needed context for buyers to trust who they’re buying from. Escrow contracts will be coming soon to prevent scams and stolen funds

Slow and steady wins the race!

Didn't remember that you were in ecommerce.
How does the crypto part play a role in it?

Bootstrapping to get to an investable spot, and definitely down to raise. But ideally participate in an accelerator.

Distributed data governance pioneer - building datastake.io

yeah, would be nice to fundraise when it's easy.

Bootstrapped, for clients provide better feedback than investors
I will raise when traction is so obvious I don't have to explain much
I'm tired of explaining 😅


Founder Alankrit Capital | Follow: /tickertalk /primitives 


Thank you!

Trying to make it better every day.