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[3] One VC who read this essay wrote:

"We try to avoid companies that got bootstrapped with consulting. It creates very bad behaviors/instincts that are hard to erase from a company’s culture."

What are those?

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I found this comment pretty odd. We HAVE to bootstrap/do consulting just to GET STARTED already! Doing consulting gigs requires us to stay current and in the loop and helps us learn to deal with customers. Staying in the corporate world didn't grant the flexibility we needed. But, yes, client work can be very distracting and takes up a lot of time. But hey, we have to SURVIVE.

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