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I didn’t say no route to get investor money back - but some things require a large capital investment to get started. Are you suggesting everything worth doing can be bootstrapped?

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The fusion example is extreme. That sort of thing needs government funding.

But say you want to make a new gadget, yeah you would find it hard to bootstrap unless you are already a multimillion dollar company.

Even gadgets can be bootstrapped, I have several toys I could productize tomorrow that cost me very little to prototype.

Sure I’m bootstrapping a small toy now. But to suggest that every single business idea worth building right now can be bootstrapped - I don’t see it.

Why not ? Boostrapping + Kickstarter for instance is a well trodden path at this point.

I didn’t consider kickstarter. Good point.

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