7 hard lessons learned over 4 years of bootstrapping my startup to $2mn in revenue

by Karthik Sridharan

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Thanks for this thread, it was a great reminder to stay focused on now and that it’s okay to do things that don’t scale.

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Cool thread, man.

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  Thank you! :)
  
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Nice thread. Point 3 is definitely the hardest but most important one when it comes to boostrapped startups, imho.

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  For sure, it is tough :).
  
  However, I have found that learning across a variety of functions has given a lot of depth to my general decision making because I am able to understand the possible consequences of my actions much better.
  
  So, absolutely encourage anyone (maybe even funded startup founders) to learn execution-based things across a variety of functions.
  
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