[shgnio]

Yeah you're right, I should have clarified better what I mean.

My point was that as a bootstrapper it's important to generate revenue as soon as possible, doesn't matter if you build a small business to support yourself or a plan to grow into a huge company. You don't have the luxury of taking your time and planning to come up with a monetization strategy in the future. Therefore you need to do what works and iterate quickly.

[mindcrime]

Yeah, totally. The only thing I'd add to that, is that in the scenario where you continue to work a day job while you work on the bootstrapped company as a "side project", you can buy yourself a pretty long runway. Of course, that's at the expense of moving more slowly in general. So there's always a balance to be struck.