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Went the opposite way, kept the house (not even making directors guarantee) and bootstrapped the startup between freelance contracts

It’s slower, but the contracts keep you in constant contact with real customers, and it’s lots of small dice rolls until one comes up good, rather than a big one that can’t go bad. Plus the house goes up in the mean time

We’re now scaling up the team and looking at capital so it’s worked well