bootstrap
Unaided startup method
Bootstrap originally meant the loop at the back of a boot used to pull it on.
The phrase pull yourself up by your bootstraps described an impossible feat—lifting yourself off the ground by tugging your own boots—making it useful for ironic commentary on self-reliance rhetoric.
In computing, to bootstrap or boot is to start up a system using a small program that loads larger programs.
More broadly, bootstrapping means starting something with minimal resources: She bootstrapped the company from her garage.
The adjective describes self-starting processes or self-funded ventures: a bootstrap startup.
Repeated random selection method
- confidence intervalEstimated bounds for population parameter
- Monte CarloProbability estimation through randomness
- permutationArrangement in specific order
- jackknifeFolding pocket blade
estimator · variance · simulation · sample size · replacement · iteration · empirical · nonparametric
Raise your body upward
- self-madeSuccessful through own efforts
- self-relianceDepending on oneself alone
- gritDetermination or abrasive particles
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
determination · empowerment · resourcefulness · hustle · tenacity · initiative · self-starter · hard work
Initial startup program
- BIOSBoot-up initialization firmware
- UEFIFirmware interface for booting
- kernelSeed or essential core
- initializationPreparing system for operation
startup · POST · systemd · bootable · firmware · recovery mode · init · power-on
Curve closing on itself
Paid with own resources
- seed moneyInitial business financing
- sweat equityUnpaid work as investment
- shoestringCord for footwear
- lean startupIterative, hypothesis-driven business approach
organic growth · reinvestment · grassroots · scrappy · resourceful · crowdfunding · profitable · side hustle
resampling
Repeated random selection method
- confidence intervalEstimated bounds for population parameter
- Monte CarloProbability estimation through randomness
- permutationArrangement in specific order
jackknife · estimator · variance · simulation · sample size · replacement · iteration · empirical · nonparametric · random sampling
pull yourself up
Raise your body upward
- self-madeSuccessful through own efforts
- self-relianceDepending on oneself alone
- gritDetermination or abrasive particles
perseverance · determination · empowerment · resourcefulness · hustle · tenacity · initiative · self-starter · hard work · ambition
bootloader
Initial startup program
initialization · startup · POST · systemd · bootable · firmware · recovery mode · init · power-on
loop
Curve closing on itself
self-funded
Paid with own resources
- seed moneyInitial business financing
- sweat equityUnpaid work as investment
- shoestringCord for footwear
lean startup · organic growth · reinvestment · grassroots · scrappy · resourceful · crowdfunding · profitable · side hustle · moonlighting
- entrepreneurshipentrepreneur, startup, founder, co-founder, cofounder
- setupsetting up, installation, assembling, installing, initialization
- success storiesrags to riches, success story, underdog story, comeback story, zero to hero
- statisticsmean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation
- startup jargonMVP, fail fast, scaling, unicorn, disrupt
- startup termsbusiness plan, funding, investors, pitch deck, MVP
bootstrapSeries A
First major funding round
crowdfunded · subsidized · debt-financed · funded · bankrolled
- pull oneself up by one's bootstrapsAchieve success independently
- lift oneself up by one's bootstrapsSucceed through unaided effort
- pulling oneself up by one's bootstrapsRising through personal effort alone
- bootstrap mentalityFaith in unassisted success
- pull oneself up by one's own bootstrapsAchieve success unaided
- pulled oneself up by one's bootstrapsAchieved success independently