'Acquiesce': accept something reluctantly but without protest.

The bootstrapped founder acquiesced to the low-ball offer for their start-up – after all, there are only so many tuna sandwiches one can eat.

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'Archetype': a very typical example of a certain person or thing.

The bootstrapped founder spent all of his time on features and not on marketing; the very archetype of the Indie Hacker.

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'Cruft': badly designed, unnecessarily complicated, or unwanted code or software.

It may be better to ship full of cruft rather than to strive for perfection and likely never ship at all...

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'Perfunctory': (of an action) carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort.

The bootstrapped start-up founder’s marketing efforts were perfunctory at best.

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'Malodorous': smelling very unpleasant

When I work around the clock on my start-up, in the same clothes - like some sort of modern-day Howard Hughes; there is a great risk of becoming Malodorous.

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'Efficacy': the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

When I spend all of my time building new start-up features instead of practicing the dark arts of marketing it results in big ideas with lower efficacy.

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Tenets: a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy.

By regularly reviewing basic tenets of bootstrapping, I am less likely to become the Bootstrapped Hamster: repeating mistakes.

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Tacit: understood or implied without being stated.

That I'd prefer to be managing a profitable, purpose led start-up was tacit knowedge.

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