> Don't fund with credit cards unless you absolutely have to.
Funding with personal debt should not be considered 'bootstrapping', if only because it's so damn stupid, and should not have a positively-connoted word associated with it.
It's more like buying ownership in your own company with money you don't have.
Would you borrow money to buy stock in someone else's company?
Would you borrow thousands of dollars to gamble in a game that has about a 1/10 chance of winning?
Funding with personal debt should not be considered 'bootstrapping', if only because it's so damn stupid, and should not have a positively-connoted word associated with it.
It's more like buying ownership in your own company with money you don't have.
Would you borrow money to buy stock in someone else's company?
Would you borrow thousands of dollars to gamble in a game that has about a 1/10 chance of winning?