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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bootstrap .
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Examples
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If you factor out the "bootstrapped" companies that were actually funded by their founders through savings or a day job, the remainder either (a) got really lucky, which is hard to do on demand, or (b) began life as consulting companies and gradually transformed themselves into product companies.
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This metadata is 'bootstrapped' automatically, I have done no manual work to create this.
Archive 2003-04-20 David Bigwood 2003
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If you were going to start a company, you "bootstrapped" it.
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"OEMC essentially 'bootstrapped' a $23 million contract on an earlier, $350,000 fraudulently obtained purchase."
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What I don't want to have happen is see this treatment (or any other treatment, for that matter) "bootstrapped" into legitimacy, where doctors say they think it works often enough that they believe it works rather relying on the evidence that it works.
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At the time, Stroud said MD Ranger was being self-funded and "bootstrapped" by its partners, and planned to focus initially on California, Arizona and Nevada (coincidentally states where CHW has a major presence).
San Jose Business News - Local San Jose News | The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 2010
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At the time, Stroud said MD Ranger was being self-funded and "bootstrapped" by its partners, and planned to focus initially on California, Arizona and Nevada (coincidentally states where CHW has a major presence).
San Jose Business News - Local San Jose News | The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 2010
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"OEMC essentially 'bootstrapped' a $23 million contract on an earlier, $350,000 fraudulently obtained purchase."
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At the time, Stroud said MD Ranger was being self-funded and "bootstrapped" by its partners, and planned to focus initially on California, Arizona and Nevada (coincidentally states where CHW has a major presence).
San Jose Business News - Local San Jose News | The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 2010
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At the time, Stroud said MD Ranger was being self-funded and "bootstrapped" by its partners, and planned to focus initially on California, Arizona and Nevada (coincidentally states where CHW has a major presence).
San Jose Business News - Local San Jose News | The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 2010
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