Definition of "bootstrapped" [bootstrapped]

• Simple past tense and past participle of bootstrap. (verb)

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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."
• "This metadata is 'bootstrapped' automatically, I have done no manual work to create this."
• "If you were going to start a company, you "bootstrapped" it."