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v. Simple past tense and past participle of bootstrap.

"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."

bootstrapped    bootstrapping    bootstraps   

help    assist    aid    strap   

cold boot    booting    reboot   

pull oneself up by one's bootstraps   

front-end    pig iron    one-port    crawler-mounted    baseband