"Vietnam [has] huge opportunities to leverage its robust tech talents and tech-savvy communities to bootstrap numerous startup projects". As "Blockchain Revolution" authors Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott said in an interview with McKinsey & Company, blockchain can also be used to better document land titles around the world, providing a layer of legal protection for rural farmers.
Her background in international law and diplomacy, including serving as a legal clerk for the U.N., led her to found The Bootstrap Project, a non-profit organization that works with entrepreneurs in the developing world.
Ghatan, also based in L.A., bootstrapped the project to get it to launch, and the app performs as it claims.
They're now a team of five, largely bootstrapping their project to life.
She bootstrapped the project through a beta, and has now raised a total of $1.3 million from investors like Great Oaks Venture Capital, Joanne Wilson, Gotham Gal Ventures and Andrew Goszhardt , Jr
Locca said it has been bootstrapping the project up to now — and is hoping to raise €75,000 via Indiegogo — although it has also previously taken in an angel investment of €150,000.
They had mostly bootstrapped the project over the last year-and-a-half, taking a small bit of funding (about $120,000) through a German/EU stipend program called "EXIST Gründerstipendium".
TIN is a project bootstrapped by a self-described 'media nut' / investor called Frank Cioffi, who spent decades working in such media as radio and television and turned to the internet after many years of consulting and trading stocks.
This is likely due in part to the company being homegrown, bootstrapped, and a side project for much of its life.
He's bootstrapped the project and it's currently seeing a few dozen tourists per day.
Knight, who previously co-founded family social network Kindo (acquired by MyHeritage) and is founder of Tech4Africa, started bootstrapping the project as far back as 2009, while renting a single desk in White Bear Yard, the co-working space of London VC Passion Capital.
