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If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. You may have read my Bootstrapping to an Exit piece, where I highlighted the importance of facilitating capital-efficient startups and smaller exits, including with small chunks of investment. In working through the current landscape of our industry, a few trends become evident: A large percentage of VCs are chasing UnicornsToo much money chasing too few deals capable of delivering hyper growth bids up valuationsMany Death by Overfunding tragedies have emergedEntrepreneurs are reacting, as Erin Griffith points out in her NY Times article: More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost My observation, having covered Bootstrapping for a dozen plus years, is that the industry doesn't fully understand Bootstrapping. No, Bootstrapping and Venture Capital are NOT necessarily mutually exclusive. The savviest and most