Am I alone in feeling nauseated every time I hear the term 'bootstrapping' for starting a business?<p>1) Bootstrapping has other meanings in engineering and cs already<p>2) Its so vague as to what they mean, are they just starting a business, or (as it seems more often than not) starting a business using only their own capital, with a plan that they will grow before seeking investment?<p>Any meaning that could be attached to this term would be better conveyed, in a similar number of characters, by speaking plain English. Enough with the meaningless jargon. yuk