I chuckled when I read the bit about calling Superpath a lifestyle business to mask insecurity about not having raised money. Not raising money is something to be celebrated, not something to try to hide.<p>Nine years ago, today, my co-founder and I started Aha!, and we recently announced that we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. We did that without raising any money by focused on building exactly what customers want, and doing it as efficiently as we possibly could. Admittedly we were fortunate to have great product-market fit from the very beginning. But bootstrapping is one of the things that made us successful: we were maniacally focussed on what customers needed, rather than what story would be most effective at raising money. You might think that those are the same thing, but in my experience they are not.<p>We are celebrating bootstrapping at <a href="https://www.bootstrap.company/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bootstrap.company/</a>.