bootstrap

One promising strategy is known as the "bootstrap" approach.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

In science-fiction scenarios of first contact with extraterrestrials, humans usually bootstrap a common language with mathematics, demonstrating that we know the digits of pi and so forth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

SilverSneakers represents just a small slice of that — the costs are not broken out by MedPAC — but it’s significant enough that the bootstrap venture has turned into a big business.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

I think she is deeply wrong to let the tobacco company bootstrap these gas stations onto their suit.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2025

A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

“You should apply if you want to build yourself up while also building a startup society that bootstraps other startup societies,” its website said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Pulling up your bootstraps and spraying some tough on it is important.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025

But in the U.S., the ethos of grinding and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is ubiquitous, both in the country’s beginnings and our current environment of always-on technology and work hours.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

We can’t just pull ourselves up by the bootstraps when we’ve lost everything.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2023

Teachers exhorted us to be like him, to lift ourselves from poverty by our bootstraps.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

"They were larger-than-life figures who bootstrapped their way to multibillion dollar companies, and they were kind of seen as heroes who were like changing the world," Castillo said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

It was founded by Smith, his brother and his father in 2002, and bootstrapped by them until 2012.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

But he’s bootstrapped himself into intelligence and with savvy networking and know-how, he becomes indispensable to the British, volunteering as a major to survey land and negotiate treaties with the Native tribes and French army.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

From Hewlett-Packard to Google, the tales of bootstrapped companies that have turned into giants has inspired generations of entrepreneurs.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

“When we first started during the pandemic, we were entirely bootstrapped and still working other full-time jobs, while doing our best to keep up with the growth of Locale,” Clark said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Their worries — AI systems deceiving their creators, bootstrapping their own code, or launching autonomous cyberattacks — show up in scientific literature.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Just like Donald Trump, also the son of a bootstrapping developer, the Kushner boys talk of visiting building sites as children with their father, Charlie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Putting aside the chutzpah of the bootstrapping, it’s not clear that the court is wrong.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

Culturally, this typically gets framed as alpha-male, gym-rat bluster about bootstrapping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

He had worked as a printer but was now bootstrapping his own print shop on a shoestring, and became entirely self-employed.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon