{"id":37820,"date":"2026-09-14T23:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/14\/self-deprivation-isnt-a-business-model-startup-founder-urges-entrepreneurs-to-pay-themselves-bootstrapped-or-funded-livemint\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:47:52","slug":"self-deprivation-isnt-a-business-model-startup-founder-urges-entrepreneurs-to-pay-themselves-bootstrapped-or-funded-livemint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/14\/self-deprivation-isnt-a-business-model-startup-founder-urges-entrepreneurs-to-pay-themselves-bootstrapped-or-funded-livemint\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Self-deprivation isn&#039;t a business model\u2019: Startup founder urges entrepreneurs to pay themselves, bootstrapped or funded &#8211; Livemint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.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?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Self-deprivation isn&#8217;t a business model\u2019: Startup founder urges entrepreneurs to pay themselves, bootstrapped or funded<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Livemint<\/font><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.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?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Self-deprivation isn&#8217;t a business model\u2019: Startup founder urges entrepreneurs to pay themselves, bootstrapped or funded&nbsp;&nbsp;Livemintsource<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}