bootstrapping-vs-raising SKILL.md skillA
bootstrapping-vs-raising from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/bootstrapping-vs-raising@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
bootstrapping-vs-raising/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 3,043 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: a founder is deciding whether to raise venture money or self-fund; 'should we raise?', weighing dilution vs speed, choosing a funding path; VC fit vs bootstrap/SMB. Do NOT activate when: the decision is already made and the task is executing a specific raise (use fundraising materials instead). More: deciqai.com/s/bootstrapping-vs-raising.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Bootstrapping vs Raising — Choose the Fuel to Match the Fire ## Overview Raising venture capital is not a milestone; it's a **choice that commits you to a specific outcome** — a large, fast, high-multiple exit — because that's the only outcome that pays back the model. Bootstrapping keeps control and optionality but caps speed to what cash flow allows. The right answer depends on the business's true ceiling and the founder's goals, not on what's fashionable. ## The Process 1. **Test venture-scale honestly** — is there a plausible path to a very large market and outsized return? *Gate: no venture-scale outcome = VC is the wrong fuel; raising forces growth the business can't sustain.* 2. **Clarify the founder's goal** — control and durable cash flow, or a big swing at a large exit? These point to different paths. 3. **Check if the opportunity is speed-sensitive** — winner-take-most / land-grab markets reward capital; slow-compounding niches don't. 4. **Price the cost of capital** — dilution + board + the growth-at-all-costs treadmill vs the slowness and personal risk of bootstrapping. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/bootstrapping-vs-raising@sha256:cb173c209796a6b5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 3,043 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 3,043 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 3,043 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 3,043 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 3,043 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3043 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vmikg4liswtsh6ra GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/bootstrapping-vs-raising GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cb173c209796a6b576456d250041a9f3800d628f69e80b40c87c452b502c686a
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