Bootstrapping a Company that Can’t Fail

One of my earliest memories is of me being at my childhood home, in my garage, pretending to be a shop owner. I’d gather a bunch of rocks or some old plastic toys and set up them and pretend to sell them to others. As strange as that sounds I really enjoyed it.

There was something about the idea of buying an item for a certain price and then selling it a bit higher that intrigued me. Even today I still get excited when I think about it. After having retired at 38 years old due to my frugalistic ways I knew that I wanted to start a business, which one I wasn’t sure of at first. I am a software developer by trade so I figured that might make sense. The problem with that its that it’s a pretty involved business.

So I decided to cast that aside and instead focus on what I really love, saving money! This isn’t the first business I’ve started but for the most part I’ve just been a worker bee. I had good reason to actually. I was earning more than many small businesses make as a software contractor heading out to whatever company would pay the highest dollar.

After discovering the FIRE movement though I realized that I could actually fulfill my bigger dream and not have to work anymore. I had to reduce my expenses greatly but I was at that point where it just wasn’t necessary. I could easily earn more than enough passive income to…