From Longman Business Dictionarybootstrappingboot‧strap‧ping /ˈbuːtˌstræpɪŋ/ noun [uncountable]1the process of setting up a business, using very little money and a lot of hard workHe has some great advice for people bootstrapping their own business.2COMPUTING the process of using a simple program in order to make a much more complicated system (such as an operating system) start working
