Hi Jared and Trevor,<p>I&#x27;m a co-founder at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.missiveapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.missiveapp.com</a>, a collaborative email client (Slack meets Gmail).  We&#x27;ve launched our open beta last January and are actively recruiting beta users.<p>We&#x27;re a fully bootstrapped team of 4 working from Quebec city, Canada. We were able to bootstrap Missive with the $ we rake in from another project we launched three years ago called ConferenceBadge.com [1].<p>My question is, do you think it&#x27;s a mistake to run two businesses in parallel?<p>Right now 85% of our time is invested in Missive even though it&#x27;s bringing $0 in revenue.<p>Our philosophy is that if we were to look for funding, we would have to invest at least 15% of our time on fundraising and investor relationships.<p>We also believe that looking for investment before market fit is a recipe for disaster (need not to forget that we are not from&#x2F;in the valley).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@plehoux&#x2F;successfully-bootstrapped-a-product-then-what-b4483276fd14" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@plehoux&#x2F;successfully-bootstrapped-a-prod...</a>).<p>[2] What are chat conversations doing in an email client? Here are few examples of cool possibilities they enable:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VcRQhGfT620" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VcRQhGfT620</a>