shoestring operation
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Nor is DeepSeek a shoestring operation: It’s a spinoff from the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, whose investment in the project is unknown.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2025
Over the years, they turned a shoestring operation into one with 10 full-time employees and a house full of sophisticated computer and video gear.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024
Shameless Hussy Press was a shoestring operation in 1969 when the poet known as Alta began publishing books from her house on a hand-cranked offset printer.
From New York Times • May 17, 2024
The mission was a shoestring operation, sustained by small cash donations.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2023
Bingham had never before sold to an individual company, let alone a shoestring operation on Sheriff Street.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
