ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers the development of the financial situation of the company from around 1983 till 1986. She discusses the influence of the self-conception of Fiberline on the financing behavior of the company. The author included this because she sees it as an example of how the company's self-conception influenced its growth. She elaborates on Fiberline's financing efforts by connecting it to the discussion of bootstrapping in the literature on entrepreneurial financing. The author shows that the basic narrative of Fiberline was resistant to change and that meaning continued to be drawn from it many years after the founding of the company. She argues that Henrik Thorning was willing to indebt the company and that he didn't seem to be particularly burdened by uncertainty: he could continue to draw sense from the basic narrative, thereby reducing the uncertainty he might otherwise have felt in situations characterized by risk.
