I started foundationless, went to unwired foundation, went to wired small cell for brood boxes and regular foundation for honey supers. Now I use a few frames of wired small cell in brood boxes to get swarms/splits started followed by frames with starter strips and the honey supers have frames with starter strips only. 75% of the frames in all my brood boxes and honey supers are foundationless started from a starter strip of some sort of foundation.