Imagine the results if everyone with an idea for a new business today simply stopped waiting for enough money to get going or interest from an outside investor and just started to build their...
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Before I helped launch BootStrapMe.com in June 2006, I edited another blog called simply The Upstart Entrepreneur. The premise was simple. Instead of writing long complicated business plans, the blog...
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Cordia Harrington, president and CEO of the Tennessee Bun Company now heads a company that produces 60,000 buns an hour for clients like McDonald's, Chili's and Pepperidge Farms. But...
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Wisconsin business Titan Ken Hendricks who rose from high school drop out to head a construction supply empire died earlier today from injuries sustained in an accident at his home. See this report...
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More big news from bootstrap success story Spirit DSP via Realtime Community: SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of voice and video software engines, announced today that Huawei...
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Kevin Koym at Exponential Entrepreneur suggests that bootstrapping through leveraging social capital may be a great remedy for coming recession. While I'm not sure I share Kevin's enthusiasm...
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Entrepreneur Peter Thum developed Ethos Water from a bootstrapped business launched in 2002 to a $7.7 million business sold to Starbucks in 2005. The company, created on the premise of donating a...
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Spirit DSP is a bootstrap company now employing 140 and with an established global brand. Read this news release at Real Time Community about the company's latest accomplishments: Fall VON Show,...
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A new film by the granddaughter of the man behind Mickey Mouse tells the story of a bootstrapping startup that launched a revolution. "In a relatively short period of time, Pixar went from a...
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Greg Gianforte, president of RightNow Technologies, a bootstrapped information technology firm in Bozeman, Montana, is at it again. In 1997, Gianforte began bootstrapping a company that by 2002 was...
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Received an e-mail last week from Bijoy Goswami at the BootStrapper's Network about the Austin Open4Business Conference October 10th at the Wyndham Garden Hotel. Those in the Austin area around...
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Bootstrapping your computer application or for that matter other services on the Internet may soon be less about building your own website then about setting up shop within inexpensive high traffic...
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There's a new sheriff in town. After many weeks of frustration, sleep deprivation and other bootstrapping pleasures I have finally given my creation life. (Boy, there's a diverse collection...
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Musicians in New York State will take the first of three free online courses this week designed to help them bootstrap a music career. The courses are the third in a series from the Alliance of New...
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I'm very excited this morning and wanted to break some of the silence on a new bootstrap venture I've only hinted at in recent posts. Back in July, I announced the launch of the tentatively...
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As a companion to the aforementioned article in U.S. News & World Report on bootstrapping principles, senior writer James Pethokoukis did an e-mail interview with DaVinci Institute futurist and...
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Ashish Kumar, co-founder of India-based Tekriti Software, has this to say about the value of bootstrapping on the Fast Company Weblog. While he admits it may not work for every business, Kumar...
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Well, maybe if this post by Jeff O'Brien has any validity. Especially if the cost of startup for technology companies stays low. Consider that Romanian software and web design entrepreneur...
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Think a bootstrap company can't grab national headlines and adopt a socially conscious philosophy right from the start? You'd be wrong! Bootstrap entrepreneur Shelli Styles has done just that...
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Hi, and hope everyone had a Happy Easter/passover holiday. Despite the slight delay in posting over the last week, we're back with a vengeance and will be interrupting our review of bootstrapping...
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The blog for bootstrap entrepreneurs has a new home on the Internet's most visible social community and we want you to be a part of it! Bootstrapme.com's MySpace site officially went live...
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