And with the launch of Bootstrap Design as what we hope will be the first of a growing number of spin-offs from this site, perhaps it would be a good time to discuss why bootstrap entrepreneurs would...
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Our Bootstrapper's Club is now more than sixty members strong and a great place to network with fellow readers of this blog and fellow entrepreneurs. The club is hosted by the MyBlogLog community...
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We interrupt this regularly scheduled post series to bring you this important update: Look, Ma'! I'm bloggin' at Blogtronix. I've been given the opportunity to test drive this...
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With a new majority taking control not only in Washington, but here in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as well, some business leaders might see big changes ahead. But not small business...
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A new bootstrap business network (as of last month) offers resources particularly for European entrepreneurs in the information technology field. According to the site's welcome page, the network...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Of course, a site allowing online download of independent music is nothing new and dates back to mp3.com and other sites, but what makes n10ah different is the Human...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST returning to the drawing board, I decided to create an online music network in the broadest possible sense using existing free online platforms by combining blogs,...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST The launch did garner a limited response. For example, Juan of Switzerland-based JCR Recording Service, home of Blue Lake Records releasing a unique roster of European...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Less than a month later, after looking around for a bootstrap business that could be started up and developed using this blog as a method for commenting on my progress I...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST But the roots of n10ah go back to June when I commented in one post about an observation made by Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo in a podcast interview with Greg Galant of...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST I want to mention in the next couple of posts what process I used to develop this new business idea and how it evolved. Since the new business has only just come into...
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I'm not sure I really know the answer to this one yet. However, after half a year writing this blog, I decided to take some of what I've been learning and put it to good use. The result is......
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In line with our past seven posts, Romanian entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu sends this from a 2005 World Bank report on efforts to encourage entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe. Eastern European...
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Bath Township, Ohio, entrepreneur Shelli Styles has launched a bootstrap business that is improving the lives of her husband's family and a growing community of women in Cali, Colombia. The women...
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Please don't peek behind our paper. There's a lot of work underway on a brand new project connected to BootStrapMe.com and I hope to be announcing it within the next month. All I can tell you...
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O.K., some extra thoughts here after I've had about a day to run all this through my cranial processor again. (I guess we'll call this "Bootstrapping the publishing biz (addendum)"...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST It is clear the newspaper business is living in denial. In a Sept. 17 post, blogger and publisher Joe Wikert says he has hopes that a column in his hometown paper, The...
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Like the music industry, the world of publishing, in all its forms, is undergoing a major transformation due in large part to the digital revolution. The change represents a major opportunity for...
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Our Bootstrapper's Club is still growing and is now at 14 members including Creative Weblogging executive editor Anita Campbell. (Welcome Anita!) It would be great to get more readers of this...
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A beta from Microsoft launched earlier this year offers free website hosting and design tools, business-branded e-mail accounts and domain name plus enhanced services that will eventually be...
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Bootstrappers! An interesting opportunity here, though a few weeks old, from the Bootstrapme.com mail bag: Dear Sir or madam, We are a manufacturer of portable display systems located in Guangzhou...
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Over regulation of businesses from African-style hairbraiding to taxi service in some of America's largest cities may hamper bootstrapping that could revitalize poor urban neighborhoods. That...
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A Beijing wholesaler with five years experience supplying to online markets in China is now focusing on the worldwide market. Sellerkey.com launched its site earlier this week offering a variety of...
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