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In retrospect, the change in plan for the bake shop also proved an excellent example of the dangers in what start-up expert Guy Kawasaki describes as forecasting from the...
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In his "Start-up Financing-Why & How to Avoid the Investment Community" Ed Zimmer of The Entrepreneur Network suggests:
Scale down your expectations. You d...
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Whichever way it happened, by March 2005 the couple found themselves looking at a 1,600 square foot space in a strip mall south of Bethlehem, PA where the initial plan in...
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From the tape, Rapoport took the concept that there was a difference between self-employment and creation of a business that does not depend on the owner for day-to-day o...
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The couple's recipe for success has proven as delicious as customers seem to find the pecan pies, macaroons, apricot almond squares, ginger pound cake and other goodi...
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For the software developer, web 2.0 entrepreneur or virtual professional, getting started in business can be as easy (and as inexpensive) as gaining access to the Internet.
Texas-based virtual assist...
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It's a common strategy when starting the next great software venture.
But how can bootstrapping business techniques help bricks and mortar entrepreneurs build more traditional businesses without ...
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Like montana-based bootstrapper Greg Gianforte, who gave away the first
prototype of the software from his company RightNow Technologies Inc. to anyone who would use it,...
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Like many in the bootstrapping business community, Prestileo points out that it is hard to know where her work might eventually lead her.
As an example, Prestileo points...
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From her small bedroom studio, Prestileo keeps in touch with a far flung network of artists around the world seeking feedback for her work through an online community cal...
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Prestileo's heroes, aside from the writers and illustrators of her favorite
mainstream comics, are other web based artists who have similarly used the Internet to ge...
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Prestileo's workspace is a small desk in her bedroom where she makes Pencil
drawings on paper, scans them in to a small PC workstation and applies color and other enh...
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Prestileo has been drawing since the second grade and has always been sought after for her artwork.
"I was the kid everyone came to and said, 'Shell, can you dr...
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The bootstrap philosophy has been used by many entrepreneurs to build thriving businesses with little or no beginning investment.
The philosophy helped bootstrapper Andrew S. Field, grow PrintingforL...
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Dorobanescu also blogs that his little enterprise is making steady progress.
Yep, my business is growing. It went from the stage I could run it in the evening to the sta...
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With his girlfriend handling additional sales and her sister doing web design, Dorobanescu said he was able to successfully keep his business operating.
To a traditional...
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While his colleagues took the offer, Dorobanescu refused, preferring to continue his side business and existing full-time job
He soon found he had a problem, however.
H...
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In a May 2006 post, Dorobanescu explained his business provides an "opportunity enhancement" that full-time jobs just don't offer. He wrote:
Entrepreneur...
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Building energybyte.com, Dorobanescu bootstrapped every step of the way.
Keeping a good relationship with his former employer, he used that company as a source for ear...
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Internet entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu estimates the equivalent of just $300 would be enough money to start a software firm in Bacharest today.
Dorobanescu ought to...
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Just 17 years after Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu died in front of a firing squad ending 42 years of Communist rule, a Bucharest Internet Entrepreneur says opportunities in his eastern European ...
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Experts say the trend toward business with social conscience is widespread including an increasing move toward "fair trade" encouraging fair prices, fair labor ...
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Styles says the rate paid to the women for their work is four times the usual payment for artisans in their community and has already allowed her sister-in-law to move in...
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First, Styles hired a publicist to gain media exposure for her product after another designer referred her.
That publicist in turn led her to a patent attorney who helpe...
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In fact, Styles said it was not even necessary to pay the models seen in the photos on the company's website launched in late January and currently the source of most...
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Starting any type of business locally seemed problematic due to the economic climate.
"It's hard to think of a business you could start in a country that is so ...
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According to Wikipedia, Santiago de Cali (Cali for short) is the capital of Valle de Cauca, one of the most important of 32 "departments" making up the Republic...
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After 16 years in sales, Shelli Styles, Bath, OH, was happy with a
rewarding career and wasn't looking to start a new business.
However, when Styles discovered a way to help her husband's po...
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For the small business or overworked executive, Blanche Evans, editor of Realty Times, says the virtual assistant can provide a near perfect solution over hiring new empl...
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Aday said she is not worried about floating to the top of search engines like Google at first and, though she knows her online presence will give her visibility, she said...
