It started with a piece of plastic and a dream. When fellow college students Tony Tran, Nick Leung and Dennis Ngin decided to get into the custom fraternity apparel business they didn't exactly...
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Since starting this blog in June of this year, we've had a chance to profile a wide variety of bootstrap entrepreneurs who have used imagination and inventiveness to make their dreams come true....
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In his explanation of why bootsrapping may be the perfect solution for start-up business, author and entrepreneur Greg Gianforte addresses many of the same issues Rapoport and Powell discovered...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Rapoport also says he may be on the verge of changing another earlier plan to concentrate on growing the business by opening multiple locations since wholesale demands...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST But when the station, pleased with the results (scroll down and check out the link to Haika's Kitchen on the page promoting their new mascot 'Pat the...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Rapoport and Powell outfitted the new location with used bakery equipment they had gradually purchased over the past two years and have not looked back. Their business...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST In the end, Rapoport found that the businesses earnings were lower than those projected in his business plan but still profitable in a less expensive location. Though he...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST In his "Start-up Financing-Why & How to Avoid the Investment Community" Ed Zimmer of The Entrepreneur Network suggests: Scale down your expectations. You...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...
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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...
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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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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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 get...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...
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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...
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