Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, David Hughes Thanks to Kris Dunn of The HR Capitalist for sharing links to Trizle, a great little blog with a bootstrapping bend. Check out in particular: • How to...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, kutay tanir I've been trying to answer this question in recent weeks and have drawn plenty of inspiration from Seth Godin: • Sell what people are buying. Blogging...
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Conversations about music bootstrapping in recent posts have me thinking in turn of another recent blog entry at Startup Africa revisiting Guy Kawasaki's thoughts on bootstrapping in general. My...
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In his great recent post at OnStartups, HubSpots co-founder Dharmesh Shah discusses his decision to raise $17 million in VC funding for the company he bootstrapped with $500,000 of his own money....
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The co-founder of HubSpot has written this great article over at OnStartups about why he chose to raise $17 million in Venture Funding despite a longtime commitment to bootstrapping. With partner...
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A few weeks ago I posted about an exercise meant to look at how to bootstrap an online music label from a nuts and bolts perspective. The post looked at a couple of ways that music could, and...
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Startup Africa recently revisited Guy Kawasaki's The Art of Bootstrapping post from his blog How To Change the World. It's long been a favorite of mine, and here, for my money, are the four...
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Sometimes the best sales force is an army of satisfied customers. Mike Smith makes a point along these same lines in his recent post "Word of Mouth Marketing: Thank your referrers."...
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In the comment section of a recent blog post, Carrie asks: What's behind your choice of Squidoo as a platform for your new site? Were there other ones you considered and rejected? Ones like...
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So what does all this tipping point stuff mean when it comes to choosing your startup product or service? After all, while marketer Seth Godin suggests you make you product remarkable, something as...
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I've been making a list of the kinds of music that, as an amateur musician, I could probably create with minimal or no help, at least in a kind of unplugged format. So far I've come up with...
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Gavin Bowman, director of V4 Solutions e-mails: Hi Shawn, Just read your post asking for suggestions for links relating to bootstrapping/entrepreneurship. I run a weekly newsletter post on my blog...
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You don't need to wait until the time is right to launch your bootstrap venture. In fact, as entrepreneur Greg Gianforte has pointed out, one of the best things about bootstrapping is that you...
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So, what do you do when you lack the skills to create the product or service you hope to bootstrap? A recent post at Bootstrap in Bangalore offers this advice for the entrepreneur who may at first...
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I love Saurabh Chandra's post on the subject of "How to become the right person" for a bootstrapping venture at Bootstrap in Bangalore. Unlike going on a job interview, bootstrapping...
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Among the "7 lies that keep your great idea from being a real business" is the need for capital to make it happen, says Greg Go of WiseBread. Greg mentions a couple of other great...
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Bootstrap entrepreneur Mary Miller cooked up the perfect menu for success with her string of Creative Concepts Café's in Northern California according to this story at MercuryNews.com. Her...
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Sometimes the pieces of the puzzle just don't fit together immediately. A business idea may not be able to be bootstrapped all at once because of the revenue needed. Take PostRanger.com, launched...
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It might surprise some readers to hear bootstrap business advocate Seth Godin talking about giving away a product like his 1998 book The Bootstrapper's Bible. But that's exactly what the...
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This idea came in part from an article by photographer Paul Morely about selling stock footage free on line. In part too, though it evolved from my own enthusiasm for taking photos like the one above...
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In The Price of Free, blogger and entrepreneur Justin Miller argues that creators of software and other intellectual property must charge for their work. I've advocated in a previous post for the...
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Though it may be called the root of something quite different in some religious circles, money, or in this case revenue, is the root of a bootstrapped business and no bootstrapping entrepreneur can...
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