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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So how do you bring in all this wonderful money without outside investment? How do you make money without spending money? Well, an increasing number of on line tools exist to help generate revenue...
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A member of the senior management team uttered this phrase recently at a staff meeting, conjuring images of actor Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s iconic Rod Tidwell in the Tom Cruise film Jerry McGuire. The...
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As a wrap up for our discussion of social networks, the use of a myriad of on line tools to market a product or business can be of immeasurable use to the bootstrapper. • As marketing expert...
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And, of course, no discussion of on line social networks would be complete without at least touching on possibly the most popular of them all-MySpace. Though I maintain both a homepage with blog and...
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If your aim is more toward timely articles than collecting a social network around your particular writings or products than one of a growing number of news sites might be the thing for your...
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So what do you do if you haven't got the budget for slick television and radio announcements and full page display ads in newspapers and magazines to promote your business? Here's a thought....
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Sitting at a staff meeting recently discussing expansions recently, a realized the radical difference between a bootstrapped and a more conventional business approach. To be sure, expansion of...
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In a recent move at PostRanger.com, I invited readers to become involved in three of our newest products: Allentown News, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Metro and News of the Poconos. The idea was a...
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There are plenty of disagreements about the role of social networks as marketing tools but many bootstrappers realize that with limited resources they remain a key ingredient. For my final post in...
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After reading this recent op-ed from green publishers Josh P. McClary and Jessica Sanchez of Kedzie Press, I was reminded again of the reasons I'm so happy to be in the non-paper publishing media...
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Environmentally friendly businesses may be the perfect bootstrapped startup because they have a natural niche from which to build a customer base. Consider Brilliant Earth, a business built around...
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Some of the reasons for the appeal of home business include: • No commuting-Your morning commute is a trip to the living room • Low overhead-The telephone and computer you already have, no office...
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From low tech to high tech, the next entry in our series of bootstrap startup ideas was inspired in part by a piece of spam (Yes, sometimes it is tasty!) left on a previous post. Starting a retail...
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Edward at positivecapitalism suggests this stripped down version of the business plan for bootstrappers. I've questioned in the past here at BootStrapMe.com whether traditional business plans are...
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Ben Kepes has this post over at diversity.net.nz summarizing some thoughts by Bob Warfield on how to beat the predicted coming recession. Not surprising (to me anyway) is point number 8 about...
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As part of our BootStrapMe Greatest Hits series influenced to some extent by Tom Pick's "Top 2007" posts idea, here are some great collections of bootstrapping philosophy we've...
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As mentioned before here at bootstrapme.com much of this startup strategy we call bootstrapping is done out of necessity. Jeff Cornwall of The Entrepreneurial Mind explains in a series of posts...
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In his "Four Pillars of Organic Growth" at Inc.com Joel Spolsky co-founder and CEO of Fog Creek Software suggests cash flow, hiring, publicity and quality must all increase at roughly the...
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Bootstrap entrepreneurship is about more than just starting a business on a shoestring. It's about building a great company that functions in the real world beyond the theory of a business plan....
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Today's my last day at my old job, a gig I've held for almost ten years. I've turned down a couple of offers over the years despite the fact that I've been ready for a change for some...
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Yes, bootstrapping can mean starting a business with nothing or almost nothing, but two bloggers urge bootstrap entrepreneurs to also be realistic when it comes to necessities for a startup. •...
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