And so just for a recap as we count down the hours and minutes until 2007, "Ten things I learned this year" plus one. Thanks to fellow blogger Ben Yoskovitz at the Instigator Blog for the...
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The Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu said "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." For all business, getting started is the hard part, but for bootstrappers there is no way to...
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Link: What did you learn this year? And maybe they never did. Consider Seth Godin's meditation on why B.B. King's Times Square Club has very few blues acts playing there now. And check what...
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Link: What did your learn this year? One of my favorite quotes on the bootstrapping ethic comes from RightNow Technologies founder Greg Gianforte when explaining the difference between being in...
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Link: What did you learn this year? Check out point 3 in Brad Feld's great "Bootstrapping top 10 list". Brad says: If your answer to "What kind of company are you going to...
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Link:What did you learn this year? This is another consideration that was running through my head while coming up with the idea for my first bootstrap business launch this year. And I really have to...
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Link:What did you learn this year? When running through branding notions for n10ah, I came across Seth Godin's well-known thoughts on branding and the need to market outrageously. It's...
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Link: What did you learn this year? When reflecting on what I had learned about choosing the best kind of business to start a couple of posts ago after launching the n10ah Online Music Network last...
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Link: What did you learn this year? This post was not originally planned as one of the "Ten things I learned this year" series (See more details on the writing project here and at the above...
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Link: What did you learn this year? This one, of course, is from start-up guru Guy Kawasaki, and despite the many criticisms of the practice by those who insist it encourages shoddy product, I have...
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Link: What did you learn this year? I borrowed this one from a commenter on my MyBlogLog message board, but it aptly reflects my sentiment now having launched one venture, the n10ah Online Music...
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Link: What did you learn this year? O.K. It's time to come out of the closet, so to speak. In previous posts, I've described myself as a journalist. It's true. I've done that for...
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Fellow blogger Ben Yoskovitz over at the Instigator Blog had the bright idea of ending 2006 with a big group writing project and laid it out in this post. Starting yesterday, the concept was for each...
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Fellow blogger and director of operations for Grasshopper New Media Ben Yoskovitz is working on yet another TOP SECRET project and has solicited responses from the online entrepreneurial community...
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Bootstrap entrepreneurs must not only be prepared to change direction quickly in the case of an obstacle as explained in the previous post. They must also be ready to seize an opportunity when it...
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Sometimes things simply don't go as planned. One of the benefits of bootstrap entrepreneurship is the ability to adapt quickly to that change when it comes free of the demands of creditors or...
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There's a new entry into the small business blogosphere launched by U.S. News & World Report. Money and Business Associate Editor Renuka Rayasam is piloting the new venture which the news...
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Glad you asked. After several months of editing this blog, it occurs to me we could use a fresh explanation of what we're doing here and why. Simply put, bootstrapping is any one of various...
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There's a new community for young entrepreneurs on the internet and I first found them when they found me. In the first post of his Mind Petals: Infinite Ideas to Bloom blog on June 4, founder...
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And now another little experiment in the networking power of blogging. Back in May, I posted this idea for an online mail order business combining Tiki and African art and décor and 50's vintage...
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Blogger Dave Taylor rather interestingly chose the occasion of his own speaking engagement at the recent Affiliate Summit July 9-11 in Orlando, FL, to question whether use of affiliate programs was...
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I know. I know. This is what the whole site is supposed to be about, right? But blogger and start-up consultant Dan Marques has put together such a concise list of bootstrap resources for online...
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Check out this article in the Southeast Missourian about mid-western college students turning to entrepreneurship as a way of getting summer work. Notice that in both cases these business models...
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