CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Of course, a site allowing online download of independent music is nothing new and dates back to mp3.com and other sites, but what makes n10ah different is the Human...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST returning to the drawing board, I decided to create an online music network in the broadest possible sense using existing free online platforms by combining blogs,...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST The launch did garner a limited response. For example, Juan of Switzerland-based JCR Recording Service, home of Blue Lake Records releasing a unique roster of European...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Less than a month later, after looking around for a bootstrap business that could be started up and developed using this blog as a method for commenting on my progress I...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST But the roots of n10ah go back to June when I commented in one post about an observation made by Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo in a podcast interview with Greg Galant of...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST I want to mention in the next couple of posts what process I used to develop this new business idea and how it evolved. Since the new business has only just come into...
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I'm not sure I really know the answer to this one yet. However, after half a year writing this blog, I decided to take some of what I've been learning and put it to good use. The result is......
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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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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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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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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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