Sometimes the bootstrapping process can seem a little like the equivalent of reanimating a corpse built out of spare parts ripped off from a graveyard. Sounds like fun, huh? Still, the seven golden...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST (here are the rest of the important points we've considered while preparing for our upcoming bootstrap business launch) • Scalability Compared to the traditional...
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As promised at the beginning of this month, a new bootstrap business project is about to launch here at BootStrapMe.com and I couldn't be more excited. As the pieces have been slowly put into...
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In line with our past seven posts, Romanian entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu sends this from a 2005 World Bank report on efforts to encourage entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe. Eastern European...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Dorobanescu also blogs that his little enterprise is making steady progress. Yep, my business is growing. It went from the stage I could run it in the evening to the...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST With his girlfriend handling additional sales and her sister doing web design, Dorobanescu said he was able to successfully keep his business operating. To a traditional...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST While his colleagues took the offer, Dorobanescu refused, preferring to continue his side business and existing full-time job He soon found he had a problem, however. His...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS TEXT In a May 2006 post, Dorobanescu explained his business provides an "opportunity enhancement" that full-time jobs just don't offer. He wrote:...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Building energybyte.com, Dorobanescu bootstrapped every step of the way. Keeping a good relationship with his former employer, he used that company as a source for early...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Internet entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu estimates the equivalent of just $300 would be enough money to start a software firm in Bacharest today. Dorobanescu ought to...
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Just 17 years after Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu died in front of a firing squad ending 42 years of Communist rule, a Bucharest Internet Entrepreneur says opportunities in his eastern...
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Have you spent way too long behind one of these? I took this shot while testing a digital camera on my way home from a very long day at the office. (I'm one of the lucky ones. Work is......
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And lest I be accused after the past two posts of being too stridently anti-investment, consider what one Venture Capital advisor had to say about the importance of leanness to investors while...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST So, you've made up your mind to resist the temptation of accepting big outside investment for your little start-up company. How do you go about financing your...
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Far from a pep talk for entrepreneurs on how they can accomplish their goals even without big outside investment dollars, Ed Zimmer of The Entrepreneur Network actually recommends avoiding those...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Experts say the trend toward business with social conscience is widespread including an increasing move toward "fair trade" encouraging fair prices, fair labor...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Styles says the rate paid to the women for their work is four times the usual payment for artisans in their community and has already allowed her sister-in-law to move...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST First, Styles hired a publicist to gain media exposure for her product after another designer referred her. That publicist in turn led her to a patent attorney who helped...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST In fact, Styles said it was not even necessary to pay the models seen in the photos on the company's website launched in late January and currently the source of most...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Starting any type of business locally seemed problematic due to the economic climate. "It's hard to think of a business you could start in a country that is so...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST According to Wikipedia, Santiago de Cali (Cali for short) is the capital of Valle de Cauca, one of the most important of 32 "departments" making up the Republic...
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After 16 years in sales, Shelli Styles, Bath, OH, was happy with a rewarding career and wasn't looking to start a new business. However, when Styles discovered a way to help her husband's...
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Listening to an interview yesterday with Michael Shermer, founder of The Skeptics Society and publisher of Skeptic magazine, inspired this thought as a possible middle ground between evolution and...
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