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...

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...

I've carped before about Venture Capitalist Brad Feld's top ten list for bootstrapping business, particularly number two. To be sure, Feld has experience as a bootstrapper. As he explains:...

Take a look at Wikipedia's definition of scalability. Here's just a portion: In telecommunications and software engineering,...a desirable property of a system, a network or a process, which...

Back to the subject of Seth's Purple Cow notions, one other point must be made on the subject of to whom we are marketing. I've been thinking about this a lot too lately as our business model...

Marketing guru Seth Godin suggests brands and product messages today must be as outrageous and attention getting as, say, a Purple Cow. Meanwhile blogger Brad Williamson of Small Business Branding...

Bath Township, Ohio, entrepreneur Shelli Styles has launched a bootstrap business that is improving the lives of her husband's family and a growing community of women in Cali, Colombia. The women...

So, you've decided to give working at home a try, at least in the beginning of your new bootstrapped business. Here then, in honor of fellow business blogger and entrepreneur Ben Yoskovitz's...

Though he rented a Madison Avenue address to give his start-up credibility, entrepreneur Jeremy Barbera launched his direct-marketing company Metro Services Group Inc. at his living room table in...

Please don't peek behind our paper. There's a lot of work underway on a brand new project connected to BootStrapMe.com and I hope to be announcing it within the next month. All I can tell you...