CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Having reviewed this great list, let's try a follow-up exercise. If you can think of any startup don'ts (or even some startup do's), post 'em on your own...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST For his second 10 No-No's Dane suggests: 11. Thou Shalt Not Design A Logo Oh-oh! Explain that light bulb thingy at the top of your website then,...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 6. thou Shalt Not Hire An Accountant Dane recommends Quickbooks Simple Start. (An accountant actually recommended I buy this while I was trying to...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Automattic Inc., the folks who maintain the popular wordpress blogging platform, have posted a great blurb in the Terms of Sevice section of their...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST As Dane points out, working from home usually costs you nothing to start and no rent. Here are my own tips for working at home with some helpful...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 2. thou Shalt Not Incorporate Especially not in the state of Pennsylvania where I live and which boasts (for some reason) one of the highest...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST I've posted about this one before. Leaving your day job before you have a viable business model worked out (not on paper, I'm talking about...
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Here's a great set of rules to follow for any bootstrapping entrepreneur. Business Opportunities Weblog Network creator Dane Carlson has assembled what I think are the ultimate Ten Commandments...
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Thanks to Romanian entrepreneur and blogger Cristian Dorobantescu for the great previous guest posts and for the link back from his own blog here. Cristian's got four other great posts on the...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Higher determination to succeed. Now, really, in a self funded company, if you're doing it wrong, it might be the end. You can't...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST And then, there is the self-accomplishment feeling. If you are in a small company, you know that everything that was done, was done by you. If...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Also, self funded companies are better in using resources. Sure, I'm talking about travel expenses, office supplies and stuff like that,...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Then, externally funded companies could offer better payments to employees - which in theory attracts better specialists - in reality this...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Now that we have established the basics, here is the idea: from my experience, self-funded companies tend to have higher commitment, more...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST During my 5 years working in software companies I got the chance to work on both self-funded (and bootstrapped) and external funded companies....
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Editor's Note: (Cristian Dorobantescu is a software sales professional and bootstrap entrepreneur living in Bucharest, romania. He is the founder of Energybyte, a web design firm started with two...
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A bit off the topic of bootstrapping...or is it? German serial entrepreneur Steli Efti plans to start a revolution with nothing in the way of resources...nothing but a black screen and an idea that...
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Think a bootstrap company can't grab national headlines and adopt a socially conscious philosophy right from the start? You'd be wrong! Bootstrap entrepreneur Shelli Styles has done just that...
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So, you want to start a retail business, but you're mindful of bootstrapping principles. You would prefer to get some kind of cash flow going before you start spending on things like store front...
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Thanks to UK blogger Sanjay for including BootStrapMe in his "Great Business Blogs of '06" list. Among Sanjay's other picks were fellow Creative Weblogging contributors Greg...
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