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Bootstrapper News
on April 30, 2008
Two weeks ago I made an announcement not only here but on our Yahoo!, MySpace and MyBlogLog groups that I was looking for some reader interaction for some future posts.
As I stated on this blog at t...
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Bootstrapper News
on April 30, 2008
An educational session featuring one of Montana's leading bootstrappers is aimed at giving rural entrepreneurs and others an insight into this self-reliant technique of venture startup.
Greg Gia...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 28, 2008
So, what do you do when you lack the skills to create the product or service you hope to bootstrap?
A recent post at Bootstrap in Bangalore offers this advice for the entrepreneur who may at first n...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 27, 2008
I love Saurabh Chandra's post on the subject of "How to become the right person" for a bootstrapping venture at Bootstrap in Bangalore.
Unlike going on a job interview, bootstrapping r...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 26, 2008
Among the "7 lies that keep your great idea from being a real business" is the need for capital to make it happen, says Greg Go of WiseBread.
Greg mentions a couple of other great bootstra...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 23, 2008
Bootstrap entrepreneur Mary Miller cooked up the perfect menu for success with her string of Creative Concepts Café's in Northern California according to this story at MercuryNews.com.
Her sumpt...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 22, 2008
Sometimes the pieces of the puzzle just don't fit together immediately.
A business idea may not be able to be bootstrapped all at once because of the revenue needed.
Take PostRanger.com, launch...
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Entrepreneurship
on April 20, 2008
I've tried this kind of interaction before with readers of this blog and have always been pleased with the results.
So I'm hoping fellow bloggers and entrepreneurs will join me again for a l...
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Entrepreneurship
on April 19, 2008
Vikas Sehgal, co-founder and CEO of Nagarro Inc., built his company mainly by starting with skilled people and using the money his company earned to hire more, according to IndUS Business Journal Onl...
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Entrepreneurship
on April 17, 2008
This great comment from Miles at College Mogul reminds us of the importance of hunger especially to the bootstrapping entrepreneur.
That hunger I believe most prospective entrepreneurs probably shar...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 16, 2008
It might surprise some readers to hear bootstrap business advocate Seth Godin talking about giving away a product like his 1998 book The Bootstrapper's Bible.
But that's exactly what the fou...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 15, 2008
This idea came in part from an article by photographer Paul Morely about selling stock footage free on line.
In part too, though it evolved from my own enthusiasm for taking photos like the one abov...
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Bootstrapper News
on April 12, 2008
While some entrepreneurs may be happy to bootstrap their companies indefinitely as the best way to launch, grow and maintain control of their ventures, others may choose it as a route to outside fund...
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Entrepreneurship
on April 12, 2008
Tim Berry's post "Does investment make the venture?" can also remind us of another major difference between the bootstrapped business and the business that receives outside funding.
Th...
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Entrepreneurship
on April 11, 2008
You bet it is...at least in my book!
Tim Berry asks (and answers) this fundamental question in his post "Does investment make the venture?".
Though I'm not sure I like Tim's seemi...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 9, 2008
In The Price of Free, blogger and entrepreneur Justin Miller argues that creators of software and other intellectual property must charge for their work.
I've advocated in a previous post for th...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 8, 2008
Though it may be called the root of something quite different in some religious circles, money, or in this case revenue, is the root of a bootstrapped business and no bootstrapping entrepreneur can r...
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Bootstrapping Thoughts
on April 6, 2008
As worries persist over a possible broadening U.S. recession, does a troubled economy bode well or ill for bootstrap entrepreneurs?
In a recent interview on NPR's "Fresh Air" Michael G...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 5, 2008
So how do you bring in all this wonderful money without outside investment? How do you make money without spending money?
Well, an increasing number of on line tools exist to help generate revenue e...
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Bootstrapper Tips
on April 4, 2008
A member of the senior management team uttered this phrase recently at a staff meeting, conjuring images of actor Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s iconic Rod Tidwell in the Tom Cruise film Jerry McGuire.
The...
