From the beginning here at BootStrapMe.com, I've tried to include plenty of tips, ideas and examples for prospective business bootstrappers.

So, in our end of year Greatest Hits series going back to the beginning of this blog in June 2006 let's look back at some of those posts that provided a variety of practical suggestions about how to bootstrap a business.

Ideas for a bootstrapping business

In a review of 45 great bootstrapping ideas from Inc.com we examined:

• Ways to cut down on your advertising costs
• How to save money when hiring and to find bootstrap capital
• Methods for managing cash flow and for finding office space

Shoestring start-up options

If searching out low cost ideas for a bootstrap startup is more your speed, Entrepreneur.com offers some great suggestions we reviewed in another series of posts.

Depending on your personal talents and abilities, the online version of the magazine makes recommendations in fields including:
• Business
• Personal services
• Product businesses, special event businesses and miscellaneous
• And gives pointers on ways to finance you bootstrap startup

The bootstrap primer series

A popular series from Inc.com, this one focusing on an overview of the bootstrapping process of business startup yielded these important posts including:
• Starting with nothing including important examples of how it's been done.
• Plastic potential looking at the financing options presented by credit cards.
• Work from home discussing early options to save on startup costs
• Hold the phone examining ways of saving money on communications costs and by extension on many of the other little business costs that ad up when you're starting out
• To staff or not to staff raising the question of how much help you really need in the beginning and the other options available for full-time help.