And on the day before the New Year, here are some links to posts we provided last year around this time.

Classics again from Inc.com all showing great examples of bootstrapping success continuing our Greatest Hits end of year roundup of posts over the past year and a half here at BootStrapMe.com.

• Start with nothing. The seminal interview with bootstrapping guru Greg Gianforte founder of RightNow Technologies and a major influence on the ideas in this blog
• The pita principle. How husband and wife team Mark and Stacy Andrus built a snack food empire with lots of pita while saving some bread
• Net Flix. The story of the building of DVD Empire, a bootstrapped competitor to heavily funded on line DVD sellers like Amazon.com.
• Start-up springboards. Several bootstrappers share their stories.
• The classic bootstrapper. Paul Aldrich launched Village Candle with $20 and a dream. Read his story...