BootStrapme Greatest Hits (Vol. 5)
For our fifth and final Greatest Hits post for 2007 we go back again to a post from the beginning of the year and an equally great series of links again back to Inc.com.
Here are profiles of eight great bootstrap startups that eventually made $1 million or more all launched for under $1,000. The series includes:
• Harnessing student power tells the story of entrepreneur Ron Voss's bid a music market company using nothing but student volunteers as his workforce.
• Up the drywall latter recounting the efforts of Jose Serrato to establish his own contracting firm.
• Countdown to wedding bells about entrepreneur Michael Pray's efforts to grow his bootstrap venture fast enough to hire staff allowing him to get away for an impending honeymoon.
• Charting value about John Ford's multi-million business launch inspired by his wife's law school notes.
• The Contrarian: Spending with a vengeance about David Cowen's business launch using the magic of plastic.
• Rambling for gems about Lori Bonn Gallagher's Wanderlust and how she fashioned it into the perfect bootstrapped business.
• Tickets to success about Mike Domek and how his natural gift for finagling great tickets to any event helped launch a low cost startup business.
• Webaholic's Big Break about how bootstrapper Ken Burke used his Internet knowledge to land space at a crucial trade show and build his business.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, BOOTSTRAPPERS!