National Public Radio had an interesting story yesterday that highlighted the plight of many people involved in entrepreneurship and home-based business. If their business fails, they are just as unem...
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As a revised version of Monday's failed Wall Street "bailout" legislation passes the Senate and is now being evaluated by members in the House he...
Has the latest news on U.S. and global financial problems got you down?
There is an alternative. Stop worrying about Wall Street and bootstrap your business startup or expansion instead.
Here's ...
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We've had at least two new members join our revitalized Yahoo! Group this month since we began promoting it again.
I'm hoping also to enco...
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I've added some more retro posts to our MySpace blog, links to some of our earliest posts back in 2006.
Check out the earliest entries from our arch...
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The action has cooled down somewhat on our Bootstrapper's Group over at Yahoo!, but the possibilities are now better than ever with a new Rich-Text e...
With the term gaining acceptance including a listing in the latest edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (See article at Telegraph.co.uk) you're liable to read a lot more about bootstr...
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The term "bootstrap" has made the 11th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary according to this article from Telegraph.co.uk.
The ne...
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Blogger and venture journalist Donna Bogatin will host a StartupAlpha pitch meet and tech connection party 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. August 12 at the Midtown Pub,...
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Bootstrap entrepreneurs in the US who find themselves less than enthused with the two likely major party candidates for president of the United States thi...
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Mystic Cab, a film co-written by bootstrap envangelist Bijoy Goswami, premiers Thursday at 6 p.m. at (where else?) The Bootstrap Film Festival, Arbor Cin...
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...
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...
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...
BootStrapMe.com is now linked to the growing PostRanger.com media network and will serve as the premier blog in Postranger's new "Business" section beginning this week.
The new arrange...
In our next series of posts anticipating a re-launch of my own bootstrapping project PostRanger.com, we'll look at the ways media companies can be bootstrapped more easily than ever before with n...
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There's a new sunrise for bootstrapping in Montana.
Sunrise Pack Station, a small business specializing in educational and fishing pack trips in Yellowstone National Park, is the second recipien...
SKMurphy Inc., a consulting firm specializing in assisting bootstrap entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley's software industry, will hold a workshop on presenting new applications to customers from 8 a...
We've already got some members on the new MySpace group Bootstrap your business today.
But, of course, I'm hoping for even more participation.
As I said in an earlier post, the purpose of t...
What does BootStrapMe.com have in common with TV?
That's right. Re-runs.
Don't want to search through that pesky archive to mine this website's greatest treasures of business informatio...
A new bootstrap group on MySpace is focusing on helping you start your bootstrap venture immediately...and it's all absolutely free.
Our hope is to gather contributions and participation from wo...
The big day was actually yesterday but I'm celebrating today at my parents' place in the Poconos.
Nick Meyer, a friend of mine on MySpace, sent me best wishes. Thanks, Nick.
Nick plays guit...
Imagine the results if everyone with an idea for a new business today simply stopped waiting for enough money to get going or interest from an outside investor and just started to build their busines...
Before I helped launch BootStrapMe.com in June 2006, I edited another blog called simply The Upstart Entrepreneur.
The premise was simple. Instead of writing long complicated business plans, the blo...
Cordia Harrington, president and CEO of the Tennessee Bun Company now heads a company that produces 60,000 buns an hour for clients like McDonald's, Chili's and Pepperidge Farms.
But that&#...
Wisconsin business Titan Ken Hendricks who rose from high school drop out to head a construction supply empire died earlier today from injuries sustained in an accident at his home.
See this report ...
More big news from bootstrap success story Spirit DSP via Realtime Community:
SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of voice and video software engines, announced today that Huawei Technologi...
Kevin Koym at Exponential Entrepreneur suggests that bootstrapping through leveraging social capital may be a great remedy for coming recession.
While I'm not sure I share Kevin's enthusiasm...
Entrepreneur Peter Thum developed Ethos Water from a bootstrapped business launched in 2002 to a $7.7 million business sold to Starbucks in 2005.
The company, created on the premise of donating a pe...
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