Bootstrapper's group still needs members

Filed in archive Bootstrapper Resources on October 7, 2007

I'm still trying to generate some interest in our Bootstrapper's Group on Yahoo!

Some associates asked me why a Yahoo! group instead of, say, a larger social community like the Bootstrap Network or a global network for business professionals like Xing.

I guess my answer is that I have very specific goals for this particular group and am hoping they can be realized with a little more involvement.

Here were some of my initial goals:

• To forge a smaller more intimate group as sort of a co-op of bootstrapping entrepreneurs and experts interested in the bootstrapping process
• To use a format for the group's communications that was more content intensive then a linking site like MyBlogLog and more focused and self-contained than MySpace
• To share and barter resources and news about each others' projects in an environment in which the whole group could keep track and render comment and assistance when necessary
• To allow for exchange on a conversational level shared only by those who are members of the group.

I've shared some of beginning steps of PostRanger.com's start-up with the group in a way that is harder to do for the more general reading audience of this blog or the PostRanger main blog for that matter.

If you are a bootstrapping entrepreneur, someone interested in starting on the path of entrepreneurship, interested in entrepreneurs as an angel or other investor or as a coach or mentor or if you are just a reader of this blog, I encourage you to join. Let's see what happens.