Seth Godin's The Bootstrapper's Bible crystallizes many of the ideas discussed by other start-with-nothing entrepreneurs and also takes the dialogue beyond the IT industry.

A free 103 page PDF version available for download here is half mantra/half manifesto and relates the stories of bootstrappers as diverse as Michael Joaquin Grey and Matthew Brown, creators of the DNA-like Zoob toys and Charles Foley, Inventor of the 1960's party game Twister.

Read more about Godin, an entrepreneur in his own right and founder of Yoyodyne, an interactive direct marketing company acquired by Yahoo! in 1998, in this bio or read Seth's blog here.