Young Entrepreneur had a piece recently on entrepreneurial personality. It was an interesting look at the importance of matching personality to your job function.
The article interviews consultant Bi...
Scott Dig, a bootstrapper himself, had an instructive little fable for the bootstrappers of the world earlier this month. I won't retell it in its entirety, but the moral is that we often lose sig...
Dave Cheong had an interesting piece this week on bootstrapping. It was a nice, simple review of the concept.
"A bootstrapper is someone who uses his own time, money and resources to get a busin...
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With both major party presidential conventions behind us, it seems the coming general election holds little promise for bootstrappers here in the U.S. (See the video from JibJab below).
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As my labor day weekend draws to an end, I managed to get in some relaxing...but not much.
For those readers not living in the U.S., here is a brief explanation of the holiday and what ...
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So what is the big deal with bootstrapping? Why should perspective entrepreneurs consider it as a method for starting a new venture? Here are some reason...
How do you know your business model is sound?
During a visit to the City of Pottsville in the Pennsylvania anthracite region this weekend, my wife and I came upon the above vintage vase and talked w...
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Just when you thought you'd never here about another tie between business and Chinese warfare, blogger Joshua Baer's got another one.
Baer share...
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A recent post by blogger and venture journalist Donna Bogatin raises the question again about the need for big venture capital in a Web 2.0 startup world.
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More link pages rounding out the category sections for PostRanger.com our startup du jour here at BootStrapMe.com.
For more about our new bootstrapped s...
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I like this phrase coined (as far as I know) by Guy Kawasaki in his post "The Art of Bootstrapping".
I talked about it a bit as well when cha...
As worries persist over a possible broadening U.S. recession, does a troubled economy bode well or ill for bootstrap entrepreneurs?
In a recent interview on NPR's "Fresh Air" Michael G...
Happy Easter from the team at BootStrapMe.com and PostRanger.com, the web's newest on line media network.
This is a great time of year to consider resurrecting your bootstrapped business project...
There are many ways to start a business: bank loan, venture funding, angel or other outside investors, etc.
However, entrepreneur Greg Gianforte insists the best method remains bootstrapping and giv...
Those who regularly read this blog are probably aware of my abiding interest in media.
So, I was fascinated with this post by John Crickett via 10 Yetis of the below video showing a BBC crew's s...
In anticipation of another book on bootstrapping by Jeff Cornwall of The Entrepreneurial Mind, here is a great list of great existing resources on the topic both from my own research and mikem's ...
So, why can having no or limited money and resources be an advantage?
Well, consider these possible competitive advantages that a bootstrapped enterprise might have over better funded corporate ente...
Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, believes there are some important bootstrapping elements to be included in an undergrad ent...
sacred archetypal mystical art is inspiring a growing otaku among sophisticated collectors, or so says Denise Alvarado, Voodoo Mama of The Mystic Voodoo and an artist and spiritualist.
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Last month I blogged on VC innovator Simeon Simeonov's concept of a "third way" for bootstrappers and venture capital firms to interact at the earliest stages of launching a new startup...
In our last post we looked at how and why bootstrappers change the world.
But in his latest entry at the Exponential Entrepreneur blog Kevin Koym, founder and CEO of Enterprise Teaming LLC, looks at...
No, this isn't necessarily a reference to Guy Kawasaki's blog. Just a statement of fact, and something I was thinking about on the way home tonight.
Here are five solid reasons why, but firs...
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