It started with a piece of plastic and a dream.

When fellow college students Tony Tran, Nick Leung and Dennis Ngin decided to get into the custom fraternity apparel business they didn't exactly take the most common route.

"I used a credit card to jump start my business. It has helped us out immensely. However, we do closely monitor and manage all of our credit card expenditures," Dennis said in a comment to a January post here at BootStrapMe.

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