Since starting this blog in June of this year, we've had a chance to profile a wide variety of bootstrap entrepreneurs who have used imagination and inventiveness to make their dreams come true.
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And so just for a recap as we count down the hours and minutes until 2007, "Ten things I learned this year" plus one.
Thanks to fellow blogger Ben Yoskovitz at the Instigator Blog for the g...
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(O.K. I couldn't resist. Though this post comes WAAAAAAAAY after the Dec. 24 deadline set by fellow blogger Ben Yoskovitz for his last group writing project of...
The Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu said "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
For all business, getting started is the hard part, but for bootstrappers there is no way to ...
And now for a bit of holiday fun as we drift into the New Year.
Tom Pick over at the WebMarketingCentral Blog tagged me just before Christmas with his own "5 Things You Didn't Know About Me&...
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And maybe they never did.
Consider Seth Godin's meditation on why B.B. King's Times Square Club has very few blues acts playing there now.
And check what...
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One of my favorite quotes on the bootstrapping ethic comes from RightNow Technologies founder Greg Gianforte when explaining the difference between being in busin...
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Check out point 3 in Brad Feld's great "Bootstrapping top 10 list". Brad says:
If your answer to "What kind of company are you going to start?&...
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This is another consideration that was running through my head while coming up with the idea for my first bootstrap business launch this year.
And I really have to...
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When running through branding notions for n10ah, I came across seth Godin's well-known thoughts on branding and the need to market outrageously.
It's impor...
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When reflecting on what I had learned about choosing the best kind of business to start a couple of posts ago after launching the n10ah Online Music Network last m...
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This post was not originally planned as one of the "Ten things I learned this year" series (See more details on the writing project here and at the above...
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This one, of course, is from start-up guru Guy Kawasaki, and despite the many criticisms of the practice by those who insist it encourages shoddy product, I have y...
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I borrowed this one from a commenter on my MyBlogLog message board, but it aptly reflects my sentiment now having launched one venture, the n10ah Online Music Netw...
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O.K. It's time to come out of the closet, so to speak. In previous posts, I've described myself as a journalist. It's true. I've done that for abou...
Fellow blogger Ben Yoskovitz over at the Instigator Blog had the bright idea of ending 2006 with a big group writing project and laid it out in this post.
Starting yesterday, the concept was for each...
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The following weekend, I uploaded the images to CafePress.com, one of a new generation of on demand printers specializing in creating one such item (T-shirt, cap, coffee ...
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Back at home Sunday, I cut out each of the letters individually and arranged them with the print outs on various surfaces. (The corner of a scratched up coffee table and ...
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On the way to my parents' house on Saturday afternoon, however, I discovered my wife had inadvertently taken my bank card with her to work leaving me with $1.00 in my...
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Back to our boutique project, my initial plan was to print up a photo I had used on the website and elsewhere for the n10ah network (see my Dad with one above) and a separ...
We interrupt this regularly scheduled post series to bring you this important update:
Look, Ma'! I'm bloggin' at Blogtronix.
I've been given the opportunity to test drive this blog/w...
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I've taken this recommendation very much to heart over the last couple of months. You can't get feedback on something that's never been released to the public...
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Specifically, in his "The Art of Bootstrapping" post, Guy explains it this way:
I can feel the comments coming in already: How can you recommend shipping s...
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A good example of how this worked in my boutique set-up was this.
My wife, a talented layout designer, could probably have whipped up a slicker package than the one I cr...
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Returning to that last point, it's interesting to note how much of a commodity time really is for the bootstrapper. Actually, time is money for most entrepreneurs as ...
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The materials I used on this project (yours may be different depending on your goals):
• A quality color printer My dad's (seen above), meaning it cost me only a 45 ...
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The project probably could have been completed faster had it not been for full-time employment demands which are often part of the realities for any bootstrapper.
But I ...
stocking an online store doesn't have to be a major project.
And, as I intend to show in the next few posts, it does not require a large capital investment to create attractive items for sale, ei...
With a new majority taking control not only in Washington, but here in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as well, some business leaders might see big changes ahead.
But not small business lea...
A new bootstrap business network (as of last month) offers resources particularly for European entrepreneurs in the information technology field.
According to the site's welcome page, the network...
After spending the last week getting the n10ah Online Music Network launched, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on some of what I've learned about how to choose a business model for boo...
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