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How to bootstrap a record store start-up (Part 1)

Filed in archive How-to on January 29, 2007

How to bootstrap a record store start-up (Part 1)
If you think starting a local record store requires thousands in capital and deals with every large scale label and small independent record company on the planet, you're mistaken.

Jim Bland and business partner Petie Kurzman started Plan 9 Records back in 1981 with just $1,000 each and records from their own private collections, according to an online company history.

The partners spent $350 a month for 600 square feet of retail space and salvaged a used cash register, borrowed fixtures and rented pinball machines to get started.

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