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For Blackney, an investment in time more than money, figuring out her product and developing the relationships and team needed to make her effort a success, proved most c...
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While working in Vermont and later as a deck hand on a charter sale boat in Provincetown, MA, at the tip of Cape Cod from September to October 2006, Kraus saved money liv...
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In fact, in what Kraus described as a case of "post college follies" after graduating from Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. With a degree in psychology and...
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Despite their differing political views, both Kraus and Blackney used bootstrapping techniques to hatch their political business ventures.
For Kraus, the startup was par...
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In the end, Blackney strikes a tone somewhere between controversial conservative shock columnist Ann Coulter and Wonkette emeritus and political gossip diva Ana Marie Cox...
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Kraus's emerging line of shirts can be found at his online store at www.bleedingheartsclub.com or at a variety of far flung retailers including:
• Clothesline Organi...
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In an article he wrote for Fast Company called "In Praise of the Purple Cow" laying the ground work for his book's release, Seth explained:
Remarkable mar...
When bootstrapping a business, establishing a strong brand can be a major way to distinguish yourself without a big advertising budget.
Marketing guru Seth Godin insists the best brands are those tha...
bijou Goswami is one half bootstrap entrepreneur one half bootstrap business guru.
His company Aviri, provides an open source network for entrepreneurs to connect across the nation and around the w...
As regular readers of this blog and visitors to both our MyBlogLog and MySpace communities are no doubt aware, one of the quintessential guides to the bootstrapper business model remains Seth Godin...
You may have heard growing up as I did that mixing business and family relationships can be a recipe for disaster.
It's a fact, however, that entrepreneurs, particularly bootstrappers, seeking to...
Mark H. Brennan, president of Las Vegas Coffee Investors LLC has developed this great model to balance projected revenue and costs against real world performance.
The original download is located at ...
In the last entry of entrepreneurs' stories at the Kauffman Foundation's bootstrap resource page, Boston Globe reporter Robert Weisman writes about entrepreneurs who are shying away from capit...
So what happens when your business endeavor doesn't go well?
The late Robert Heinmiller was co-founder and vice president of Omnet Inc., a company that enjoyed a second run after the $3.5 million...
A completely different method of creating and growing a business on bootstrap principles is to use cash only to finance start-up and ongoing operations.
Still, advocates of this approach, like Bill C...
Though some might urge staying away from credit card debt, Eric Rosenfeld, president of Adaptive Consulting Partners LLC, insists they may be the best tool for bootstrap entrepreneurs.
Here are Eric&...
One option to keep overhead low can be operating your company largely in the virtual world.
Though website businesses are often created in this way, a variety of other businesses including mail order...
How did Barbara Carey launch the Hairagami Company now generating more than $80 million in sales worldwide with just $800 of her own money?
Bootstrapping, that's how.
In this case, according to ...
In our next article review from the Kauffman Foundation's bootstrapping resource page, when entrepreneur Razor Suleman convinced his parents to loan him $15,000 for twenty cases of sports cards it...
Susan L. Bragg, president of SpectrAlliance Inc. claims she built her company into a leader in the manufacture of control systems for spectroscopic analysis in the pharmaceutical industry mainly by ju...
In the first of a series of entrepreneurs' stories at the Kauffman Foundation's great bootstrapping resource page, Alex Welch, co-founder of Photobucket, talks about starting his company with ...
Think bootstrapping is just for the Web 2.0 world?
In the next link from the Kauffman Foundation's bootstrapping resource page, freelance business writer Matthew Solan offers a guide to buying ma...
As promised back in April, I'd like to complete a series of posts reviewing a resource site provided by the Kauffman Foundation specifically targeted to bootstrap entrepreneurship.
I was hoping t...
Former U.S. Marine and entrepreneur Ann Bernard says she's using bootstrapping techniques despite seeking VC or other outside funding for her startup social network Why Go Solo.
For example, a bl...
Well, maybe if this post by Jeff O'Brien has any validity.
Especially if the cost of startup for technology companies stays low.
Consider that Romanian software and web design entrepreneur Crist...
So, to recap, Hessinger Media is the first step in a bootstrap endeavor, one I'm hoping will evolve into a unique combination of eclectic content blogging, interactive user posting, personal media...
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Here are some of the concepts for content here at Hessinger Media that readers of another blog, n10ah, have helped develop along with a few of mine.
Feel free to add som...
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So who am I and what am I all about?
My name is Shawn Hessinger, a journalist and blogger and the founder of Hessinger Media.
I am also the host/editor of www.bootstrap...
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Welcome to Hessinger Media, an online startup and experiment in eclectic content blogging that we hope will eventually offer not only a high quality variety of blogs to v...
Those of you familiar with this site know that for me BootStrapMe is much more than just an online journal of resources for the prospective and practicing bootstrap entrepreneur.
This blog also repre...
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