CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST As mentioned in a previous post, the U.S. Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research program remains a less known option for funding your business...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Wendy Fergerson was able to get her business Integrated Printing Solutions off the ground by using large infusions of borrowed money, up to $60,000 a month in her first...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Though not traditional bootstrapping, Warren Katz, founder and CEO of MAK Technologies found an unlikely candidate to fund development of his software to... ...link,...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Here's how Art Reisman, CEO, CTO and co-founder of APconnections Inc. explains his company's first product NetEqualizer: At APconnections, our flagship product,...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Entrepreneur David Rabjohns, founder and president of MotiveQuest LLC, a company that monitors on line conversations about its clients' brand identity, says he...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Whether you decide to raise external funds or not, bootstrapping allows you to "extend the runway" (delay the raising of additional funds while increasing the...
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Calling it a way to "extend the runway" in an effort to get a new venture off the ground, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has posted a treasure-trove of bootstrapping resources to its...
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There's still time for more contributions to our collection of business mantras started earlier this month. The idea stems from a suggestion by entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki in his book...
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For our final installment of Inc.com's "Bootstrapper's Primer". take a look at how some start-with-nothing entrepreneurs deal with Staffing issues in a variety of creative ways....
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When it comes to dealing with the outside world, the bootstrap entrepreneur could use a flair for the dramatic to appear larger than they are. Aurora Pucciarello of Max Distribution put customers on...
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While some bootstrap entrepreneurs like Robert Dobrient and Aurora Pucciarello have gone to great lengths to create the impression of a professional business address (read their story at Inc.com),...
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Another method of keeping costs down is to work from home, according to Inc.com's Bootstrapper's Primer. Remember Allen Shatto from our previous post on starting with nothing who sold beef...
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More than one bootstrapper has started in business with nothing more than a credit card, but financing a start-up with debt must be done carefully and thoughtfully. Partners Bill Dayton, Phil Cooper,...
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As we've explained in previous posts, starting with nothing or with whatever you have is part of the bootstrapping approach to entrepreneurship. Here, from Inc.com, are three bootstrappers who...
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Filed in archive by Shawn Hessinger on March 25, 2007
One last post on the topic that began our discussion, the advisability of a traditional business plan, particularly for a bootstrap start-up. While it still may be argued some sort of planning is a...
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Publisher and entrepreneur Jeff "Ski" Kinsey offers yet more suggestions for business mantras in our ongoing exercise. (To participate, see this post.) Jeff is the Big Kahuna at Throughput...
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There's still time to participate in our great exercise on creating business mantras. For the bootstrap entrepreneur and even for the larger company or well funded start-up, the mantra can be a...
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The suggestions for business mantras have already begun to pour in and I must say the entry from Buzzoodler Ron McDaniel puts me in mind of that tune from Jesus Christ Superstar. To understand why...
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While on the subject of a new approach to business planning started as a continuation of some thoughts posted by entrepreneur Pelle Braendgaard, one possibility is raised again by Guy Kawasaki in The...
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Here is what globe trotting entrepreneur Pelle Braendgaard wrote on the subject in this June 2005 post: Most people go out and buy or download business plan templates. There are millions of them out...
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Nathan kaiser of nPost.com, a site dedicated to interviews with start-up entrepreneurs, announces a new feature on the website offering jobs posted by emerging start-ups. In an e-mail last week,...
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