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by Shawn Hessinger on May 31, 2008
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Hope you'll all take the time to tune in tomorrow at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time when I'll be speaking with KasondraK of the Succeed in the M...
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Bootstrapping Trends
by Shawn Hessinger on May 31, 2008
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Whether you're bootstrapping in the music business as discussed in the previous post or in any other market you can think of, it's wise to remember...
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by Shawn Hessinger on May 29, 2008
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As many readers probably already know, I'll be doing an interview with KasondraK of the Succeed in the Music Business podcast at 8 p.m. EST Sunday on...
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Entrepreneurship
by Shawn Hessinger on May 27, 2008
For those of you new to this site, I thought I'd take just a few minutes to explain again what all of this is about and how it got started.
My name is Shawn Hessinger and though I currently work...
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Entrepreneurship
by Shawn Hessinger on May 26, 2008
growth in expectation of oversized profit or of an unsubstantiated outcome. This is putting the cart before the horse instead of allowing increasing revenue and a naturally evolving market to define ...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 24, 2008
Conversations about music bootstrapping in recent posts have me thinking in turn of another recent blog entry at Startup Africa revisiting Guy Kawasaki's thoughts on bootstrapping in general.
My...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 22, 2008
In his great recent post at OnStartups, HubSpots co-founder Dharmesh Shah discusses his decision to raise $17 million in VC funding for the company he bootstrapped with $500,000 of his own money.
De...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 21, 2008
The co-founder of HubSpot has written this great article over at OnStartups about why he chose to raise $17 million in Venture Funding despite a longtime commitment to bootstrapping.
With partner Br...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 20, 2008
A few weeks ago I posted about an exercise meant to look at how to bootstrap an online music label from a nuts and bolts perspective.
The post looked at a couple of ways that music could, and probab...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 19, 2008
Startup Africa recently revisited Guy Kawasaki's The Art of Bootstrapping post from his blog How To Change the World.
It's long been a favorite of mine, and here, for my money, are the four ...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on May 17, 2008
Miriam schwab over at BizzyWomen has this observationin her review of the first five points from Dane Carlson's often controversial 20 Things Not to Do Before Starting A Business.
Dane's pos...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 15, 2008
Sometimes the best sales force is an army of satisfied customers. Mike Smith makes a point along these same lines in his recent post "Word of Mouth Marketing: Thank your referrers."
I'...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 13, 2008
In the comment section of a recent blog post, Carrie asks:
What's behind your choice of Squidoo as a platform for your new site? Were there other ones you considered and rejected? Ones like Joom...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 12, 2008
So what does all this tipping point stuff mean when it comes to choosing your startup product or service?
After all, while marketer Seth Godin suggests you make you product remarkable, something as ...
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Bootstrapping Trends
by Shawn Hessinger on May 11, 2008
I got around to reading The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's book on the spread of ideas a bit later than most people, but cracked it this weekend and plan to post some commentary as I work my w...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on May 11, 2008
A post at the Global Security Challenge suggests these three alternatives to bootstrapping your new or existing business drawn in turn from an article in the Wall Street Journal:
• On line social len...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 11, 2008
I've been making a list of the kinds of music that, as an amateur musician, I could probably create with minimal or no help, at least in a kind of unplugged format.
So far I've come up with ...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 7, 2008
Gavin Bowman, director of V4 Solutions e-mails:
Hi Shawn,
Just read your post asking for suggestions for links relating to bootstrapping/entrepreneurship.
I run a weekly newsletter post on my bl...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on May 5, 2008
You don't need to wait until the time is right to launch your bootstrap venture.
In fact, as entrepreneur Greg Gianforte has pointed out, one of the best things about bootstrapping is that you c...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on May 2, 2008
So here we are at the beginning of another month of posts on bootstrapping here at BootStrapMe.com.
We'll be hearing from some readers this month who have made some suggestions about content.
A...
