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Of course, a site allowing online download of independent music is nothing new and dates back to mp3.com and other sites, but what makes n10ah different is the Human Touc...
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returning to the drawing board, I decided to create an online music network in the broadest possible sense using existing free online platforms by combining blogs, commun...
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The launch did garner a limited response. For example, Juan of Switzerland-based JCR Recording Service, home of Blue Lake Records releasing a unique roster of European ro...
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Less than a month later, after looking around for a bootstrap business that could be started up and developed using this blog as a method for commenting on my progress I ...
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But the roots of n10ah go back to June when I commented in one post about an observation made by Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo in a podcast interview with Greg Galant of Ve...
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I want to mention in the next couple of posts what process I used to develop this new business idea and how it evolved.
Since the new business has only just come into be...
I'm not sure I really know the answer to this one yet.
However, after half a year writing this blog, I decided to take some of what I've been learning and put it to good use.
The result is t...
In his explanation of why bootsrapping may be the perfect solution for start-up business, author and entrepreneur Greg Gianforte addresses many of the same issues Rapoport and Powell discovered throug...
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Rapoport also says he may be on the verge of changing another earlier plan to concentrate on growing the business by opening multiple locations since wholesale demands ha...
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But when the station, pleased with the results (scroll down and check out the link to Haika's Kitchen on the page promoting their new mascot 'Pat the Beaver')...
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Rapoport and Powell outfitted the new location with used bakery equipment they had gradually purchased over the past two years and have not looked back.
Their business h...
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In the end, Rapoport found that the businesses earnings were lower than those projected in his business plan but still profitable in a less expensive location.
Though he...
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In retrospect, the change in plan for the bake shop also proved an excellent example of the dangers in what start-up expert Guy Kawasaki describes as forecasting from the...
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In his "Start-up Financing-Why & How to Avoid the Investment Community" Ed Zimmer of The Entrepreneur Network suggests:
Scale down your expectations. You d...
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Whichever way it happened, by March 2005 the couple found themselves looking at a 1,600 square foot space in a strip mall south of Bethlehem, PA where the initial plan in...
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From the tape, Rapoport took the concept that there was a difference between self-employment and creation of a business that does not depend on the owner for day-to-day o...
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The couple's recipe for success has proven as delicious as customers seem to find the pecan pies, macaroons, apricot almond squares, ginger pound cake and other goodi...
For the software developer, web 2.0 entrepreneur or virtual professional, getting started in business can be as easy (and as inexpensive) as gaining access to the Internet.
Texas-based virtual assist...
Fellow blogger and director of operations for Grasshopper New Media Ben Yoskovitz is working on yet another TOP SECRET project and has solicited responses from the online entrepreneurial community for...
Bootstrap entrepreneurs must not only be prepared to change direction quickly in the case of an obstacle as explained in the previous post.
They must also be ready to seize an opportunity when it pre...
Sometimes things simply don't go as planned.
One of the benefits of bootstrap entrepreneurship is the ability to adapt quickly to that change when it comes free of the demands of creditors or fin...
It's a common strategy when starting the next great software venture.
But how can bootstrapping business techniques help bricks and mortar entrepreneurs build more traditional businesses without ...
There's a new entry into the small business blogosphere launched by U.S. News & World Report.
Money and Business Associate Editor Renuka Rayasam is piloting the new venture which the news mag...
In line with our previous seven posts, artist and entrepreneur Tony D. Clark of "Success from the Nest" has some interesting things to say about launching a creative venture.
Of course, for...
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Like montana-based bootstrapper Greg Gianforte, who gave away the first
prototype of the software from his company RightNow Technologies Inc. to anyone who would use it,...
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Like many in the bootstrapping business community, Prestileo points out that it is hard to know where her work might eventually lead her.
As an example, Prestileo points...
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From her small bedroom studio, Prestileo keeps in touch with a far flung network of artists around the world seeking feedback for her work through an online community cal...
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Prestileo's heroes, aside from the writers and illustrators of her favorite
mainstream comics, are other web based artists who have similarly used the Internet to ge...
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Prestileo's workspace is a small desk in her bedroom where she makes Pencil
drawings on paper, scans them in to a small PC workstation and applies color and other enh...
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Prestileo has been drawing since the second grade and has always been sought after for her artwork.
"I was the kid everyone came to and said, 'Shell, can you dr...
The bootstrap philosophy has been used by many entrepreneurs to build thriving businesses with little or no beginning investment.
The philosophy helped bootstrapper Andrew S. Field, grow PrintingforL...
(Editor's Note: I've updated the blogroll under Our Editors Recommend (scroll down on the right) to provide a more comprehensive guide than ever before to some of the best and most interesting...
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