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How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 7) Title: How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 7)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper News by Shawn Hessinger on November 30, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 6) Title: How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 6)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper News by Shawn Hessinger on November 30, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 5) Title: How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 5)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper News by Shawn Hessinger on November 30, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 4) Title: How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 4)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper News by Shawn Hessinger on November 30, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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 ...

 

How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 3) Title: How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 3)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper News by Shawn Hessinger on November 30, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 2) Title: How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 2)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper News by Shawn Hessinger on November 29, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 1) Title: How to bootstrap an online music network (Part 1)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper News by Shawn Hessinger on November 29, 2006

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...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 11) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 11)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 29, 2006

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...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 10) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 10)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 29, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 9) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 9)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 29, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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')...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 8) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 8)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 29, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 7) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 7)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 29, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 6) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 6)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 28, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 5) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 5)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 28, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 4) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 4)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 28, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 3) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 3)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 28, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 2) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 2)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 28, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 1) Title: How to bootstrap a bakery business (Part 1)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 28, 2006

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...

 

What's your definition of an entrepreneur? Title: What's your definition of an entrepreneur?
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship by Shawn Hessinger on November 18, 2006

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...

 

How to seize an opportunity Title: How to seize an opportunity
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship by Shawn Hessinger on November 16, 2006

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...

 

How bootstrap entrepreneurs adapt to change Title: How bootstrap entrepreneurs adapt to change
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship by Shawn Hessinger on November 16, 2006

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...

 

Bakery bootstrappers (Preview) Title: Bakery bootstrappers (Preview)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 14, 2006

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 ...

 

U.S. News launches small business blog Title: U.S. News launches small business blog
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Filed in archive Entrepreneurship by Shawn Hessinger on November 11, 2006

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...

 

Bootstrapping with creative ventures Title: Bootstrapping with creative ventures
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Tips by Shawn Hessinger on November 11, 2006

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...

 

Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talents (Part 7) Title: Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talents (Part 7)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 10, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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,...

 

Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talents (Part 6) Title: Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talents (Part 6)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 10, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talent (Part 5) Title: Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talent (Part 5)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 10, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

Artist uses bootsrapping to showcase talents (Part 4) Title: Artist uses bootsrapping to showcase talents (Part 4)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 8, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talents (Part 3) Title: Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talents (Part 3)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 8, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talents (Part 2) Title: Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talents (Part 2)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 7, 2006

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 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...

 

Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talent (Part 1) Title: Artist uses bootstrapping to showcase talent (Part 1)
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Profile by Shawn Hessinger on November 7, 2006

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...

 

Fresh blogrolls! Get 'em while they're hot! Title: Fresh blogrolls! Get 'em while they're hot!
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Filed in archive Bootstrapper Tips by Shawn Hessinger on November 4, 2006

(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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