Sometimes the bootstrapping process can seem a little like the equivalent of reanimating a corpse built out of spare parts ripped off from a graveyard.
Sounds like fun, huh?
Still, the seven golden ...
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(here are the rest of the important points we've considered while preparing for our upcoming bootstrap business launch)
• Scalability
Compared to the traditional bu...
As promised at the beginning of this month, a new bootstrap business project is about to launch here at BootStrapMe.com and I couldn't be more excited.
As the pieces have been slowly put into pla...
In line with our past seven posts, Romanian entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu sends this from a 2005 World Bank report on efforts to encourage entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe.
Eastern European an...
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Dorobanescu also blogs that his little enterprise is making steady progress.
Yep, my business is growing. It went from the stage I could run it in the evening to the sta...
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With his girlfriend handling additional sales and her sister doing web design, Dorobanescu said he was able to successfully keep his business operating.
To a traditional...
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While his colleagues took the offer, Dorobanescu refused, preferring to continue his side business and existing full-time job
He soon found he had a problem, however.
H...
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In a May 2006 post, Dorobanescu explained his business provides an "opportunity enhancement" that full-time jobs just don't offer. He wrote:
Entrepreneur...
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Building energybyte.com, Dorobanescu bootstrapped every step of the way.
Keeping a good relationship with his former employer, he used that company as a source for ear...
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Internet entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu estimates the equivalent of just $300 would be enough money to start a software firm in Bacharest today.
Dorobanescu ought to...
Just 17 years after Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu died in front of a firing squad ending 42 years of Communist rule, a Bucharest Internet Entrepreneur says opportunities in his eastern European ...
Have you spent way too long behind one of these?
I took this shot while testing a digital camera on my way home from a very long day at the office.
(I'm one of the lucky ones. Work is only abou...
And lest I be accused after the past two posts of being too stridently anti-investment, consider what one Venture Capital advisor had to say about the importance of leanness to investors while comment...
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So, you've made up your mind to resist the temptation of accepting big outside investment for your little start-up company. How do you go about financing your busines...
Far from a pep talk for entrepreneurs on how they can accomplish their goals even without big outside investment dollars, Ed Zimmer of The Entrepreneur Network actually recommends avoiding those inves...
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Experts say the trend toward business with social conscience is widespread including an increasing move toward "fair trade" encouraging fair prices, fair labor ...
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Styles says the rate paid to the women for their work is four times the usual payment for artisans in their community and has already allowed her sister-in-law to move in...
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First, Styles hired a publicist to gain media exposure for her product after another designer referred her.
That publicist in turn led her to a patent attorney who helpe...
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In fact, Styles said it was not even necessary to pay the models seen in the photos on the company's website launched in late January and currently the source of most...
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Starting any type of business locally seemed problematic due to the economic climate.
"It's hard to think of a business you could start in a country that is so ...
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According to Wikipedia, Santiago de Cali (Cali for short) is the capital of Valle de Cauca, one of the most important of 32 "departments" making up the Republic...
After 16 years in sales, Shelli Styles, Bath, OH, was happy with a
rewarding career and wasn't looking to start a new business.
However, when Styles discovered a way to help her husband's po...
Listening to an interview yesterday with Michael Shermer, founder of The Skeptics Society and publisher of Skeptic magazine, inspired this thought as a possible middle ground between evolution and int...
I've carped before about Venture Capitalist Brad Feld's top ten list for bootstrapping business, particularly number two.
To be sure, Feld has experience as a bootstrapper. As he explains:
(...
Take a look at Wikipedia's definition of scalability. Here's just a portion:
In telecommunications and software engineering,...a desirable property of a system, a network or a process, which ...
Back to the subject of Seth's Purple Cow notions, one other point must be made on the subject of to whom we are marketing.
I've been thinking about this a lot too lately as our business model...
Marketing guru Seth Godin suggests brands and product messages today must be as outrageous and attention getting as, say, a Purple Cow.
Meanwhile blogger Brad Williamson of Small Business Branding sa...
Bath Township, Ohio, entrepreneur Shelli Styles has launched a bootstrap business that is improving the lives of her husband's family and a growing community of women in Cali, Colombia.
The women...
So, you've decided to give working at home a try, at least in the beginning of your new bootstrapped business.
Here then, in honor of fellow business blogger and entrepreneur Ben Yoskovitz's ...
Though he rented a Madison Avenue address to give his start-up credibility, entrepreneur Jeremy Barbera launched his direct-marketing company Metro Services Group Inc. at his living room table in 1987...
Please don't peek behind our paper. There's a lot of work underway on a brand new project connected to BootStrapMe.com and I hope to be announcing it within the next month.
All I can tell you...
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