Here are some bootstrapping tips especially designed for the Halloween holiday. Read them and apply them to your own business venture IF YOU DARE!!! 1. Don't be afraid of competition-As a...
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Spirit DSP is a bootstrap company now employing 140 and with an established global brand. Read this news release at Real Time Community about the company's latest accomplishments: Fall VON Show,...
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A big problem in business startup and operation remains the possibility of being crushed by debt. When drafting a business plan a few years ago for a small community newspaper, debt was one of my...
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The importance of social networking to business is well known today. As Howard Reingold and Associates observes: Online Social Networking is a key part of marketing and management strategy for most...
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Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Though product is the focus of many startups with funding often needed to get that product to market, the sales focused bootstrap approach may require...
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In our last post we looked at how and why bootstrappers change the world. But in his latest entry at the Exponential Entrepreneur blog Kevin Koym, founder and CEO of Enterprise Teaming LLC, looks at...
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No, this isn't necessarily a reference to Guy Kawasaki's blog. Just a statement of fact, and something I was thinking about on the way home tonight. Here are five solid reasons why, but first...
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Entrepreneur Bernard Lunn, co-founder of both IQ Resource and iYogi and a player in the pre-Internet creation of Prestel, has a much narrower view of bootstrapping then most. Here's an overview...
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Munching on a BLT in a corner booth at an eatery near my office Monday, I started to think about what Seth Godin says about marketing to the edge. I've been working in this northeastern...
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So you own a blog or other website and are trying to increase its traffic and its ranking with search engines. Well, you could pay for a sponsored search on Yahoo! to take you to the top of the......
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When thinking about bootstrapping a company, supporters and critics of the process alike seem to focus on the shoestring startup. Doing things on the cheap can certainly be part of the earliest...
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The Zillion Business Marketing blog has these suggestions for home-based internet startups requiring little or no initial investment. Be sure to pick one that matches your abilities: 1. Affiliate...
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Sramana Mitra has written this great post about bootstrapping trends. However, there's some question in my mind whether it's ever really gone out of style. Who are today's bootstrappers,...
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We've focused a lot here at BootStrapMe.com on starting a business for next to nothing. By definition such startups must be small and lean using mostly existing tools and services and plenty of...
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A new film by the granddaughter of the man behind Mickey Mouse tells the story of a bootstrapping startup that launched a revolution. "In a relatively short period of time, Pixar went from a...
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Here are some great bootstrapping suggestions from a diverse group of business leaders in an article from the Kansas City Star. The article covers a recent workshop on bootstrapping held by the...
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An article that has been floating around the blogosphere presumably since first appearing on Advancing Women the "International Women's Community" again raises the question of whether...
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Steve Pavlina often tells the story of launching his website StevePavlina.com with just $9 needed to register the domain name. Dane Carlson suggests not spending too much time trying to come up with...
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Greg Gianforte, president of RightNow Technologies, a bootstrapped information technology firm in Bozeman, Montana, is at it again. In 1997, Gianforte began bootstrapping a company that by 2002 was...
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John Casper at MSN Finance has these observations about A Million Bootstraps, the book on microcredit philanthropy from Tulsa business man Phil Smith and microcredit guru Eric Thurman. Microcredit,...
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Travis Northcutt at flatworldblog and also a contributor on PostRanger.com's Globilization stream, writes this great post about Startup Weekend, a global craze that sticks entrepreneurial types...
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