Biggest Gnome proves good example at BootStrapMe

The story of three central Illinois teenagers who launched their own computer repair and networking service and Dell distributorship serves as an example of start-up focusing largely on the entrepreneur's expertise. Cody Kretsinger, 18, Dustin Ellison, 18, and C.J. Jones, 17, graduates of Eisenhower High School, Decatur, used their combined experience working on computers to quickly expand beyond just sales with their company The Biggest Gnome. In true bootstrapping fashion, they avoided [...] Read More


It's your turn to contribute at BootStrapMe

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST So how about you? What's your purple cow? There may be no better way to develop a unique brand than to take one or more of your personal passions, political or otherwise, and turn them into a remarkable identity for your product or business just like Blackney and Kraus did. In fact, starting with a personal passion, something unique to you and that you believe in, also cuts to the [...] Read More


Download the Bootstrapper's Bible here at BootStrapMe

As regular readers of this blog and visitors to both our MyBlogLog and MySpace communities are no doubt aware, one of the quintessential guides to the bootstrapper business model remains Seth Godin's The Bootstrapper's Bible. Download you're free PDF version here, from the Kauffman Foundation's bootstrapper resource site or from links on one of these two posts at BootStrapMe.com The free 103 page online version is half mantra/half manifesto and relates the [...] Read More


Websites: Just Get By??? at Bizinformer

I'm reading Seth's latest post How to create a good enough website and just the title is enough to send me over the edge. I struggle EVERY DAY to instill a "go above and beyond" attitude in my children. Just "good enough" is the same as saying "just enough to get by." Do we really want to be known as the person who does the bare minimum? Of course not. However, I have [...] Read More


A Deadline Looms at Bizinformer

Thanksgiving is this week and as the holiday fast approaches with all the added chores associated with making it memorable, I have one final project I must complete for a customer. At home, as we pack to move, there are too many distractions; Cleveland Browns football, packing boxes, kid's homework, cooking and cleaning, the Sunday paper, Seth Godin's book that I just brought home, The Big Moo. So I have removed myself [...] Read More