No, this has nothing to do with tweaking your vintage version of PONG. However, again from Scott Burkett (thanks so much to one of our regular readers Randall who bookmarked this post and suggested...
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And here, from the same post as mentioned previously by Scott Burkett, are some additional bootstrapping tips. (Actually, unlike many of the tips we post here at BootStrapMe.com which often deal with...
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I've referred to this post before, but it still seems kind of strange to me. Beisel's entrepreneurial friend Pelle Braendgaard (check her blog on her bootstrapped business venture here) was...
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O.K., some extra thoughts here after I've had about a day to run all this through my cranial processor again. (I guess we'll call this "Bootstrapping the publishing biz (addendum)"...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST It is clear the newspaper business is living in denial. In a Sept. 17 post, blogger and publisher Joe Wikert says he has hopes that a column in his hometown paper, The...
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Like the music industry, the world of publishing, in all its forms, is undergoing a major transformation due in large part to the digital revolution. The change represents a major opportunity for...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST While the untamed frontier of bootstrap music start-up remains a wide open field, the traditional music industry has already begun to explore and be influenced by the...
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Back in 2002, music journalist Veronika Kalmar estimated a small record label could be started and operated for about three years with a little over $30,000 including release of three albums at a...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST And here are a few more from Rob Finn's post "75 Blog Posts to Read Before Talking to a VC". Meant as a primer on what VC's look for, these links could...
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It's interesting how many of blogger and venture capital associate Rob Finn's "75 Blog Posts to Read Before Talking to a VC" turn out to be an argument not to seek VC or other...
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Glad you asked. After several months of editing this blog, it occurs to me we could use a fresh explanation of what we're doing here and why. Simply put, bootstrapping is any one of various...
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Our Bootstrapper's Club is still growing and is now at 14 members including Creative Weblogging executive editor Anita Campbell. (Welcome Anita!) It would be great to get more readers of this...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST To continue with Montreal, Quebec-based entrepreneur and self-described "opportunity seeker and instigator" Ben Yoskovitz's practical no-nonsense list of...
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Some time ago Montreal, Quebec-based entrepreneur Ben Yoskovitz split his IGotNewsForYou blog in two making a split personality just another of Ben's problems. Ben was one of the earliest...
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A beta from Microsoft launched earlier this year offers free website hosting and design tools, business-branded e-mail accounts and domain name plus enhanced services that will eventually be...
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I got a phone call today which I suppose should have upset me but instead left me in a thoughtful mood. The call was from a woman representing a collection agency asking in rather demanding tones...
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by Shawn Hessinger on September 19, 2006
I have to credit blogger and entrepreneur Dan Marques for his posting on this one. scanR makes it possible for you to use your digital camera or camera phone to make copies of white boards, documents...
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by Shawn Hessinger on September 19, 2006
Not too long ago I was asked to do a list of my top five favorite blogs for what will probably be the November issue of Practical eCommerce. The request got me thinking about the many blogs I see......
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Bootstrappers! An interesting opportunity here, though a few weeks old, from the Bootstrapme.com mail bag: Dear Sir or madam, We are a manufacturer of portable display systems located in Guangzhou...
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Finally, some sensible advice on very early start-up for those of us with mouths to feed and Mortgages to pay until that new venture starts really humming. Ignore the first few graphs of this...
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I'm serious. I can't make this point strongly enough. Internet advertising is another story (after all it supports this website and a gazillion others like it) and under certain circumstances...
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