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Bootstrapper News
by Shawn Hessinger on September 30, 2007
Received an e-mail last week from Bijoy Goswami at the BootStrapper's Network about the Austin Open4Business Conference October 10th at the Wyndham Garden Hotel.
Those in the Austin area around ...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on September 30, 2007
Facebook innovations aside, social networks can be important to bootstrap entrepreneurs operating on line even if they don't allow direct sale of your product or service.
Indeed, one of the main...
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Bootstrapper News
by Shawn Hessinger on September 30, 2007
Bootstrapping your computer application or for that matter other services on the Internet may soon be less about building your own website then about setting up shop within inexpensive high traffic s...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on September 29, 2007
Yea, I know. This is what bootstrapping is all about, right?
But a week of putting these ideas to use with my own bootstrap startup made me want to check off some of the most helpful again with som...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 28, 2007
A week of launching PostRanger.com has given me some insight into the need for patience with the bootstrap approach.
Sure, bootstrapping means you can start your business immediately, but with no bi...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on September 26, 2007
As most who regularly read this blog must know by now, yesterday we formally announced the launch of PostRanger.com.
A few more notes now on the new project which I hope will be more than just a bo...
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Bootstrapper News
by Shawn Hessinger on September 25, 2007
There's a new sheriff in town.
After many weeks of frustration, sleep deprivation and other bootstrapping pleasures I have finally given my creation life. (Boy, there's a diverse collection ...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on September 24, 2007
For musicians outside New York State or others who can't participate or have missed past installments of "The Bootstrap Music Series" discussed in the last post, here are some resources...
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Bootstrapper News
by Shawn Hessinger on September 23, 2007
Musicians in New York State will take the first of three free online courses this week designed to help them bootstrap a music career.
The courses are the third in a series from the Alliance of New ...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 23, 2007
Penelope Trunk has these things to say about one very specific kind of part-time bootstrapping, starting a business from your office cubicle.
It's a situation I'm more sympathetic about than...
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Entrepreneurship
by Shawn Hessinger on September 21, 2007
I wasn't quite prepared for this last week when I walked into the office and discovered the media outlet I work for is expanding into video on the web with sweat equity put in by the photo staff ...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on September 20, 2007
Mikem has created this great "lens" on business bootstrapping at Squidoo leading off with a story from The Book of Business Anecdotes about the humble beginnings of The New Yorker.
Some ot...
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Bootstrapper News
by Shawn Hessinger on September 19, 2007
I'm very excited this morning and wanted to break some of the silence on a new bootstrap venture I've only hinted at in recent posts.
Back in July, I announced the launch of the tentatively ...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 18, 2007
And while we're on the subject of definitions for business bootstrapping from our post yesterday, Matt Rogers founder of Aroxo has written another great one as a guest at Read/Write Web.
Matt ex...
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Entrepreneurship
by Shawn Hessinger on September 18, 2007
This post was inspired by a question from a member of our newly established Bootstrapper's Group on Yahoo!
And it occurred to me that a refresher on what bootstrapping means, at least within the...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on September 17, 2007
Please take a few minutes to consider joining our new Bootstrapper's Group on Yahoo!
Since announcing the group last week, we've had some interest including from Austin bootstrapper and eva...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 15, 2007
Last month I wrote a couple of posts about the part-time bootstrapper inspired by friend and fellow blogger Cristian Dorobentescue who has done his own writing on the trials and rewards of the lifest...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on September 14, 2007
Raj Dash has launched a Carnival of Bootstrappers on his evolving bootstrapping blog.
The latest had nine interesting entries not all directly on the subject of bootstrap entrepreneurship but certai...
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Entrepreneurship
by Shawn Hessinger on September 13, 2007
So, why would a company that's already made the leap from bootstrapped startup to successful business want to keep using the bootstrapping process as it moves forward?
Well, in the video below, ...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 12, 2007
As discussed previously here at BootStrapMe, blogging can be an easy and effective way to promote your business without the need for an expensive advertising budget.
As a matter of fact, bootstrapp...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 11, 2007
For the solo bootstrapper just starting out, time is more valuable than money. Putting the time into a new venture is often crucial in the early phases because you don't have the investment to ju...
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Philosophy
by Shawn Hessinger on September 10, 2007
A couple of days ago when posting a new mission statement here at BootStrapMe.com, I referred to this site as more of a revolution than a blog.
A similar revolutionary tone was certainly struck in t...
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Entrepreneurship
by Shawn Hessinger on September 9, 2007
Family financing can be one option when bootstrapping your startup venture according to this article from "Startup Nation".
But managing a family owned or operated business may require a d...
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services
by Shawn Hessinger on September 9, 2007
You can become a member of the new group by clicking here and creating a Yahoo! account if you don't yet have one.
For quite some time I've wanted to assemble an on line community with more ...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 7, 2007
Entrepreneur, consultant and blogger Tim Berry writes this post about the troubles with interesting Venture Capital firms with that first start-up and suggests bootstrapping as one option to get arou...
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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on September 6, 2007
I've just put together a long overdue mission statement for BootStrapMe.com and here are some of the high points.
The blog will endeavor to:
1. Share important lessons from real life bootstrap ...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 5, 2007
Outsourcing can be a key strategy when bootstrapping a business.
In an article in The Tennessean and then again on his "The Entrepreneurial Mind" blog Jeff Cornwall, director of the Belmon...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 4, 2007
The so-called weaknesses of a bootstrap business, lack of startup capital and resources, may in reality be strengths.
Check out these links on bootstrapper Greg Gianforte's philosophy for an ove...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 3, 2007
As in unbirthday ala Lewis Carroll.
For those readers who are not residents of the U.S., today marks a national holiday recognizing those who labor.
Like many Americans, however, I will spend at le...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 2, 2007
Here again is the great "bootstrapping principle" from the Darden Business School promotion video recommended by a random commenter on the Young Entrepreneur Forum:
Do not buy new what you...
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Bootstrapper Tips
by Shawn Hessinger on September 1, 2007
Shawn seems to be very active lately in providing check-up lists with great advice for bootstrapped entrepreneurs. And I feel that I'm kind of behind schedule in my guest poster "Job" h...
