Filed in archive Entrepreneurship by Shawn Hessinger on June 9, 2006

When it comes to starting a new business venture, the issue of financing is always raised. However, an increasing number of entrepreneurs question whether the traditional model of start-up through investment dollars and small business loans is the best or even a desirable way to proceed. The alternative is bootstrapping, a method of start-up using little or no outside investment, and is the subject of this web log. A comprehensive explanation of the origin of the term and its broad implications, not only in the world of business, but also in the fields of computing, linguistics, physics, biology, electronics, statistics, law and phylogeny, can be found here at a link provided courtesy of fellow blogger Guy Kawasaki. Your comments and suggestions for future posts are always welcome.

Related Entries:

Great bootstrapping resources on Squidoo - 20 September 2007
Patience and the art of bootstrapping - 27 September 2007
Bootstrapping happiness is... - 05 October 2007
Be a bootstrapping star - 16 October 2007
Bootstrapping among top Forbes business concerns - 11 December 2007
Bootstrapping is doing more with less - 16 January 2008
Bootstrapping the next Starbucks - 26 January 2008
Bootstrapping a print solution - 16 February 2008
Ingredients vary for bootstrapping success (Part 1) - 12 July 2008

Main | Why the SBA may not be th... »

Permalink: What is bootstrapping?

Tags: bootstrapping entrepreneur

Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/24018

Addthis

Ask

Blinklist

del.icio.us

Digg

Fark

Facebook

Google

Lycos

Ma.gnolia

Mr Wong

Netscape

Netvousz

Newsvine

StumbleUpon

Slashdot

Tailrank

Technorati

Wink

Yahoo

Vote for What is bootstrapping?:

Currently 2.40/10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Rating: 2.40 out of 5 vote(s) cast.

Response from: business loan (07/25/07 6:08am)

Starting a small business can be a strong challenge. I appreciate the new alternative but i think the term "bootstrapping" is a little bit too complex in this context. Ok, it can have great implications but this is after you get your business on it's feet. Where does this take us? Back to the traditional business loans i guess.