Telephone calls are a fact of life for the busy entrepreneur. The stereotype has the small businessman glued to his iPhone, either texting or taking a call every couple of minutes, or whipping it ou…
Behind every entrepreneur there is a drive of some sort, a vision of how things should be that has inspired them to strike out on their own and launch their small business. Getting from point A to poi…
Over the past 10 years, the Microsoft co-founder's charity (The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has committed $4.5 billion to vaccines. Bill Gates promises $10 billion for vaccines to the …
One lesson that is hard to learn for many small business owners, particularly those with grand visions of future success, is that complexity kills, while simplicity succeeds. Entrepreneurs don't u…
J.D. at Get Rich Slowly recently took an interesting look at the pros and cons of self-employment. His perspective is especially interesting because his blog is not about bootstraping – or any other k…
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Small Business Trends had a cute piece recently on a viral marketing campaign that included mailing chocolate covered grasshoppers to some 5,000 marketing gurus with a simple message: if …
Like many high pressure careers, bootstrappers face a problem that can sometimes be difficult. It is a problem for which no pat answers or prefabricated solutions are available. The problem: maintaini…
Brad Feld had an interesting piece recently that I thought my BootStrapper friends would smile about. It was on the relationship between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.When I think about who I …
Black in Business ran in encouraging piece earlier this month on how to develop a positive outlook on your business activities.
It's a simple message. Manage your weaknesses; we all know that. Bu…
Jack and Suzy Welch over at BusinessWeek had a good article a few days ago on the role of loyalty in corporate culture – especially in hard times. I thought it was useful to consider in the context of…