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A Day In The Life Of A Twintern
in Wangtam, on July 12, 2009
...umers Increasingly Opt for Free Entertainment Alternatives
• Feeling Tweety in 'Web Site Story'
• Microsoft VP says Google's playing defense with Chrome OS
• Bloggers test boundaries...
Someday, I'll Eat Peanut Butter
in Allergies, on June 30, 2009
...peanut allergies. I can't exactly say I miss it, because after a while you just get used to the alternatives. Besides, it's not exactly the healthiest of bread spreads, and with the recent pea...
Windows 7 Pricing announced
in The CIO Weblog, on June 25, 2009
...dividuals. Businesses have paid IT staff, or can hire IT staff, who can provide options and suggest alternatives to extend their existing platform or move to a new one. Most individual consumers are s...
Taking a Chance
in Next Nine Months, on June 19, 2009
... It was terrible. Worse every time. We feared we were running out of time and started looking into alternatives.
We ended up getting pregnant once more, only this time it wasn't planned and we w...
Tasty Alternatives to Milk
in Allergies, on May 21, 2009
...ntolerance, dairy allergies, or simply do not like the taste of milk, here are some possible milk alternatives you might want to try:
1. Soy Milk - obviously not suitable for those with allergies t...
Finally
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...er for most purposes to justify business adoption. Waiting a couple of years might present you with alternatives which are worth the transition. Will you handcuff your organization to Windows simply...
The Balance of Life
in BootStrapMe, on May 10, 2009
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: maintaining a balance between your entrepreneurial endevears and the rest of life.
You do have a life , do...
Caribbean Benefits as Tourists Flee Mexico
in Wandalust, on May 6, 2009
...vel agents in the U.S. say they are aggressively recommending Jamaica and the Dominican Republic as alternatives to Cancun and other Mexican beach resorts because they are close and affordable. There ...
Seagate Announces Replica Drive
in On Storage, on May 1, 2009
... not to back up data," writes the NYT's Stephen Williams . "There are less expensive alternatives to the Seagate product, if that makes sense in your situation. But avoiding the issue i...
How Sound is Your Business Plan?
in BootStrapMe, on April 27, 2009
I recently reported at BizPlanHacks on some research that shows that business plans don't get start-ups funded by VC's. But what do we care?
A business plan takes on a whole new meaning in the context of a bootstrapped business. PE Hub 's Joanna Glasner rightly points out that the...
本周推荐阅读
in WappBlog, on April 25, 2009
7款Windows Live Writer插件推荐 （点击查看详细介绍）：
Flickr4Writer ， xPollinate ， Twitter Notify ， DiggThis ， Tag Generator ， Text Template ， Screen Capture
Google News Timeline 在线时间表搜索 （点击查看范例）
5款免费视频格式转换软件 （点击查看详细介绍）：
Quick Media Converter ， Super Video Converter ， Any Video Converter，Medi...
Resources for Women Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on April 19, 2009
Adam over at Blogtrepreneur points out the prominent role women play in the bootstrap community and the larger world of entrepreneurs today. He uses suffrage as a point of reference; 90 years ago women couldn't even vote. "You've come a long way, baby." (Hope that doesn't...
Is all this free sustainable?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 16, 2009
...e, say, electricity, in their utility. They are just fun for most people, and all those people have alternatives when it comes to fun.
For businesses, they may be genuinely useful. But the real quest...
Did Vista jump the shark?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 14, 2009
...ow us all how crazy and outmoded the traditional upgrade cycle has been, even as newer, less costly alternatives have sprung up in the news? Microsoft picked the worst possible time to blow a Windows ...
What is up with Enterprise 2.0, anyway?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 13, 2009
...y does enable a positive business outcome, or even that it simply does so more efficiently than the alternatives. Really?
I personally consider e-mail to be one of the best examples of why you do n...
4月8号新web 2.0推荐
in WappBlog, on April 8, 2009
(1) CommutePrice - 用于计算你外出旅行，开车的花费的网络应用。 (2) GardenPlanner - 用于设计你自己的花园，可以铺路、加栅栏、用各种各样的花草数目装饰。 (3) Setup-Tableware - 如果你不知道如何为一个很重要的晚餐摆桌子的话，不知道刀叉呀葡萄酒呀怎么放的话，可以看看这个网站，将会叫你如何摆一个体面的桌子。 (4) Visible Body - 交互式人体3D工具。可以让你看到人体主要器官的3D模型。提供3D控制和动态搜索功能。 (5)5款可以替代Quicken的免费个人财务管理软件（详细测评介绍看 这里 ）： ...
Before You Start a Business, Do an Internship
in BootStrapMe, on April 4, 2009
Before you start a business, you can gain a lot of insight into you new industry or market by doing an internship in a business in the same sector of your economy. That was the advice of Karen E. Klein at BusinessWeek last month. She called it an "inexpensive way to avoid mistakes when you la...
The Value-Price Relationship
in BootStrapMe, on March 31, 2009
Entrepreneur had a good piece by Barry Farber earlier this month on how the relationship between value and price can make or break your business. I remember seeing this statement above a local printer's office:
Price, Service, Quality
(Please pick two)
If you choose to lower your pr...
The Personality of an Entrepreneur
in BootStrapMe, on March 25, 2009
Young Entrepreneur had a piece recently on entrepreneurial personality. It was an interesting look at the importance of matching personality to your job function.
The article interviews consultant Bill Wagner of Accord Management Systems. Word to the wise, we can't change our personality bu...
Private Student Loans Network
in Wangtam, on March 24, 2009
...re Photoshop Alternatives and Web-based Photo editing
• Facebook and the downsides of software as a service
• Meebo Brings Interactive Ad Platform To Community IM Partners ...
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Sticks
in Do you like to cook?, on March 24, 2009
... If you've been using I Can't Believe It's Not Butter bread spread as a healthier alternatives to butter for use in your baking and cooking recipes, here's some good news: they no...
VC's Overrated...
in BootStrapMe, on March 19, 2009
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 spend most of my time with, it's entrepreneurs. When I think about who really drives innovati...
Tie It Back
in Busy with Style, on March 13, 2009
...pulling up your hair, putting it in a cap or vowing to stay in until it has passed - there are chic alternatives. I love scarves - so Ali McGraw and boho chic. This scarf by Diane Von Furstenburg ...
Managing IT costs
in The CIO Weblog, on March 11, 2009
...pear as it happens.
The best thing you can do is adopt the techniques and profit models that those alternatives are showing you internally, so that you can provide the same services just as easily, a...
Confessions of a Startup Addict
in BootStrapMe, on March 11, 2009
Ivan Widjaya over at Noobpreneur had a cute piece Monday. He confesses that he's addicted to starting new businesses.
Ivan looks at the symptoms of his addiction (with an eye toward helping to decide if you share his problem). Then he looks at himself as a case study. I started dozens of busi...
Music fans do not want quality
in Digital Music - The Future, on March 5, 2009
...found that many students at a uni prefer the hiss and crackle of low quality MP3s over the lostless alternatives!
He goes on to compare it to audiophiles who like the "crackles" the imperfe...
The Bootstrapper's Fable: Is a VC Hunting You?
in BootStrapMe, on February 28, 2009
Scott Dig , a bootstrapper himself, had an instructive little fable for the bootstrappers of the world earlier this month. I won't retell it in its entirety, but the moral is that we often lose sight of our most valuable assets.
Scott's message is simple: as a Bootstrapper, your most valua...
Can VMware hold on?
in The CIO Weblog, on February 25, 2009
...ld have been already. Will it be able to survive this latest onslaught, or should you be looking at alternatives for your virtualization platform before the rug comes out? It's a complex question ...
Due Diligence Comes in Flavors
in BootStrapMe, on February 16, 2009
Sometimes it's easy to forget that there's more than one type of due diligence. At the start-up stage, remembering to do both legal due diligence and business due diligence is critical.
Scott Dig posted a good description of the two type of due diligence earlier this month. He's ...
Valentine's Day Can Be Pro-diabetics!
in Daily Diabetic, on February 14, 2009
... look for sugar-free products. Moreover, you can make your own sweet goodies by using natural sugar alternatives such as ZSweet , Truvia or PureVia .
I have tried all three and I love ZSweet th...
Seth Godin on Succeeding in a Down Market
in BootStrapMe, on February 9, 2009
Mashable's Andrew Warner recently interviewed marketing guru Seth Godin and talked about how to succeed in a down market.
Seth's advice is especially powerful for bootstrappers in this economy. And it's also encouraging. Among his tips for start-up businesses in this economy: Recogni...
20 Bootstrapping Tips
in BootStrapMe, on February 4, 2009
Evan Carmichael has a good piece today that looks at ways you can bootstrap. What it amounts to is 20 tips for succeeding as a bootstrapper.
The tips are basic: Hire people on a part time basis
Automate wherever possible
Don't quit your day job (and we've said that before)
Form ...
Social media and social entrepreneurship
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on January 31, 2009
...nt searching: I believe Facebook, Twitter and the other similar community driven websites are cheap alternatives to do this.
Here you can also read an article which highlight applications of socia...
17 款可以替代 Google Notebook 的笔记本应用
in Wangtam, on January 31, 2009
【商务型】
• Jjot
• Microsoft OneNote
• Springnote
【学生用】
• Grade Genie
• NoteCentric
• Notely
• NoteMesh
Peugeot-Ausstellung in Sochaux
in Oldtimer & Classic Cars, on January 29, 2009
...tammen aus den Jahren zwischen 1933 und 1996 und zeichnen somit ein gutes und in gewisser Weise alternatives Bild der Firmengeschichte. Was wäre wenn? - so könnte man durchaus fragen, denn zahlreiche ...
Building a Start Up from Scratch
in BootStrapMe, on January 21, 2009
Evan Carmichael over at the Young Entrepreneur blog has a nice basic step-by-step on how to start out with nothing and build yourself a start up business. Here are the steps that I took. This process helped me build my business with $0 in startup capital. Hopefully you can learn from my experien...
Tofutti Soy-Based Dairy Free Alternatives
in Allergies, on January 15, 2009
Here's another product that will surely be welcome on the tables of those who have milk allergies, intolerances, or simple prefer to live dairy-free: Tofutti Better than Cream Cheese . They are egg-free, too, but are soy-based, so if you have soy intolerances, obviously, they are not suitab...
Unemployment Benefits? One of the Risks of Going it Alone...
in BootStrapMe, on January 15, 2009
National Public Radio had an interesting story yesterday that highlighted the plight of many people involved in entrepreneurship and home-based business. If their business fails, they are just as unemployed as a laid off autoworker. But they are not eligible for unemployment benefits. Most people ...
BPA-Free Baby Bottles
in The Parenting Weblog, on January 14, 2009
....
What to do while the experts are debating? Play safe and use glass bottles. Or look for BPA-free alternatives. If you search for "BPA-free baby bottles" in Google, you'll get many lea...
The Place of Loyalty in Your New Company's Values
in BootStrapMe, on January 12, 2009
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 building a new business.
Your business is off the ground and you've hired a few people. The...
Food Allergy Safe Recipes from 'Must Follow Recipes'
in Allergies, on December 28, 2008
...ree from milk, eggs, and peanuts. The recipes sounds like the "normal" recipes, but using alternatives to these food allergens instead. For example, check out her Chewy Non-Peanut Butter Br...
Downtime incidents
in Googlestack, on December 27, 2008
Pingdom has a quite entertaining article about relative safety of online operations at data centers. My personal favorite?
In August, an update to SiteMeter's script (websites can have it included on their pages to get visitor statistics) started crashing popular blogs like Gawker, Lifehac...
Fear Not! In a Recession, Fear Will Kill Your Business...
in BootStrapMe, on December 25, 2008
Brian Solis over at TechCrunch had an excellent piece early this week on the negativity and fear that comes with a recession. While bootstrappers are probably a little less prone to fear and panic than most other business people, Brian 's advice is still timely.
A tidbit from the piece: S...
三鹿破产“身后事”
in Wangtam, on December 25, 2008
• 三鹿破产"身后事"
• iPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day
• 资讯资讯 土豆网秘密布局游戏频道 近期将上线
• Top 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand's Reputation
• 20 Ways to Fill Your Time Online Without the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam
• Intel insists Atom only for Intel chipsets, does not want to s...
What is a Bootstrapper?
in BootStrapMe, on December 24, 2008
...Dave Cheong had an interesting piece this week on bootstrapping. It was a nice, simple review of the concept.
"A bootstrapper is someone who uses his own time, money and resources to get a bus...
KFS at Quantcast
in Googlestack, on December 23, 2008
With people claiming Quantcast is using Hadoop, and not giving a credit to the KFS it is necessary to give more details about the story, and not so surprisingly, the details are available instantly, and here they are (these details refer to Quantcast KFS deployment)
Two deployments:
- ...
Open-source alternatives to BigTable
in Googlestack, on December 22, 2008
...e underlying concepts in an earlier post, and here's the link . Now on to the open-source free alternatives.
As of present day, there are two open source projects underway, which are based o...
What? Tamiflu is Showing Resistance This Flu Season?!
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 22, 2008
...Roche - is the most popular used to treat influenza. The good news however is that there are other alternatives to Tamiflu that doctors can use: such as Relenza or a combination of Tamiflu and an old...
True Hot Deals
in Wangtam, on December 17, 2008
...tware
• Dooblet: Find alternatives to everything!
• Twit or Fit?
• iScripts.com
• Hey, what's that?
• Simple Bug and Issue Tracking | Sifter
• Adam - Advanced Dynamic Application for c...
Are You Successful...?
in BootStrapMe, on December 12, 2008
Dan Schawbel over at Personal Branding Blog has an insightful interview online at the moment Romanus Wolter , "the Kick Start Guy." And Wolter makes what I think is a very important point for today's world: you don't get to define success all by yourself.
"A person is su...
Cash Flow: Solving the Problem of How to Get it Started
in BootStrapMe, on December 3, 2008
I saw a post last month that I like by Yaro Starak over at Entrepreneurs-Journey.Com about getting your cash flow started.
Lack of cash flow when you first get started in a business can be a major obstacle. Often the solution is a catch-22: you get a second job to bring in money for the start-up ...
Augenheilkunde: Alternative Mittel und Verfahren
in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on November 27, 2008
... "Bei APONEO finden Sie auch Alternatives für die Gesundheit ihrer Augen" - so beginnt eine Mitteilung der Versandapotheken. Selbst an solchen lapidaren Feststellungen lässt sich ablesen, da...
Free Guide to Social Media for Small Business
in BootStrapMe, on November 25, 2008
A Facebook friend of mine, Anita Campbell, pointed me toward a new free guide to social media for Small Business . The book is "Let's Talk: Social Media for Small Business," by John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. I just finished reading it and recommend you check it out. The guid...
Minnesota State Colleges to Offer 25% of Classes Online
in The Online Universities Weblog, on November 25, 2008
...g edge of online education." Sounds like a smart way to give traditional learners a few online alternatives....
Amazon adds content distribution to Web Services options
in The CIO Weblog, on November 18, 2008
...ons for non-web-based SaaS offerings have lagged in responsiveness and usability behind self-hosted alternatives. It's possible that Cloudfront could find a niche caching data and improving perfor...
Morningstar and Barron's Survey Highlights An Upward Trend In Alternatives
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 11, 2008
...in importance versus traditional investments," Deutsch added. "Recent poor performance of alternatives has not caused advisors or institutions to question their usage."
Among the surve...
Photoshop CS4; at a glance.
in Digital Shot, on October 31, 2008
...Everyone knows that if you take photos; you use photoshop. There are competitors, alternatives, but none of them can quite top the behemoth that is Photoshop. Fortunatly, Adobe are not like a lot of d...
E&HT supply chain should become like apparel supply chains...
in Supplychainer, on October 24, 2008
...- rapid what-if capabilities, shared with their customers and suppliers, in which they can evaluate alternatives
What do you think?
...
EC2 comes out of beta
in The CIO Weblog, on October 23, 2008
...ut whether they come out next year or not, they are certainly on the way, and there are third-party alternatives already extant to fill those holes. The SLA of 99.95% availability is just okay, but it...
Managing crisis, the Toyota Way!
in Supplychainer, on October 23, 2008
...them without doing anything; also empowered personnel equipped with knowledge can find new ways and alternatives for cost reduction in their activities.
Not bad, right?
...
17 款足可替代 eBay 的网拍网站
in Wangtam, on October 22, 2008
【普通的网拍网站】
✔ Auction.com
✔ Bidtopia.com
✔ Bonanzle.com
✔ eBid.net
✔ ePier.com
✔ iOffer.com
✔ OnlineAuction.com
✔ Overstock.com
✔ SalvageSale.com
✔ TheSOCExchange.com
✔ Webidz.com
The Boring Game
in Eagle Par Birdie, on October 21, 2008
...itement is in the playing of the damn game. Not in predicting points outcomes.
Huggan offers some alternatives . My own alternatives might involve making the weekly tour stops tougher. Grow the roug...
What others have to say about Shawn Hessinger and BootStrapMe.com
in BootStrapMe, on October 20, 2008
... blog topic for me. As founder of PostRanger.com , an interactive blogging network, I share my own bootstrapping struggles with readers regularly and with them seek solutions.
Here's what others...
CAN SaaS pricing drop by half?
in The CIO Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...here, that Forrester is talking about SaaS variants of these software packages rather than in-house alternatives, which there is also a market for. Part of what is grounding that assumption is that if...
Another book on bootstrapping
in BootStrapMe, on October 14, 2008
...s " book due out this spring.
In a post on her Distribution Solutionz blog, Chicke suggests bootstrapping may be key to innovation today because:
• Economic hard times tend to squelch innovat...
Bootstrapping key in tough economic times
in BootStrapMe, on October 13, 2008
... thrive in an uncertain economy because they:
• Do more with less. Since the very definition of bootstrapping is getting along without outside investment this implies a startup and growth without lo...
Tips for the serious bootstrapper
in BootStrapMe, on October 11, 2008
...s you'd like to do from day one in your business.) This presupposes, of course, that you're bootstrapping for the long haul not just long enough to get backing.
Remember, whether you eventua...
Help me make this blog even better
in BootStrapMe, on October 8, 2008
...pers .
And, of course, I'll be providing more tips as well...and more tales of my own ongoing bootstrapping efforts .
But if you have any ideas about other things that could be added to make th...
Bootstrapping my blog network
in BootStrapMe, on October 7, 2008
...o link to my network by simply telling me you're a BootStrapMe reader.
You can also follow the bootstrapping of this interactive blogging network at ZooQ . If you would like to be added as one o...
Make me an offer!
in BootStrapMe, on October 6, 2008
I'm setting pricing for my latest bootstrapped venture and could use your help.
PostRanger.com , the interactive blog network, is up and running and, as you've probably noticed, some guest posting is already going on, mainly for noncommercial purposes with a link back to a writer'...
