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Starting a Home Business

© Kai Hendry Entrepreneur.com took a look recently at what's required when starting up a home based business, and there's a lot in it that's applicable to many of us in the bootstrapping world. The move from a fully-equipped office--with copiers, doughnuts and an IT specialist--to a h...

Seen that? - Torino 2006 - WTF!?

Torino 2006 - WTF!? at XboxSpace I've been watching the Olympics non-stop lately, I think its so funny how these random athletes in these uber obscure sports (i.e. curling, speed skating) become "heroes" for two weeks, every four yea...

Seen that? - Biggest Gnome proves good example

... unique to you and that you believe in, also cuts to the [...] Read More Download the Bootstrapper's Bible here at BootStrapMe As regular re...

Seen that? - Internet marketing made simple-and cheap!

... It doesn't cost a lot to get involved in e-commerce, as any good bootstrapper knows. This weekend I attended a (wince) free Internet marketing seminar at the Zolling...

Seen that? - Christina Aguilera Pregnant for Sure

...unced that she was changing her style, singing style that is, and will do an album of retrospective blues numbers. Here's the story in "rediff.com." Next she decides to endorse a line o...

Pay Yourself First

© kevindooley It's a basic truth for all personal finance: pay yourself first . Get Rich Slowly had one of the best explanations of this practice I've read in a while. One of the oldest rules of personal finance is the simple admonition to pay yourself first. All the money books tell...

Managing IT on a Bootstrapper's Budget

VentureBeat took a good look at managing your business' IT issues on a bootstrapped budget. There are ways to keep overall costs down during a company’s early stages – and this frugality (and a well thought out IP strategy) is something that will impress VCs when you decide to seek funding...

Seen that? - Custom Card Boxes

... into. 1. Every wedding needs a good caterer, [...] Read More Beat the Wedding Season Blues at The Dating Weblog Do you get bummed every sum...

Boosting Productivity and Profits

© Adam Jones, Ph.D. Small Business Trends had an interesting post last month on how the American work force is under untilized. In a recent article on MarketingProfs, Gallup research of 300,000 businesses indicated that 75-80% of employees are achieving much less and feeling far less ...

Keep Yourself Sharp

© Photos8.com In any endeavor in life, keeping yourself mentally well tuned is extremely important if you want to be successful. Entrepreneur.com 's Scott Halford recently had some tips to help you keep yourself sharp. The foundational idea is simple: be a life long learner. Consider t...

Seen that? -

... CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Link: Cristian Dorobanetscu Especially if you are a bootstrapper. Entrepreneurs are a special kind of people. They are ready to put a lot of work into s...

Seen that? - legal file sharing and movie downloads

...releases in this format. He claims free downloads dramatically aided distribution of his book The Bootstrapper's Bible and believes [...] Read More Dangers of File Sharing a...

Title Race Decided?

With Man City, Aston Villa and serial under-achievers Spurs all fighting it out for a place in the top four, who will lose out and change the face of the Big Four for the first time in five years? Rafa Benitez continues to insist that the top seven teams will lose more matches this year. But after ...

Bereits im Herbst den Frühling in die Erde stecken – jetzt Tulpenzwiebeln pflanzen

...ei. Der Herbst steht vor der Tür. Bei vielen Menschen stellt sich jetzt schon ein leichter Herbst-Blues ein. Aber es gibt eine ganz einfache Möglichkeit, diesem Blues zu entkommen. Wie? Ganz einfach, ...

Hedge Fund Rocktoberfest WildCard Play-Off

...ixth anniversary of their annual benefit, Hedge Fund Rocktoberfest . It is being held at B.B. King Blues Club in New York on Thursday, October 8. The Rocktoberfest Wildcard Play-Off is being held to...

First Business? Some Tips...

Entrepreneur published some tips this month for rookie business owners. If this is your first business, you should take note... Tip number one? Focus! Many first-time entrepreneurs feel the need to jump at every "opportunity" they come across. Opportunities are often wolves in sheep'...

Are Women Born Like This?

Pardon the totally non-PC title, and if you were a bit miffed, I hope you'll laugh it off upon watching this video: Wish my 18-month daughter was like this... or maybe rather not!

Be Your Spouse's Boss? Maybe...

... Women Entrepreneurs asked an interesting question that bootstrappers should consider: should you put your spouse on your payroll? Of course, for them the issue was complicated by our society's ...

Startup Models: Push or Pull?

© toffehoff Young Entrepreneur examined two contrasting startup models recently. If you have thought much about the difference between a "push" model and a "pull" model for your startup, you should. The difference between the two models is this: In a push model an ent...

Building a Niche Business

© country_boy_shane Entrepreneur Dot Com had an interesting piece recently on building a successful niche business. Niche products and services have the potential to generate big bucks if they capture the hearts, minds and wallets of a dedicated consumer base. Unlike conglomerates that targe...

Working From Home? Consider This...

Bootstraping often means working from home . If you decide to take the path, there are some specific questions you need to consider. The central question: You need to ask yourself whether you can financially cover the resources needed to take you through your transition, through the acquisition of...

Startup-Friendly Industries

How do you decide whether opening your own startup business is a good idea? Consider a couple of things. How example, how much startup capital does it take to get into the industry? How long does it take to move a business from opening its doors to profitability? What kind of grow forecast is the...

Too Old to Start a Business? Probably Not...

© BlackpitShooting A recent survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that senior citizens are the largest demographic group starting new businesses these days, according to Inc.com . Between November of 2007 and May of 2009, the percentage of Americans age 65 or older who are self-emplo...

Employee or Entrepreneur? The Pros and Cons of Self-Employment

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 kind of entrepreneurship. It's just about personal finance... Although I tend toward entrepre...

Get Yourself on the Web - with NetworkingForPros.com

© WordRidden I've been contributing over the last few months to the content of a vibrant and growing site that points toward the future of the Internet and has profound potential for users interested in creating business relationships over the web. The site is NetworkingForPros.com . When...

When Setbacks Happen

In this economy you have to expect setbacks. And you have to be prepared to deal with them. Whatever you do to create that mental framework is up to you. I know of people who keep a litttle laminated card in their wallet that gives them a list of steps to remember when bad things happen. I don't...

Demnächst in Lörrach: Stimmen

...Vielfalt: Neben bekannten Sängerinnen und Sängern der gehobenen Pop-Kultur, des Jazz und des Blues kann man auch traditionelle Chöre, wundersame Experimente und folkloristische Gruppen hören und sehen...

How Big is Your Farm?

Seth Godin asked that question recently, as a metaphor. If you own a lot of acres but just have a few bags of seed, you might be tempted to spread out what you've got and cover as much territory as you can. Farmers tell me that this is wasteful and time consuming. You end up with less yield an...

Yescalate Brings You Business Information and Customer Reviews

© Ed Yourdon With any new business, one of the most difficult tasks is finding affordable ways to publicize products and services. Yescalate gives you and your customers a chance to tell your local community about what you do. And it's more than affordable; it's free. If you're ...

EMI collides with GrooveShark

Grooveshark has always been a bit of an oddball in the online world, inititally starting as a complex peer to peer paid download system, before moving onto a social on demand system with the ability to create playlists and share them with others. However, it's future is looking slightly bleak af...

Problem Solving is Key

Success in starting a business is mostly about figuring out what to do when challenges arise. So I couldn't help but get a little excited when I say this point on problem solving . In the piece Sid Kemp looks a six basic steps to assessing and solving problems. And in his view, most of it is c...

Social Networking With Purpose

Entrepreneur.Com had a piece recently that made a simple point: You should be selective with your social networks. The simple truth is that social networking can be a time consuming endeavor. It's easy to get bogged down trying to read all your Twitter posts. Social networks can become redun...

Viral Marketing Chocolate Grasshoppers

© worak 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 you can eat one of these, you probably have the guts to be an entrepreneur, too. From Rob Ma...

Covoiturage et festivals

... www.123envoiture.com est partenaire de plus de 10 festivals : Art Rock, Rock en Stock, Salaise Blues Festival, Terres du Son, Atelier de la Marionnette ou encore les Eurockéennes de Belfort et FISE...

Using Video to Boost Your Profile

...that lets you select a background, making your video look much better. And free tools are good for bootstrappers, right?...

MBAs and Entrepreneurs

BusinessWeek recently published an article that looked at our infatuation as a nation with the MBA and suggested that perhaps we should be more concerned with the talent of entrepreneurship than with training. Rarely have I seen the contrast spelled out so clearly... Now, I understand the us...

E-Ink Funky Watches

Ok, little bit of a tangant for The Gadgets Weblog, but hey, this certainly is a gadget! Engadget have picked up on some funky new watches being released by Phosphor which use E-ink, more commonly used in book readers and the occasional phone. It's certainly a good application of the tech a...

Bankroll blues

Two alarming reports, both from the Centre for Public Integrity , show how entrenched the banks are in the political system and how close they are to politicians. Is it any wonder the US Government won't crack down on them? First comes its report showing that that the top 25 originators ...

TweetDeck Has a Fierce Rival in Seesmic Desktop

... grabs • 5 Unique Websites with Very Useful Tag Clouds • The American Express Blues • 后危机时代的2009年中国机会 • Big-Screen e-Readers May Help Save Newspapers • Best Buy to trial launch Palm Pre on J...

How Sound is Your Business Plan?

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...

NFL Week 1

© RMTip21 The Oakland Raiders and long time rival San Diego Chargers face off in the Monday Night Football season opener in Oakland. Seems that no matter where they play, the Raiders have a huge following. Possibly one of the biggest in the NFL. Here's the Week 1 Schedule. NFL Schedu...

Before You Start a Business, Do an Internship

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

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...

VC's Overrated...

... 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...

Managing IT costs

If you haven't seen this Forrester blog post yet, go over and give it a read. No, I'll wait. Okay. Well, what did you think? Although they didn't put his name on the article (perhaps you're supposed to recognize him by the picture), I found out yesterday it was authored by Marc ...

The Bootstrapper's Fable: Is a VC Hunting You?

... 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 s...

20 Bootstrapping Tips

...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 ...

Rupert Murdoch's downturn blues

Rupert Murdoch is blaming the spending binge for the crisis, and warns that it will probably take some time until we emerge from it. But the reality is that his News Corporation has been hit hard by the downturn. Already, News Corporation's digital arm Fox Interactive Media is axing jobs...

Building a Start Up from Scratch

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...

FAS 157: Is it Killing Investment?

...py about FAS 157. Here's a few pieces, some new and some old, on the new rule: The Valuation Blues (aka How FAS157 Is Tortuous) FAS 157 is Stupid A FAS 157 Primer Summary of Stateme...

Fear Not! In a Recession, Fear Will Kill Your Business...

...ad 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, ...

What is a Bootstrapper?

...teresting 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 business launched...,&qu...

Bailout blues won't stop foreclosures

The sorry state of the US housing market has become even more apparent with price crashing and foreclosures rising 25% in October, according to the latest reports . But what makes it more appalling is the approach taken by Henry Paulson. Now basically consigned to lame duck status, Paulson...

Share bootstrap resources on Yahoo!

... © Yodel Anecdotal Got a resource you'd like to share with other bootstrappers? Do so at The Bootstrapper's Group on Yahoo! using the Rich-Text Editor function to create links to blogs an...

Bootstrapping key in tough economic times

...ontinue to be pessimistic about the immediate future. But, as I mentioned in a recent post at the Bootstrapper's Gtoup on Yaho o!, Mark "Rizzin" Hopkins is not one of them and in a rec...

Tips for the serious bootstrapper

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Magdalena Duczkowska Once the wave of exuberance over starting a new bootstrap business passes giving way to a lot of hard work accompanied by occasional disappointment, it's time to take some serious stock. Unlike the funded model, there may not be any bi...

Hunger gives bootstrappers their edge

...#39;s Note: Entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescue interviews mike Michalowicz about the ultimate bootstrapper advantage. ) I've recently had the chance of interviewing Mike Michalowicz , se...

Bailout blues

US president George Bush has moved to heavy Congress into running with the $700 billion package but the entire thing needs to be put in some sort of perspective. It's just not going to work. Columnist Robert Samuelson compares it to richard nixon 's 1971 wage-price freeze. And ir...

Reader's pick for bootstrapper principles

© a2gemma We've laid out a couple of what I consider to be among the most important bootstrapping principles over the last few days: Here they are . But I want to keep this site as interactive as possible so now it's your turn to add to the list. If there are any important princi...

Bootstrapping principle #2: Partnerships over pay-out

...ding a partner with programming experience , in this case a former competitor/ Partnerships among bootstrappers: • Build knowledge and skill without added cost. In the case of LeadVine, outsourcing...

Swerving off the bootstrapping trail...or am I?

... to me recently, to the point where I have taken the next logical step in exploring a very...er...unbootstrapper-like???...possibility. But is it really? Here's the thing. It has occurred to me ...

Mid September Food and Wine Festivals

...rlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada Green County Cheese Days in Monroe, Wisconsin Chowder, Blues and Brews in Florence, Oregon...

My bootstrapping tools

...ders know that in addition to editing this blog including tips, resources, interviews and news for bootstrappers, I'm also a bootstrapping entrepreneur working on a new interactive blogging networ...

What's your bootstrap venture?

...f the reasons for starting your company with little or no outside investment here from bootstrapper Greg Gianforte. ...

Bootstrapper's hall of fame: Cartoonist makes bootstrapping an art

...turning it into a vehicle for showcasing her own work. • Shoestring cartoonist. Like most bootstrappers, her overhead is remarkably low, $200 for a digital artist's tool and $12 a month to mai...

The ultimate bootstrapping trait?

...p of early adopters and looks at how they eventually work their way into the mainstream. For the bootstrapper , this kind of spread of awareness about a product or service without the need for big b...

Bootstrapper's Labor Day

© doratagold As my labor day weekend draws to an end, I managed to get in some relaxing...but not much. For those readers not living in the U.S., here is a brief explanation of the holiday and what it means. In the past, I've posted (somewhat irreverently, I admit) about the rel...

Bootstrapping tip: Call your competitor

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 6219339 CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Not just a bootstrapping tool, LeadVine is a bootstrapped venture itself . At last check, the site boasted 169 users, 74 listings and about $116,000 in finders' fees, though co-founder Allen Margate admits he&...

Bootstrapping tool makes sign-up easy

...# 833614 CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST We saw last time how LeadVine creates a new tool for bootstrappers helping them with possibly the biggest challenge of operating a business: recruiting ...

Bootstrapping your sales force with LeadVine

Got a product or service, but no time or resources to get it to those who may want it most? That's where LeadVine.com , a recently launched website built to serve as a sales tool for bootstrap entrepreneurs, comes in. "We're basically crowd sourcing the whole sales process,&quo...