A few weeks ago I posted about an exercise meant to look at how to bootstrap an online music label from a nuts and bolts perspective. The post looked at a couple of...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Karl Dolenc Whether you're bootstrapping in the music business as discussed in the previous post or in any other market you can think...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Dan Bachman CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Here are more ingredients for bootstrapping success from Thomas Frey at Impact Lab: •...

How do you know your business model is sound? During a visit to the City of Pottsville in the Pennsylvania anthracite region this weekend, my wife and I came upon the...

The .htaccess file included with Drupal tells Apache to send all 404 requests to Drupal to handle. While this is great in some cases, the performance degradation can have...

After I moved back from the States in early 2005, I started a web design and development business in Mumbai, India. At that time everyone was doing it. Outsourcing was a...

Sometimes the best sales force is an army of satisfied customers. Mike Smith makes a point along these same lines in his recent post "Word of Mouth Marketing: Thank your...

© no copyright info I've often argued that trade is a bit like gravity. We may quarrel about how the benefits are distributed-how much should go to those who do the...

Gavin Bowman, director of V4 Solutions e-mails: Hi Shawn, Just read your post asking for suggestions for links relating to bootstrapping/entrepreneurship. I run a...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5045180 As many readers probably already know, I'll be doing an interview with KasondraK of the Succeed in the Music Business...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Daniel Stein Blogger and venture journalist Donna Bogatin will host a StartupAlpha pitch meet and tech connection party 5:30 to 8:30 p.m....

Our next Strategy Series event on 7/15 is called "To VC or not to VC" and we'll be discussing the upside and downside of venture capital vs. angel funding vs....

For those of you new to this site, I thought I'd take just a few minutes to explain again what all of this is about and how it got started. My name is Shawn...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5394827 Mystic Cab, a film co-written by bootstrap envangelist Bijoy Goswami, premiers Thursday at 6 p.m. at (where else?) The...

So what does all this tipping point stuff mean when it comes to choosing your startup product or service? After all, while marketer Seth Godin suggests you make you...

In the comment section of a recent blog post, Carrie asks: What's behind your choice of Squidoo as a platform for your new site? Were there other ones you...

The co-founder of HubSpot has written this great article over at OnStartups about why he chose to raise $17 million in Venture Funding despite a longtime commitment to...

In his great recent post at OnStartups, HubSpots co-founder Dharmesh Shah discusses his decision to raise $17 million in VC funding for the company he bootstrapped with...

Conversations about music bootstrapping in recent posts have me thinking in turn of another recent blog entry at Startup Africa revisiting Guy Kawasaki's thoughts on...

You don't need to wait until the time is right to launch your bootstrap venture. In fact, as entrepreneur Greg Gianforte has pointed out, one of the best things...