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Acres of Diamonds – Wealth Under Your Nose?

July 1, 2011, Business Ownership, Creativity and Ideation, Entrepreneur Personality, Entrepreneurship Quotes, Entrepreneurship Stories, Entrepreneurship Tools, Entreprneurship Training
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/acres-of-diamonds-wealth-under-your-nose/

Acres of Diamonds – I’m Late to the Game – I just finished what is a must-read for all would be entrepreneurs. It is an essay/lecture from Russell Conwell.

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Cost to Start a New Business?

March 27, 2011, Bootstrapping, Creativity and Ideation
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/cost-to-start-a-new-business/

The common assumption is that it costs a great deal of money to start a business. But this isn’t really true. We take a look at a quick business idea that costs no where near the amount that some think it should.

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Instagram Company Review

March 13, 2011, Bootstrapping, Business plans, Entrepreneurship Stories
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/instagram-company-review/

One of our students wrote asking what I think about the company Instagram.  I had never heard of the company or used its services, but there was an article about the firm in Businessweek, February 11, 2011 issue. Instagram has zero revenue, four staffers, and about 2 million users.  The firm wrote an app that [...]

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Small Business Numbers Round-up

March 11, 2011, Bootstrapping, Entrepreneurship Stories
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/2260/

Small Business Numbers Round-up: Angry Birds raises money; Subway Wins and Kills McDonalds; Hope for a 700,000 backlog in the patent office; Start-up costs; and small business optimism is increasing.

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Great Bootstrapping Story – Cafe and Rock-Climbing Gym

March 3, 2011, Bootstrapping, Entrepreneurship Stories
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/great-bootstrapping-story-cafe-and-rock-climbing-gym/

Bootstrapping a business while maintaining a primary job – it is very possible. Here is a story about one of my best friends opening a small cafe in a climbing gym.

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GUEST Blog! New Business Startup Intro

February 8, 2011, Bootstrapping, Business Ownership
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/guest-blog-new-business-startup-intro/

My name is Skip Blankley and I am the founder and CEO of Social Relish, which offers social media and online marketing strategies for the restaurant industry.  I was asked to write a guest blog by Jim.  I knew Jim through a previous job and reached out to him recently for advice on starting a [...]

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The DIY Artist

August 10, 2010, Bootstrapping, Creativity and Ideation, General Thoughts
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/the-diy-artist/

What is a DIY artist?  DIY stands for Do It Yourself, and it basically means the entrepreneurial artist.  The bootstrapping artist.  It’s the musician who is using a laptop and a microphone to record his or her first album, using Facebook and MySpace to promote the album, and is playing at coffee houses, bars, and [...]

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An Entrepreneur's Story

July 12, 2010, Entrepreneurship Quotes, Entrepreneurship Stories
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/an-entrepreneurs-story/

Here is a link to a great story from this Sunday’s NY Times about Prerna Gupta and her transition from the corporate world to starting her own business: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/jobs/11pre.html Here is a quote from the last paragraph of the article describing her change in attitude and outlook: Maybe I value my time more than my [...]

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Bootstrapping a Start-up Business

July 7, 2010, Bootstrapping, General Thoughts
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/bootstrapping-a-start-up-business/

Just a few weeks ago, I launched a one page website for a service business and advertised by using Google Ads capped at $2/day.  I currently offer more services than I could provide with the equipment I currently have.  Is that dishonest?  No, because if my client wants the service I advertise, I will purchase [...]

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Entrepreneurial Rap Quotes

May 26, 2010, Bootstrapping, Entrepreneurship Quotes
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/entrepreneurial-rap-quotes/

Many rappers out there have followed a bootstrapping model for their business.  They started using inexpensive recording equipment in their own basements, used social media such as MySpace & YouTube, and used viral marketing techniques to get their music heard at a very low start-up cost. One thing I hear rappers do a lot is [...]

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