On Memorial Day 2010 we commemorate those who died in the service of our country. Richard Fernandez has an outstanding post “Memory and Survival” that highlights the importance of remembering the altruistic sacrifices that not only make our society possible but better than it would be otherwise.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs — May 2010 Read More »
Cash Flow management and taking into account assets and resources is challenge for all businesses. Rick Kadet of The Brenner Group, Inc will be our guest at the Bootstrapppers Breakfast®, Tuesday, June 15 to discuss “Effective Cash Flow Financial Strategies” for early stage entrepreneurs. Rick will present a short 5-10 introduction to set the stage
Steve Sammartino had a thought provoking post on “Niche Marketing & Startups” that opened with this: The niche market is great for well resourced companies doing innovative stuff. Not so for startups. Gaining traction with any new product or company is inherently difficult. We ought sell to anyone who’ll buy our stuff. Get the message
Focus On a Niche Increases Your Chances For Success Read More »
It’s hard to test customer development theories: you cannot step into the same river twice and you cannot step into the same market twice.
Customer Development and Its Discontents Read More »
Steve Blank gave a thought provoking talk at the Startup Lessons Learned Conference on “Customer Development 2.0: Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups” (slides here and related blog post “Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups” which is part of a category of blog posts on “Durant vs. Sloan“). He also referenced Robert Shedd‘s list of startup accelerators
Steve Blank Plans to Crowdsource E-Schools Read More »
Vivek Wadhwa wrote a great post recently called “Ditch the Biz Plan and Buy a Lottery Ticket” which oddly enough contains a number of good pointers for bootstrappers. His opening paragraph explains the title (emphasis added) Hardly a day goes by when I don’t have a rookie entrepreneur ask for advice on raising money from
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