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[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

Espousing that borrowing money and debt are optional, the book proposed that entrepreneurs starting such businesses were more interested in the lifestyle it offered rather than making oodles of cash. Positioned as a guide for bootstrapping solopreneurs, the book doesn’t dive deeply into any one specific domain.

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Are you driven by making your investors rich?

The Next Web

B: No, the business is bootstrapped. What’s crazy about this is that the guy who’s actually making money is being laughed at — it’s just so much better to have a gazillion eyeballs (and no business model). of all businesses. These small businesses are the backbone of American capitalism. I do other stuff.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Start-Up Chile: $40k to Live There and Start a Company - Ben Casnocha: The Blog , August 14, 2010 Governments round the world are trying to stimulate entrepreneurship. You can bootstrap your way into existence. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”. equity debate.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Bless you, chile! Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. This is really helpful, Derek. You are also timely.just when I need help here you come with the correct suggestions.