You’ve all heard the common advice that to startups that you need a good team. I’m sure that is right, however some times and at certain stages that team should consist of just you. Granted if you happen to have a really good small founding team of really capable people, by all means you should work together. However, …

Joe Kraus says It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur In this post he asks why it cost $3m to launch Excite and only $100k to launch JotSpot His conclusion is that it boils down to the following 4 things: Hardware is 100X cheaper Infrastructure software is free Access to Global Labor Markets Search Engine Marketing …

During the Reboot 7 conference one of the most interesting sessions was Jason Fried from 37Signals titled “Doing big things with small teams”. It is the story how they have managed to roll out: Basecamp Tada-list Backpack Using very few resources and quickly. It was basically a tale of bootstrapping successfull …

Seth Godin hits it again. Small is the new big he claims. This is what I’ve been claiming for years now: Small means the founder makes a far greater percentage of the customer interactions. Small means the founder is close to the decisions that matter and can make them, quickly. Small is the new big because small gives …

Last year I wrote a long pice The Electronic Micro Venture in which I outlined these 6 simple rules to help launch and fund a transparent micro venture. As these are very important to what I am doing right now it I will keep an updated version of the 6 rules here. These rules are somewhat inspired by The Cluetrain …

This blog will aim to document the process of bootstrapping my new venture. I will cover both the business and to some respects technical issues. While I am already close to launching, the bootstrapping process isn’t really finished until it has reached a level of stability where it can manage with out outside funding. …