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From dictionary.com: boot·strap, noun, adjective, verb, -strapped, -strap·ping. –noun a loop of leather or cloth sewn at the top rear, or sometimes on each side, of a boot to facilitate pulling it on. a means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something: He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters. –adjective relying entirely […]

Noam Wasserman on his Founder Frustrations blog does great analyses (like this one) of startup founders and how they fare in different startup exit scenarios. It’s interesting to see the reality. I’d love to see a study that compares venture funded tech startups to bootstrapped tech startups. Specifically I’m interested in: What are the relative […]

“Who believes a brand’s elaborate web of often conflicting messages, when ten thousand connected consumers agree that the company behind the brand sucks?” (PDF)

We’re still relatively new at this running our own business thing but we’ve been doing it long enough to be able to notice some patterns as well as compare and contrast them with patterns we’ve seen working at big companies. And when it comes to what’s hidden, this is one area where the size of […]

I suppose it’s easy for me to talk about the pitfalls of being a public company given that there aren’t thousands of people lining up to buy shares in Jackson Fish Market (yet :) ). That said, I will judge anyway… From the New York Times on the topic of Starbucks recent troubles: “These people […]