Can You Bootstrap? – Harvard Business Review

During this economic downturn, many of us have faced similar circumstances. In trudging through a gloom-and-doom atmosphere, there have been things we wanted to get done, businesses we wanted to expand or start, but couldn’t. At least not the way we’d originally envisioned.

No doubt the best and brightest went after funding, but it wasn’t available. So they started anyway, knowing that it was do-or-don’t eat, and were thus highly incentivized to get the business model right. Right enough that 61% of the entrepreneurs turned a profit after only a year.

I agree with this, especially now that I’ve headed back into the hardcore bootstrap mode. I’ll be putting a post together to outline my recent experiences, and how they look to have come out for the best in reality. I think the major point in all of this, always look for the best alternative within a situation, especially when it doesn’t go as planned.

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