Survival Tips for Solopreneurs
A few years ago, survival tips for the small business owner would have focused primarily on productivity issues and marketing strategies. In the face of a fa... Read more
Recent Bootstrapper's Bible Articles
The Art of The Pivot
Lean startup guru Eric Ries recommends that start-ups refine their business models through small tweaks—or pivots. Read more
Steps to a Pivot
Five tips for changing your company’s business model and direction. Read more
How to Find Money in Your Business
Solopreneurs experiencing roadblocks to cash flow can take these simple steps to put themselves back in the driver's seat. Get cash flowing and profits movin... Read more
Matt Mickiewicz, Co-founder of Sitepoint.com 
The Vancouver-based founder of Sitepoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, Matt Mickiewicz, speaks on bootstrapping and internet marketing. Watch video
Eric Ries, Author and Startup Lessons Learned Blogger
The author, consultant, and blogger at The Lean Startup discusses new management disciplines in the practice of entrepreneurial innovation. Watch video
7 Easy Steps to Bootstrapping Success
A guide on how to launch a start-up on the cheap. Read more
How to Bootstrap Your Public Relations
Looking for ways around hiring a PR specialist or outsourcing your publicity? Take - and master - the DIY approach. Read more
How to Build a Bootstrapping Culture
Here are some tips to the art of building a business with little or no cash. Read more
How to Pitch Your Business to Friends and Family
It's important to preserve relationships and protect everyone involved when tapping your family tree for funding. Read more
Building a Brick-Oven Dream in Seattle
Food writer Molly Wizenberg talks to Inc. about the trials and rewards of opening a pizza shop with her husband. Read more
Avoid These Cash Draining Start-up Mistakes
Because stretching your start-up dollars is so important, it’s critical that you avoid cash-draining mistakes. Read more
How to Break Into the Fashion Industry
Emerging designers, beware: Even if you are able to create a beautiful product, the fashion world is fraught with tricky choices on incorporation, competitiv... Read more
14 Bootstrapping Tips
Even the most self-sufficient start-ups need a hand. Here are some pointers to make the most of free and cheap resources around you. Read more
10 Tips for Bootstrapping Your Marketing
When money's tight, your brand's image doesn't have to suffer. Read more
10 Tips for Bootstrapping Your Technology
When you're starting a business on your own dime, the rule for tech is keep it simple. Read more
How to Finance a Business With Your 401(k)
A bad lending environment and provisions in the tax code make tapping retirement funds a tempting start-up financing option. Here's what you need to know. Read more
Trading Equity for Services
Why more companies are trying out a new kind of barter system. Read more
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Nerds On Call
How a small computer repair company stole market share from Best Buy and embarked on a national expansion. Read more
Bring It Back from the Brink
What happens when you build a company, show growth and clients, get investment, and then the market drops out? Read more
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Smashing Ideas
How three cartoon animators built an interactive branding company from their basements that's growing over 50 percent annually. Read more
Is a Barter Exchange Right for Your Company?
Careful: Some barter trades can be costly Read more
The Bootstrapper's Guide to Launching New Products
Discovering the value of lean product development and minimum viable product Read more
Great No-Cost Software
Paying is passé. Use these 10 free software programs instead Read more
How to Manage Volunteer Software Developers
Companies like Etsy use developer tools such as APIs to entice developers to build mobile applications for free Read more
How to Start a Beauty Company
If you have smarts, style, and nerve, then Maureen Kelly of Tarte Cosmetics says that you could hit it big Read more
How to Start an Adventure Travel Company
Check every hotel personally, says Brian Morgan of Adventure Life. Same goes for the zip lines. Read more
The Start-up Guru
Paul Graham's business school and investment fund, Y Combinator, has launched 145 companies -- for a lot less money than you would think Read more
How to Get Customers to Pay Upfront
Wouldn't it be great if your customers actually paid in advance? Unfortunately, for many small-business owners, that's easier said than done. But with the... Watch video
Start-Up Advice from the Inc. 500
Six entrepreneurs' advice on the best practices when starting your business. Hear from Warren Brown of CakeLove on pacing yourself, Michael Alter of SureP... Watch video
Jim Koch on the Secret to Effective (and Cheap) Marketing
Educating consumers is crucial if you want to keep marketing expenses in check. Read more
Bootstrapping 101: Use Cheap Web Tools
Using open-source tools that are free on the Internet, Jason Fried and his partners began to devise applications for internal use--and soon sold them on thei... Read more
The Billionaire Bootstrapper
A $550 sink nearly prevented Fred DeLuca from amassing a billion-dollar fortune. Read more
Bootstrapping 101: Brand It Creatively
In launching Madsoul, an urban streetwear label, in 2000, Marc D'Amelio raised guerrilla marketing to an art form. Read more
Bootstrapping 101: Switch Business Models On a Dime
Napoleon Barragan of 1-800-Mattress has been consistently inconsistent when it comes to building his $100 million company. Read more
