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5 Strategies Recommended For Successful Bootstrapping

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often hear the desire to run their own company, to avoid having someone else telling them how to run the business. I strongly advise you create a separate bank account and credit card for your business, even though it is all your money. You will also need a line of credit for financing.

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

I’ve remained a skeptic about the BBB and as a result of an email I received a couple of weeks ago from them, I have raised the skepticism threat level. So here’s the email I received: Eric, My name is Chad Ratliffe emailing from the Better Business Bureau. That’s how we do business at Make It Work.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. We had lawyers everywhere; digging through files, reviewing all of our emails and mounds of paperwork. After getting the run around from the CEO, I was advised to take action to remedy the situation. Find a Simple Way to Tell a Complex Story (and ano.