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You don’t need to get funding for your business. Which is good, since you probably won’t anyway.

Quit your day job the minute you see a viable path toward financial independence.

The debate about Free rages on…

On both sides of this debate are incredible thinkers, incredibly smart and successful companies, and a lot of profit. Also, on both sides, are some real stinkers. Everyone is convinced that they are right, that history is on their side, that the laws of economics and psychology will win out in the end (vindicating their position).

Here’s the thing about all this…

You people keep forgetting that there is more than one way to make money.

One day they’re going to get tired of me gushing over them, but that day has not yet come.

I love Revolve.

When people hear the word bootstrapping, they usually think of starting or running a business on a small budget. That would certainly be one application of bootstrapping, but the concept of bootstrapping goes much further.

Gourmet Gift Baskets is a fantastic case study in the evolution of SEO- what used to work, how it worked, why it doesn’t work anymore, and what to do about it.

So what do you do about it? How do rank on Google now that the tricks will get you banned?

Break a world record.

Even online, details matter. Unfortunately, because the way website layout works, and boxed-in goodness of web page templates, it is hard to control every little detail of how a web page displays.
But you have to try, of course.
I’m in the process of adding service menus to the Social Bootstrap website, so that people can look [...]

I just read Seth Godin’s post about Risk and Reward. He talked about the trade-off between Risk and Reward, and how you have to take on additional risk in order to get additional reward. (Which is true.)
And he had this nifty graph:
Minor quibble- Traditionally, Risk is charted on the x-axis, reward (return) on the y-axis.
Risk [...]

• Anyone out there thinking that it is too hard to start a business just got pwned.
• Anyone out there thinking that there won’t be any competetion for whatever goofy thing they’ve decided to sell (this included me, you, and everyone you know)… we just got pwned, too.