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*Aug 4: Don Jarrell, founder of  [http://www.digitalthinkinginc.com Digital Thinking Inc.] and Bootstrap Ambassador to [http://www.usa-canada.les.org The Licensing Executive Society] -- [http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/2008/08/value-of-answer-is-directly.html "The Value of the Answer is Directly Proportional to the Quality of the Question"]:  
 
*Aug 4: Don Jarrell, founder of  [http://www.digitalthinkinginc.com Digital Thinking Inc.] and Bootstrap Ambassador to [http://www.usa-canada.les.org The Licensing Executive Society] -- [http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/2008/08/value-of-answer-is-directly.html "The Value of the Answer is Directly Proportional to the Quality of the Question"]:  
 
*Aug 8: [http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/dflowers Damon Flowers], founder [http://www.dwellgo.com Dwellgo], [http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/2008/08/turn-right-to-go-left.html Turn Right to Go Left]
 
*Aug 8: [http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/dflowers Damon Flowers], founder [http://www.dwellgo.com Dwellgo], [http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/2008/08/turn-right-to-go-left.html Turn Right to Go Left]
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*Aug 15: Tania Cowher, founder [http://www.celeb4aday.com Celeb 4 A Day]:  
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*Aug 15: Tania Cowher, founder [http://www.celeb4aday.com Celeb 4 A Day]: [http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/2008/08/thinking-outside-box-there-is-no-spoon.html Thinking Outside the Box - There is No Spoon, and there Isn't a Box Either]
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*Aug 18: Barry Thornton, [http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/2008/08/entrepreneurs-and-intellectual-property.html Entrepreneurs and Intellectual Property]
 
*Aug 22: Gavin Wilson
 
*Aug 22: Gavin Wilson
 
*Aug 29: [http://www.deecopeland.com Dee Copeland]
 
*Aug 29: [http://www.deecopeland.com Dee Copeland]

Revision as of 09:14, 18 August 2008

The Bootstrap Blog shares news about the bootstrap community updated by Contributors who post directly to the blog. It is also a place where Bootstrap members can share their expertise and gain readers for their own blogs. Why blog? Well, it's good for you! But more than the purported health benefits, blogging serves as a way to lock in your own learning about whatever it is you write about. It also is a fantastic way to communicate with the outside world and evangelizing your product/service leveraging the Bootstrap Austin brand. If you aren't blogging for your business, perhaps this will help spur you on. Regardless of your stage, blogging is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to build credibility and notoriety for you and your venture.

BD Tech Daily

BD Tech Daily is a daily email newsletter (see below) produced by Jason and his team at Business District Magazine. Bootstrap has a weekly post on Fridays, which also appears on the Bootstrap Austin blog. I kicked off the weekly posts last year with a series on the stages of bootstrapping from Preideation, Ideation, Valley of Death, Growth and Rebootstrap. I concluded by describing bootstrapping as the third way of entrepreneurship, integrating the best of the other 2 models, the cookie-cutter/franchise and the funding/VC. This was part of a year-long PR/Branding exercise developed with Jason. If you want to do an extended PR/branding campaign similar to what we did for Bootstrap, look into Jason's Get Fully Exposed service with ABD Mag. This service is appropriate for companies in the Growth stage.

We are creating an opportunity for the bootstrap community's expertise to be heard with the ability to post to BD Tech Daily and the Bootstrap blog. See below for some of the past posts. Content varies from reporting on a Bootstrap Austin meeting, to reflecting on an aspect of bootstrapping. The idea is that you will promote bootstrapping/the community AND your business. Ideally, you give people a place to continue the conversation with you as Brian did on his post on David Ansel, the Soup Peddler.

Steps to Get your Post on Bootstrap Austin

  1. Pick a date from the calendar below
  2. Create a post on a Google doc. See Brian's post for pointers on content and format. Your post should be educational, relevant to some aspect of the bootstrap process and appeal to a broader business audience beyond the bootstrap community. You should also include a personal description at the end with appropriate links to you/your business. This is a promotional activity!
  3. Share your google/Word doc with me at along with the expected date: sendbijoynews AT gmail
  4. Go back and forth on editing
  5. Once it's good to go, we will add it to the queue and post it on the Thursday before the due date. If you have an existing post that you think would be appropriate send the link.

Those who have already blogged may post whenever you feel compelled!

Post Schedule

January - Getting Started

February

March - SXSW Panelists

April - Innovative Web Apps

May - Right Action, Right Time

June

July

August

September

  • Sep 5: Allen Beuershausen
  • Sep 12: Andy Meadows, founder Live Oak Interactive
  • Sep 19: Jeffrey Fry
  • Sep 26: Tom Baum

October

  • Oct 3: Marcy Hoen, on Minimzing Unnecessary Actions
  • Oct 10
  • Oct 17
  • Oct 24
  • Oct 31

November

  • Nov 7
  • Nov 14
  • Nov 21
  • Nov 28

December

  • Dec 5
  • Dec 12
  • Dec 19
  • Dec 26
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