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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. If you want to do an extended PR/branding campaign, look into Jason's Get Fully Exposed service with ABD Mag.

To Now 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. A number of contributors are already lined up. Brandy had a great post about the Film Subgroup. Next week Kevin will be posting from his blog. And today's post is by Brian, who highlights David Ansel's community-building through story-telling. Notice that Brian also sends people to his Customer Chaos Blog where they can continue the discussion directly with him.

Here's how you can get a new post on BD Tech Daily:

1. 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.
2. Share your google doc with me at: sendbijoynews AT gmail
3. We will go back and forth on editing
4. Once it's good to go, we will add it to the queue and post it

If you have an existing post that you think would be appropriate send the link.

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.

I'm looking forward to all the great posts in the coming months!

bijoy

Post Schedule

January - Getting Started

• Jan 18, Brandy Rainey: Bootstrap Film Subgroup
• Jan 31, Brian Massey: If You're Selling to Humans, You've Got to Tell Stories

February

• Feb 7, Kevin Koym: Building Business in Austin Despite a Possible Recession
• Feb 14, Geoff Chudleigh: Paul Carrozza Talk

March - SXSW Panelists

• Mar 7, Dan Gutknecht: Bootstrapping, Art and SXSW
• Mar 14, Marcy Hoen: I am Bootstrap (and so can you!)
• Mar 21, Jonathan McCoy: Lessons from Bear Grillis in the Valley of Death
• Mar 28, Nancy Schill: Moving Safely into Collaborations

April - Innovative Web Apps

• Apr 4, Mark Smith:
• Apr 11, Marcus Mateus:
• Apr 18, Kyle Johnson:
• Apr 25, Miles Sims

May

• May 2: Michael Wilson,
• May 9
• May 16
• May 23
• May 30

June

• Jun 6
• Jun 13
• Jun 20
• Jun 27

July

• Jul 4
• Jul 11
• Jul 18
• Jul 25

August

• Aug 1
• Aug 8
• Aug 15
• Aug 22
• Aug 29

September

• Sep 5
• Sep 12
• Sep 19
• Sep 26

October

• Oct 3
• 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