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Guest Blog: Bootstrapping Our Way Back From the Collapse
Colleagues,
Please see excellent blog post from Sramana Mitra in Xconomy. Sramana is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She has founded three companies and writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy. Her latest book is Entrepreneur Journeys: Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction, see MedTech-IQ recommednded reading for link...
Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year (along with broader financial markets) the question at the top of my mind has been, “What next?” or maybe, “Where to from here?”
From my perspective it is clear that small business must be a top priority in the coming months and years. There are approximately five million small businesses in the United States with fewer than 20 employees. Another 20 million moms and pops endeavor day in and day out without employees. Let us hope that in the coming decade those numbers will double, then triple and quadruple. Here is the most powerful engine of economic growth and sustenance. Here is our way back.
I’m a serial entrepreneur who founded three companies after earning my master’s degree from MIT. I continue to work as a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. I’ve seen how entrepreneurs like RightNow founder Greg Gianforte found ways to get started without capital and how they have been able to create a great many options for their businesses. I believe entrepreneurship is the only sustainable path forward to a healthy economic world order....
Read on at: http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/09/12/bootstrapping-our-way-b...
ENJOY!
CC
Please see excellent blog post from Sramana Mitra in Xconomy. Sramana is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She has founded three companies and writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy. Her latest book is Entrepreneur Journeys: Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction, see MedTech-IQ recommednded reading for link...
Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year (along with broader financial markets) the question at the top of my mind has been, “What next?” or maybe, “Where to from here?”
From my perspective it is clear that small business must be a top priority in the coming months and years. There are approximately five million small businesses in the United States with fewer than 20 employees. Another 20 million moms and pops endeavor day in and day out without employees. Let us hope that in the coming decade those numbers will double, then triple and quadruple. Here is the most powerful engine of economic growth and sustenance. Here is our way back.
I’m a serial entrepreneur who founded three companies after earning my master’s degree from MIT. I continue to work as a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. I’ve seen how entrepreneurs like RightNow founder Greg Gianforte found ways to get started without capital and how they have been able to create a great many options for their businesses. I believe entrepreneurship is the only sustainable path forward to a healthy economic world order....
Read on at: http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/09/12/bootstrapping-our-way-b...
ENJOY!
CC
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