Bootstrapping


Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
MAKE: Bootstrapper's Handbook
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
Business as Unusual: The Triumph of Anita Roddick
Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Teach Fast: Focused Adaptable Structured Teaching
Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
Seth Godin
The entrepreneur is comfortable raising money, hiring and firing, renting more office space than she needs right now. The entrepreneur must dream big and persuade others to share her dream. The freelancer, on the other hand, can focus on craft. She can most easily build her business by doing great work, consistently.
Seth Godin, The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Having the money to buy something, or pay someone, often robs us of an opportunity to be creative.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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