From New Zealand To Silicon Valley: Victoria Ransom’s Wildfire Journey (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Victoria has been an entrepreneur since her early twenties and has developed three companies. As founder and CEO of Wildfire (www.wildfireapp.com), Victoria led the company to profitability in just one year and has built the company to tens of thousands of customers, over 250 employees, and

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Ten Ways to Market a Business When You’re Broke

By guest author Greg Muender The old axiom is true: you do indeed have to spend money to make money. Your business will never get off the ground if you can’t get the word out, and you can’t get the word out without money. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean you have to already be a millionaire

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Doing $5 Million A Year With Three Employees: FineArtAmerica CEO Sean Broihier (Part 7)

Sramana: Whom do you consider as your competitors? If Art.com is selling Picasso, they are not your competitor. Sean Broihier: Most of the artwork on our site is from living artists and photographers from all over the world. The images that Art.com are selling are supplied to them from large image libraries all over the

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Greg Muender

Greg Muender is President of Ticket Kick, a California company that helps drivers get red light tickets, speeding tickets,  and other traffic tickets dismissed by helping drivers through the trial by written declaration process. The company, which formally launched in 2010 has been providing similar services since 2006 and is the leading company in this

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Game-Changing Rules for Outsourcing

By guest author Kate Vitasek In Search of a Better to Outsource Peter Drucker challenged companies to “Do what you do best and outsource the rest!” Unfortunately, too many companies jumped into outsourcing using the same approaches and methods that they used for procuring commodities and materials to run their operations.   The result is that

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Doing $5 Million A Year With Three Employees: FineArtAmerica CEO Sean Broihier (Part 6)

Sramana: What accounts for the success of some artists and the lack of success of others on FineArtAmerica? Sean Broihier: There is a disproportionate distribution of wealth because we do not have a huge bulk of buyers relative to artists. There are some artists who are making an enormous amount of money and some who

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Kate Vitasek

Author, educator and business consultant Kate Vitasek is an internationally recognized innovator in the practice of supply chain management and outsourcing. She is the founder and lead researcher in the concept of Vested Outsourcing, which was developed in conjunction with the University of Tennessee. Vitasek is also a faculty member at the University of Tennessee’s Center

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