How to start a business for (almost) nothing

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Reuters article

"With a DSL line and a $9 Web site, a business can reach customers all over the world."

* Lesson 1: Brand It Creatively (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060701/bootstrapping-l1.html)

* Lesson 2: Switch Business Models On a Dime (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060701/bootstrapping-l2.html)

* Lesson 3: Work From Home (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060701/bootstrapping-l3.html)

* Lesson 4: Get Paid Up Front (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060701/bootstrapping-l4.html)

* Lesson 5: Use Cheap Web Tools (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060701/bootstrapping-l5.html)

* Lesson 6: Get Your Suppliers to Finance You (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060701/bootstrapping-l6.html)

* Lesson 7: Get to Know Your Customers Really Well (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060701/bootstrapping-l7.html)

* The Billionaire Bootstrapper (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060701/bootstrapping-billionaire .html)



Another example of why internet should be CHEAP in SA - the millions of unemployed could easily start their own thing and their marketplace would be not just SA, but the whole world.
 
Very, very interesting post, MaD, thanks for sharing. I often despair at the amount of online entrepreneurship opportunities that are being denied South Africans because of our high connecticity costs.

I'm also disappointed that Mark Shuttleworth (SA's greatest online entrepreneur!) isn't a very noisy critic of our situation and public thorn in the government's side.
 
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