Bootstrap: Lessons Learned Building a Successful Company from Scratch

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Summary: From a former Banner Blue employee & web entrepreneur
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, for a multitude of reasons. Ken details the entrepreneur's issues when bootstrapping a company quite well (we bootstrapped our company also, and ran into many of the same problems). I enjoyed reading more about how Ken FELT while the company was growing. As an employee, you don't often know how the CEO feels about anything (Ken is good at controlling his emotions). Turns out he had similar feelings most entrepreneur's do when starting a company.

The book is engrossing and at times reads like a story. Sometimes it's hard to believe, but I know it happened because I had the fortune of living through part of it. I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to be successful at building a company. I'm convinced that the "Banner Blue Way" is the way to run a company and run a short-term project. Many companies later, I'm still running things the way Ken would have done it.

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Summary: Strongly recommended reading for all entrepreneurs
Review: Kenneth Hess was the founder and President of Banner Blue Software which he took from a raw "bootstrap" startup and build it into an established company with a multimillion dollar annual sales record. Bootstrap: Lessons Learned Building A Successful Company From Scratch is the author's true story of successfully creating his viable business from scratch. Filled with risks, rewards, lessons learned the hard way and the fruits of up-close and personal inspiration, Bootstrap is an inspiring read filled with the wisdom that comes from earned experience. Strongly recommended reading for all entrepreneurs aspiring towards achieving corporate success with their own business enterprises, regardless of services furnished or products produced.

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Summary: Wish!
Review: Wish I would have read this book when I started my business.
Presents logical plan to act, rather than react, to the problems
or situations that a new business owner must confront to succeed.
A true guide to making a new business work