The entrepreneurs refrain: Theodore Roosevelt 1910

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

Bootstrapping your Start-up - Top 10 tools

Last weekend I participated in the excellent BarCamp Sydney event. Thanks for everyone who helped organise and participate! Photos here. I moderated a discussion about everyones favorite FREE or low cost tool that helped them bootstrap their work. The Top 10 were:

  • Email
  • Google (Search / Maps / News / Gmail / Apps / AdWords / AdSense / Blogsearch / Earth)
  • Skype / Instant Messenger
  • eBay
  • Open Source Software
  • RSS / Blogging / Wordpress / Blogger
  • PDF
  • Flash
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn

Others that just missed the Top 10 included:

  • eLance.com / rent-a-coder.com
  • Outsourced Development
  • Alexa / HitWise / ComScore / Compete
  • Wikipedia
  • Flickr
  • Digg
  • Delic.io.us
  • Archive.org
  • YellowPages / Whitepages online

The low cost list included:

  • Broadband
  • Cheap Hosting
  • Mobile Phones / Blackberry
  • Seek / Monster / HotJobs
  • eFax
  • Dell
  • Apple (iPod / iBook / iTunes)

Richard McManus over at - ReadWriteWeb has a great article on software for virtual teams - similar vein but more in-depth - its well worth a look

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