Bootstrapping-Weapon of Mass Reconstruction Excerpt

Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education.

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From Sramana Mitra | Jul 6, 2009

The second volume of her "Entrepreneur Journeys" series, author Sramana Mitra has released "Entrepreneur Journeys: Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction." The book takes aim at a core issue of entrepreneurship: bootstrapping as an essential route along the roadmap to startup success. Mitra showcases a dozen entrepreneurs and their lessons from the bootstrapping trenches. In a world battered by economic crisis, Mitra believes, entrepreneurship is the only sustainable path forward. And core to the success of these ventures is the art of bootstrapping.

The following excerpt includes an interview with Greg Gianforte, a former Silicon Valley software entrepreneur.

The attached Zip file includes:

• Intro Page.doc
• Cover Sheet and Terms.pdf
• Bootstrapping-Weapon of Mass Reconstruction Excerpt.doc

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