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				<title><![CDATA[Craig,
Acquiring outside capita]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Craig,
Acquiring outside capital is definitely "easier" when the company has customers and revenue. It also opens up more options.
Unfortunately, for some it`s not always possible to wait until that stage.
The bootstrap approach ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Yup, I`d go along with that. :-D]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Yup, I`d go along with that. :-D

All I`m saying is that when we entered into our startup, knowing we`d
be bootstrapping, it was because we saw a highly unlikely situation in
which we`d get outside capital. So we modified our idea to be a
"bou]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Craig,
While I agree that boots]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Craig,
While I agree that bootstrapping is a viable alternative - I&nbsp;sometimes think&nbsp;a better (more descriptive) term would be "shoe-stringing"(?). 
So prompted by your post, I went off to see how others defined the term.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bootstrapping really does work, ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Bootstrapping really does work, too. And after enough years of growth,
demonstrating a viable business and product, it helps when it comes
time to convince someone to lend money.
]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  Unfortunately, the cold, har]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  Unfortunately, the cold, hard facts are that there are no shortcuts to funding a new startup. Forget about grants and forget about free money just because you are a minority and/or disabled. 
  You must do some good old fashioned pulling y]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Najah, I`m in a similar situatio]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Najah, I`m in a similar situation as you. I am starting a business and looking for funding. I`ve just started working with a local Small Business Development Center (funded partially by the SBA) and was told that there are some funding options open to me a[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[This has been really helpful to ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[This has been really helpful to me! I`d thought money was, indeed,
available sort of in a bucket, where you just figure out how to get
into that funding. My sister`s possible idea will be dovetailed to
government services anyway, and now we`ll look more[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Many people each year fall to th]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Many people each year fall to this, and end up forking a lot money into grant research. Do not believe people that there is grant money available over the internet. Your best chance is at your local government. Find out where they are trying to redevelop a[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[nwallace,
FYI 
The Federal Gov]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[nwallace,
FYI 
The Federal Government has two huge grant programs (SBIR and STTR)&nbsp;&nbsp;which were designed for small businesses. However, they are primarily for "technology" development.&nbsp; 
Each major section of the gov]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Thanks everyone for the great po]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Thanks everyone for the great post!
Ron and BizDevGuy thanks for confirming my feelings about these so called grant resources.]]></description>
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