Brydon My company Tech Ranch <http://techranchaustin.com/> (that we bootstrapped up ourselves to a 10k sq food facility) has programs<http://techranchaustin.com/programs/>that are focused on helping entrepreneurs (many that bootstrap their ventures) off the ground. We have a program called Venture Forth<http://techranchaustin.com/programs/venture-forth/>that helps at this stage. As well, as one of the leaders of Bootstrap Austin <http://www.bootstrapaustin.org> we built a substrate of bootstrappers helping bootstrappers. My work in Tech Ranch has been to develop this model- further.
I am working on a book about the model, and have replicated parts of it in Chile, as well as are talking with a couple of other locations about partnering with them using our programs. I studied 36 models of entrepreneur support in building our model- and am personally passionate about helping as many entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground as possible. Although its early for a lot of conversations (we're really building the infrastructure for growing this) I wanted to respond to your email and let you know of pointers to some of the work that we've done- I do believe that traditional economic development thought misses the massive opportunity for helping early stage entrepreneurs- especially bootstrappers- that are not as flashy / well funded but a very important part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. I hope this helps- just now really getting onto the Coworking google group, and thought I'd weigh in on this topic. Thanks, Kevin On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Brydon Gilliss <[email protected]>wrote: > I wrote a blog > post<http://threefortynine.com/2013/10/support-for-bootstrappers/>yesterday > about the concept of economic development supporting the > sweat-it-out bootstrapper. I figured I'd share it here in case others know > of real programs out there already doing variations of this? > > thanks, > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Kevin Koym [email protected] @kkoym http://techranchaustin.com Accelerating Entrepreneur Success -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
