Customer Reviews

Bootstrap Bootcamp Fall 2007

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WORST ADVICE AND DVD I'VE EVER ENCOUNTERED IN MY LIFE!! Do not waste your money on this DVD!!!

My dad bought this DVD for me as a X-mas gift. I watched it with my wife and am infuriated that my dad got scammed into buying this DVD. My wife went to Haas Business school at UC Berkeley and thought this DVD was absolutely ridiculous and laughed the entire time (this is not a comedy!). I thought it was terrible as well, not professional, he talks so much WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING AT ALL!!

One final thought. When people usually talk in front of a green screen, they have another background, not just a green screen!!

TERRIBLE, DO NOT BUY!! It's just his friends commenting on it saying it's the greatest!! All from Austin, TX!!!

I found this to be an extremely informative and useful tool for understanding how great ideas can become a reality. It is an easily understood, step-by-step guide to building a business and taking the right actions at the right time. It has inspired me to re-evaluate my current strategy and look to see if there is a more innovative way to approach my business.

It has also opened my eyes to the different people required to build a business. I was able to recognize my strengths and determine what type of partner would take my business to the next level. Bijoy is brilliant and the tools found in the Bootstrap Bootcamp DVD are easy for anyone to apply to any business at any level.

Intelligent and engaging treatment of the relationship between thinking and doing in turning an inspiration into a concrete business reality. Also discussed are the different styles of thinking and doing embodied in different individuals and the different roles that these individual types must play at different points in the journey to concrete reality. Bootstrap Bootcamp (B/B) offers what is essentially a simple but universal "map" by which to navigate entrepreneurial terrain. Since every entrepreneur faces a unique landscape, B/B provides specific examples to assist in locating the critical registration points.

Although principally prepared with business entrepreneurship in mind, this "map," since it taps universal principals, can be useful for finding one's way in many other processes and relationships.

B/B opened my eyes, not only to new possibilities, but to fixes dearly needed in a current endeavor.

The Bootstrap Bootcamp DVD serves as a timeless tool in every fresh or seasoned entrepreneur's tool-box through their own journey of dreaming, building and growing companies from scratch.

Most Business books and schools teach you what to do once you HAVE a company. This DVD begins with how to make sense of your thoughts at every step from the moment you "think" of starting your own company. The concepts of explaining the journey of building a company A-Z, are simple to follow and very logical once you hear it, see it and practice it.

Highlighted elements such as "talking to the customer" even before you take your product to market, "re-bootstrapping" your company after years of growth and practicing the art of constant innovation have been defined in clear steps with real-life examples to prove the fact that this thought process works!

Bijoy is singularly passionate about Bootstrapping. He's taken a challenging method of starting a business and broken it down into simple ideas that can be acted upon. Many people bootstrap their businesses but few can tell you the steps they followed, how they navigated their way through the maze or how they arrived at the decisions they made. Bijoy has taken a theory and provided a primer that will allow an entrepreneur to map their way through the maze and successfully bootstrap their business.

Bijoy is singularly passionate about Bootstrapping. He's taken a challenging method of starting a business and broken it down into simple ideas that can be acted upon. Many people bootstrap their businesses but few can tell you the steps they followed, how they navigated their way through the maze or how they arrived at the decisions they made. Bijoy has taken a theory and provided a primer that will allow an entrepreneur to map their way through the maze and successfully bootstrap their business.

The vast majority of Great companies (Dell, Microsoft, etc.) were all bootstrapped, but it's an incredibly hard model to articulate. Bijoy has not only articulated it, but he's organized it to share with the world and help other entrepreneurs launch their business in a way that really contributes to their community and society.

As someone who has attended and listened to many of Mr. Goswami's rantings on the bootstrap model and process, I found that the DVD very nicely organized and summarized the stages and concepts of "bootstrapping" He uses several graphics throughout to help explain the process as well. As someone who is engaging in starting a new company, I find the bootrapping model a refreshing contrarian viewpoint to the traditional business school models. I highly recommend this DVD to anyone involved in any stage of organically growing a company.

Bijoy's video is one of the best working models I have seen in quite sometime. I have been a believer in his methods for the last few years. I encourage anyone who is interested in starting down the path to spend sometime with Bijoy and his work.

Demo-Sell-Build repeat...pretty easy to follow once you understand the method. Bootstrapping your organization, in my humble opinion, is a sound path for any business venture. If you choose to go the way of the VC there are still some very important messages here. I would recommend at least listening to the method before you decide as it might help make the decision more sound for you.

For anyone who is already down the path this information will serve to guide you no matter which stage you currently find yourself.

It turns out I was the classic bootstrapper without even knowing it... when I found out about Bijoy's work I realized, in hindsight, that there was indeed a method to my madness. Using his clear terminology and simple conceptual framework, I've been able to wrap a real language around my business decisions and evaluate things based on his golden "right action--right time" approach. Not to give away the surprise ending or anything. Highly recommended for people in search of their own entrepreneurial path... those that wish to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.